NBA: You Reap What $tern Sows

This one will be shorter, I promise!!

Continuing controversies over calls benefitting Oklahoma City (a supposed travel in Game 1 with the Warriors down 3 with under 20 seconds to go -- but Westbrook might've been calling time out, so there is defense to the referees' non-call) led to me thinking of something to tell Adam Silver.

Adam:  We appreciate the transparency.  That said, this is a direct side-effect of all the bullshit your predecessor pulled on this sport for over 25 years.

Adam Silver, in a means to distance himself from the David $tern era, has ordered published reports on any erroneous calls officials may have made in the last two minutes of contests.  This is one of the reasons the whole debacle which benefitted Oklahoma City against San Antonio came out.

And, at first glance, the night of Game 1 of the Western finals, I began to wonder if the ghosts of Michael Jordan were beginning to enter the mind of Adam Silver...

That said, Steve Kerr (who definitely would know!!!) said that these reports were largely useless and the reports throw the referees under the bus.

Kerr is right.  I do appreciate the transparency -- barring anything really stupid toward slanting the league one way or another, I think Adam Silver is a credit to the NBA.  Just get the calls right (to the best of ability) and we don't have to worry about it.

We had another example of the whole legacy that Silver inherited with the NBA Draft Lottery just held.  Dikembe Mutombo, former Philadelphia 76er, congratulated his old team on winning the first pick, several hours before the lottery was held.

You know it's bad when even an NBA broadcast partner in ESPN talks of a three-year tanking spree coming to fruition:  Philadelphia DID, in fact, win the first pick.

That said, why would there be a conspiracy for Philly?  The conspiracy would be more valid for the team that actually drew sighs in the room when their pick became upper-lottery protected -- the #2 picking Los Angeles Lakers!!

Again, it's not you, Adam -- it's the league you inherited.