What if a certain company gave you $500K a year to do things their way? Someone with the user name Bruce Bowen doesn't think refs were missing landing space calls, seems credible.
Ed Malloy was the scumbag in Game 6 against the Warriors in which the Rockets lost, Ed Malloy was calling a lot of tacky fouls. After the Chris Paul Game 5 injury, it's like the Referees had a game plan to rig the series, End Game 7, waving off 3 pointers Rockets go 0-27 in 2018 Rockets were up 3-2 in the series
Freedom of Speech is an American Citizens Right to freely speak. Why is the NBA head office acting like dictators, Illuminati Members, Nike, ESPN, TNT all want the Warriors so bad. Skip Bayless, Shannon on Fox Sports are supporting the Rockets Max is saying "hit your shots", how can you when they are undercutting your feet, butt checking, pushing out of bounds, try it Kellerman. Oh Right you never played basketball. Stephen A Smith called out the refs after the game, but changes his tone on First Take, "Keep Quiet and maybe you have a chance" NBA players have zero rights to speak freely, even talking about speaking about other players by name.
As corrupt as the Nba is, they are not stupid. The Nba wants a 7 game series. 2 years in a row. With Foster waiting to destroy Rocket dreams again. A lot of people would watch the Nba and this soap opera. A lot of money will be made in a 7 game series. This is Game of Thrones, Nba style. With the Ice King dieing. Foster is the one to stab the Rockets dreams.
Going one of two ways: 1. It will be horrible. 2. Rockets win and the officiating is OK setting up the narrative that this was all overblown so that when we see Foster later and he keeps us from winning the series, it won't be as dramatic.
Just scrap the whole Playoffs 1-8 seeds in the East and West and have only 2 Teams Or scrap the whole 32 teams and have only 2 teams in the whole league Warriors, Celtics Save the fans time and Money. Have only 2 Teams. Transfer Giannis, Anthony Davis, LeBron James to the Warriors Put a Nike team on the Warriors.
This is what I got -- Thanks for contacting us about the officiating during Sunday’s Rockets-Warriors game. The NBA has a covenant with its fans: the foundation of this sport is the promise that nothing other than the skill and performance of the players on the court will determine a game’s outcome. To preserve the trust of our fans, we make every effort to ensure that league processes and procedures are as thorough and transparent as possible. Our players, coaches and staff conduct themselves in accordance with the highest standards of honesty, truthfulness, ethics and fair dealing to preserve the integrity of the game both on and off the court. You can find more information about the league’s commitment to transparency in its officiating program atwww.NBA.com/official. Thanks again for writing us and sharing your views. Sincerely, Bill NBA Fan Relations
It is a definite "reply" by Silver. I expect a blowout loss so the ESPN crew can proclaim the warriors are "just better" than the rockets and officiating has nothing to do with rockets losing. If I was the rockets I'd keep releasing the data they have to the media. I may go so far as to refuse to play the next time he's assigned to our game. we may lose everything but it will at least expose the NBA for what it is.
No you're not. I'm not a violent person, but I believe I would be driven to fight Steve Kerr and the warriors for how they defended and mocked us in game 1. its a matter of pride. that defense is looking to injure our stars because they know they can't beat us if 100% healthy. its dirty and I'd be looking to injure them right back. and if Kerr wants to pretend he got knocked down in the press conference, I'd knock him down next time I saw him. if silver wants to tell us to shut up by sending foster to blow game 2, I'd release even more data and make him send another hit job for game 3. the more hit jobs you send the more data I collect and release. it may cost a lot of fines, it may even cost morey his job but I'd release everything relentlessly. let the people know how rigged it is.
yup. I would tell James, Paul, and especially ego not to talk or look at the refs. don't raise your hands, don't do anything. don't flop, don't try to get calls. just try to score and get back on D. doesn't matter if you're fouled. the mentality should be that tonight's game is played with no fouls. I would also tell nene that anytime the refs blatantly cheat, he needs to put a warrior on their ass. he can foul out. he can get suspended. but every time the warriors get an advantage from the refs, one of them gets hurt. also, if its a blowout and the NBA got what they wanted, which is to make the rockets go away. I'd tell my players to only shoot in the last 4 seconds of the shot clock and ruin the ratings. lets make the most boring series possible. hit the NBA back where it hurts, in the wallet.
he's made enough money to retire. he can also make millions more with his tell all book about how the NBA finesses outcomes when they want. he can probably do more damage if he wasn't working for an NBA team.
Foster has a chance to make history tonight by making sure Rockets finally win one in the playoffs under his reffing.
Steve Javie was on ESPN a few minutes ago He seemed rather irked about the Game 7 report & 81 missed calls. Called it laughable, biased. And seemed rather emotional. I imagine other refs feel similarly
Just ignore Foster, let the front office deal with the refs. Those technicals cost us as much as the missed calls.
You do realize that TV contracts are negotiated long-term and years in advance, right? This has zero impact on the NBA's "wallet" unless you think TNT and ESPN are going to remember one random 2nd round playoff game when negotiating their next multibillion dollar TV deal. And if by some miracle it did, , more than half of that would come directly out of players' pockets in the form of a lower salary cap. The only actual impact this kind of thing would have is cement the Rockets as the whiniest team in the NBA.
I would think so. Would you believe a team creating a report that shows that they themselves were screwed? Would anyone actually think it's unbiased?
If he sees nothing wrong with that or see a negative pattern going on when it comes to these two teams specifically, he's part of the problem imo
