Thursday, June 6, 2019

Good God!! Series should be 3-1 -- at the VERY MINIMUM.

Well, it sounds as if at least some of the fandom in Oakland are getting a little bit tired of Golden State lolly-gagging it's way through the 2019 NBA Finals, to which they now trail two games to one.

And it goddamn good and well should be THREE to one, with no game Friday.

Why?  FORFEIT!!

It turns out that, in the fourth quarter of the game, Kyle Lowry was grabbed by a fan in the stands.

Yep, here we go again with Sports Fan Syndrome.

Here's the real problem:  Piece of shit was a (small) part owner of the team, billionaire venture capitalist Mark Stevens, according to VSiN, the Vegas Sports and Information channel on Sirius XM Radio.

You know my policy from when I had to scream down the very Commissioner of the Arena Football League (by the by, we down to about 4-6 teams now in what's left or successored to the league???).  That is a no-bullshit forfeiture offense.

And since it's an owner, the only question now is giving Toronto the championship outright or tossing another game into the mix.  What POSSIBLY (and yes, I speak this knowing my background!!!) could be any even remote justification of a part-owner of the team (and not in the style of, say, The Green Bay Packers) doing this?

So, basically, they win Game Three and get Game Four for free.

Stevens is banned from the NBA for one year, fined half a million dollars.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

If that's not sufficient grounds to hand the championship to the Toronto Raptors right now, at minimum:  the next game played is Game Five in Toronto, Toronto up 3-1.

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