What's wrong with the NBA?

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Let me start this article by apologizing to "Big Money Tony," I'm really sorry man, but I'm going to talk about the NBA again.
In fact, you may actually like were I'm going with this one.
I would like to address the joke that has become NBA officiating.
For those who bi-passed game 5 of the Magic and Celtics series let me fill you in. The Magic took game 5 by almost 20 points and made the Celtics look old, again.
The big issue after the game was that Kendrick Perkins was assessed two technical fouls and sent packing. The second technical was Perkins seventh of the playoffs and under the rules of the NBA, he would have to miss game 6.
But, wait! There's more.
The announcers during the game and the analysts after the game assured the viewers that the second technical would have to be looked at by the NBA and most likely rescinded.
Guess what? Today the NBA rescinded the second foul allowing Perkins to play in the next game.
It should be noted that the second technical was very soft and Perkins actually walked away from the situation.
My beef with the NBA is that it's kind of rigged. I mean Perkins was giving the technical and it should have stuck. What power do the referees have? I mean everything they do is put under a microscope and when they have the balls to make a call, it gets overturned.
Prior to game 4 this series was all but done. Now it's a series, but will the NBA let the players play?
They seem to have a death grip on the decision of who gets to advance in the playoffs. Remember the Lakers and Kings series when the refs gave LA a win?
Who can forget when Amare Stoudamire had to sit out a pivotal game because he barely left the bench?
If the NBA wants to know why no one, including Big Money Tony, is watching the NBA, they should look no further than game 5.
The faithful watchers of the NBA, like me, won't stay around forever. I'm tired of having the outcome of important games in history being decided by hot headed refs. I want the game to be played by two teams and have one of those teams triumph over the others.
I guess I'm a dreamer, because I thought sport was one of the most pure things around. I was way off.
That's it and that's all.

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Just think Celtics, if you actually had tried at the end of regulation, you could be resting while the Lakers/Suns go seven.

No need to apologize. I don't root for the NBA, but it's still fun to talk about it.

IMHO the NBA has been rigged since at least Michael Jordan's heydays and possibly earlier than that. It's always been about Lakers/Celtics or whatever the flavor of the year is. What they try not to do is be completely obvious, like letting Lebron James walk in to the Finals. Then again, he played the Celtics, so...

haha Lakers would be back winning the west. Now smack down the Boston Celtics. KB24 for post season MVP!!


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