So what sanctions are you going to put out, Mr. $tern?
For those who didn't find out, Greg Popovich decided to be a basketball coach last night, in direct controvertion of TNT's and David $tern's wishes that Popovich whore out the older Spurs to lose to Miami in a nationally-televised game last night (which the Spurs reserves almost won anyway!!) will be met with "unprecedented sanctions"...
Popovich sent home four of his five starters to rest them from a game in Miami against the Heat, the fourth game in five nights on the annual "Rodeo Roadtrip", and the second straight back-to-back.
Oh, really, Mr. $tern?? Why not just admit that your "sport" is a scripted farce punctuated with the occasional street-fight (like what happened earlier this week in Boston), and eventually leading to Lakers (probably out of the 7 or 8 seed) vs. Heat to showcase the only relevant stars of the league -- your allowed super-teams?
Greg Popovich was trying to conserve his stars' energy because of the annual long "Rodeo Roadtrip", and we're real damn sorry that the last game of that roadtrip was in Miami for national TV.
Wah.
Freaking wah.
Most people don't even consider the NBA to really have started until your Christmas Day television slate of games (which I now think number FIVE?) anyway!
But that's right -- this is NBA ENTERTAINMENT now, isn't it?
Maybe that proposed steel cage match between Vince McMahon and David $tern wouldn't be such a bad idea now.
EDIT TO ADD: Minutes after I posted this article, the penalties were announced: The Spurs franchise was fined a quarter-million dollars for the unmitigated gall of actually considering the health and safety of their players over the entertainment dollars the league makes from their nationally-televised matchup.
Yeah the NBA is rigged, I've known it for years. It was so obvious with the 2002 Lakers/Kings (and the Trail Blazers series against L.A. around that same time). Last year it was so obvious, they made sure they got "King James" a ring (even the first Heat championship, where Wade shot 90-100 free throws was rigged).
ReplyDeleteStern will never admit it's rigged but it never takes much to see that it is, just watch who shoots the most free throws come playoff time, who has to be bailed out by the refs. Last year BOTH Boston and San Antonio were screwed against Miami and OKC. San Antonio in game 7, and Boston in game 2 at the least.