Nate McMillan: NBA is rigged

He isn't lying about anything but he didn't say its actually rigged. You get advantages sure as a home team etc sure but that goes for other teams as well. Prepping his team for their 1st playoffs with this team on what typically to expect. He should be doing that

 

Misleading thread title. He didn’t say “rigged”

 

Is there a difference between scripted and rigged? The NBA is scripted. Every once in a while a player or team throws a monkey wrench into the machine and the script gets flipped, but the NBA certainly wants certain outcomes and actively manipulates the league to attain them.

 

The average person probably groups the two together depending on your angle. being scripted/rigged has always been relative to how specific outcomes happen and whether people wanted that outcome to happen or not. People try to say this and that are rigged all the time and yet the opposite happens all the time. But regency bias always comes into play. If it was completely scripted and rigged, gambling wouldn't be as hard as it is and there isn't anyone in the world that gets it all right

Is every game rigged/scripted? I'd say no. But point shaving is definitely a thing. There's just too much money involved no to from a number of parties

 

This has been going on for a length of time. The only time it wasn’t scripted was when the Rockets won the cup back to back. We haven’t won since.

 

If you truly know this, how can you NOT question some of Harden’s quitting episodes in critical playoff moments? Especially that game 5 vs SAS without Kawhi

 

It's one thing to script it, another to have the players perform their parts according to the script. With Jordan out of the way, the league could have scripted players like Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, David Robinson, or Shaq to win, but Hakeem and them weren't having it.

 

screw you nate! you know nothing jon snow.

 

Harden isn’t the only curious performance. Just the other night, Westbrook played a terrible game and left 6 minutes before the game ended. Could Westbrook had received an order to stand down and move out of the way? Could him going back to the locker room had been his protest? I dunno. Kawhi had a weird series against the Nuggets. He turned to absolute trash down the stretch. What about LeBron's play against Mavs in 2011? So much I dunno.

 

coach of the year.

 

God I hope so, Houston is a big market, we need that top pick.

 

I'm surprised he didn't get fined more

 

for a big market the media sure hate the city. i wonder what the history is behind that

 

Of course the NBA is rigged. It's downright naive when people still deny this in 2021. They see how money corrupts just about every other part of our society in incredibly insidious ways. From dating to our prison systems to congress... Yet it's so hard to believe that a private, for-profit sports league is willing to do some shady things to make more money?

It's not the WWF. The games aren't fixed (not the same thing as "rigged"), and the players aren't actors... But there are definitely mechanisms in place to make certain outcomes more likely than others, and officiating is one.

 

They hate us for beating the New York Knicks and winning our 1st NBA championship. This isn't going to go away.

 

Duh!

 

You could tell how shocking it was for the players and everyone else. They had no business as a 6th seed winning anything. Now the league let the Lakers fall to 6th seed by n playing Lebron and AD. They barely beat the Warriors.

 

but miguel yordan embarrassed them on the regular in the 90s, much worse than hakeem. but the media can't stop repeating that move where yordan cornered himself and then snuck by the baseline behind ewing and slamma jamma. they truly are an enigma

 

That's a pro wrestling fan not an NBA fan.