Refs...especially if you watched game 6
not to mention you are blind if you think they don't. You know the amount of money they miss out on if a series such as OKC vs GSW had ended in game 5.
I've seen a ton of bad calls in all these games. In fact, I can barely recall any basketball game at any level where there weren't. I know it's just kind of a given that pro sports are "rigged". That's been the conspiracy theory as far back as I can remember. But think about what's really being said. For that to happen:
The networks and/or the NBA, NFL, MLB etc. Commissioners have to tell either the refs or the players (or both) to throw games. If one team is up 3-1 and they want a game 7 out of this series, one team has to throw 2 games. Intentionally lose them. Or, the refs have to make sure that team doesn't win the next 2 games.
Again, I'm fully aware that that's the public perception. I'm also fully aware that if it got out that a given league was having their players or coaches or refs intentionally throw games, that league shuts down immediately and there are a lot of people headed to jail for a very long time. What you guys are claiming in saying pro sports are rigged...and I'm not talking about point shaving...I'm talking about networks or League Commissioners, because that's where it would have to come from, specifically telling refs, players or coaches to throw games. That would involve untold numbers of people over years and years.
Why has it never come out? Why has there not been one disgruntled player or referee in all these years across all these leagues who wrote a tell all book...went to the press...whatever, and said, "I was told by the league to throw these games"?
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