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I have read a lot of theories about NBA being rigged and a little portion of me were convince, so I would like to ask you.

If you believe it's rigged, is it a disadvantage or advantage to us bettors?

Share your opinion and if you have some proof, kindly post.

I don't believe such drama but if it's true then it's advantageous to bettors who knew it and not for those who don't. There are many accusations of it being rigged and some have even deep analysis, you can find it on the web. Here's an example of it: Is the NBA rigged? Yes and no. Deep data analysis of the Last Two Minute Reports (https://media.thinknum.com/articles/nba-last-two-minute-reports-dissected/#:~:text=The%20NBA%2C%20like%20every%20sports,that%20affected%20the%20point%20spread)

If it's really rigged then it matters not to the small bettors but to those high rollers.

There's no disadvantage or advantage for bettors if NBA is rigged, good thing this topic was created as it's very timely.

Try to search this "nba is rig" keywords in google and you'll see a lot of suggestion.

This one is the most popular IMO,
 2007 NBA betting scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal#:~:text=On%20August%2015%2C%202007%2C%20Donaghy,the%20news%20of%20this%20scandal.)

some videos as well, you can watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMBKD7ia8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1JyGCDf0wU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4soQhj2whLc

Disclaimer ; video not mine.

Well, by rigged we're talking about games being fixed, not someone leaking insider information about game predictions to gamblers. The last time someone was busted leaking NBA game info was in 2007 by a referee, people who are supposed to remain neutral:


Which is not the case of NBA games being fixed (the score being predicted). I couldn't find a single case of an NBA game being fixed.

The NBA, and also the NFL, coordinates with the Feds to weed out and catch people who are fixing games, and more often than not it's the players or managers themselves, and this is why there aren't any records of NBA game fixtures in this damning list (https://www.thefixisin.net/games-fixed-worldwide) of game fixtures in various sports. So I wouldn't be worried about NBA matches being fixed. People caught doing that get banned from playing for life.

For the most part I don't think it's rigged but whenever the players make questionable plays like fouling at the last second makes me want to say it's rigged.

If the NBA is indeed rigged I think it's still a 50-50 since you don't know which team would get more favorable calls. This reminds me of the news a week ago where the Lakers presented a case about their players not getting enough free throws during the Nuggets series (https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/lakers-present-case-to-nba-saying-lebron-james-is-not-getting-enough-free-throw-attempts-per-report/).

In which part did those theories convinced you? I don't believe it is rigged and there's not that much advantage if ever it's real. I'm not thinking of something like this as if there's still mafia that controls the league or teams like to go through game 7 if it's likely to be ended within a straight game 4 series. There will be times that there are doubtful calls and actions from each player but I think it's really part of the game and also happens in other sporting events.

If NBA is rigged the benefit of bettors will depend on how much they know about it, just like having an intel from inside the CIA, that would be a blast if you know but also it will depend on the odds on the betting platform.


I'm fond of NBA, I've watched numerous NBA games and to be honest I don't see any rigged or fixed games in the NBA, it is just that referees are human too, they can't see the whole corner of the court. Maybe from that, many people concludes that NBA is rigged or being fixed at some point.

I think certain moments of the game are rigged in a way or another as some calls from the referees are not the same for the other team. I also watched some magnetic rims videos on youtube and I must say that those trows from Curry are from another world...pure skill or pure manipulation , we will never now I guess.

However, tonight is the 1st game of the finals and I'm going with Lakers .

I have thought of that before because there are plays that I've followed before where a team can easily win because of their score advantage or gap but it turns out that they still loose at the end because their opponent catches up . Not just nba but also I noticed this on local basketball games and other sports .

 I don't have a proof but this happens countless times  Being rigged has never been an advantage to the bettors  but it is an advantage to the owners of the sportsbook and casino

No I do not think the NBA is rigged.  I'm curious why you think this and I guess at some point in my "fandomhood" I've pondered the questions but it doesn't shake out when you consider the conspiracies that are out there as to why it may be.  I think the NBA if "rigged" in any sort of way would be when players team up and build these super teams that essentially guarantee a championship but I still don't think this is per say "rigging" the league.

If I had proof I'd post it but I don't think anyone has "proof" of this on either side of the aisle.

Any game in the world can be rigged and NBA is no exception. So it can very well be rigged but no one certainly has a documented proof of it. You canbtry searching Google but whatever information you will get there are conspiracy theories with little facts.

In general, there is no advantages or disadvantages for the gamblers if a game is rigged. But if you are privy to such internal information, that's only advantage for you!

NBA being rigged is a topic that I perceive with insufficient evidence. Although we cannot really know for certain what is really happening back there. I agree that whether it is rigged or not, it does not practically mean as an advantage or disadvantage to bettors since the team who will be favoured is yet to unfold.

I don't believe it's rigged the organization will not allow game fixing it will be the end the organization if the theories are rigged, they are paying millions of dollars to play at their best and people watch to expect both teams to battle for the win, this is just theories and hear says until now the NBA enjoys huge profir and the repuation is still high, if it's rigged I don't know how bettors can make an advantage unless you have an inside tip on who will suppose to win.

There are questionable plays and some questionable flops during some crucial situations on some games but I don't think that alone is enough reason to say that NBA games are rigged, or are fixed for the benefit of those huge bettors inside the game. If it is then I'd say that the match which are fixed are very subtle that millions of fans couldn't notice it. There are some conspiracies to it though I'd like to believe that those things that they are pointing at are mere happenstances and not really intentional.

It's hard to rig the NBA. It's a huge scandal and will surely lose a lot of sponsorship and money on the game.

I've been watching some previous games this playoffs in NBA for what I've seen I think they were not rigged but if you could provide some evidences or ideas that may or can support the theory maybe it could also change my mind. I don't think there would be an advantage or disadvantage for the bettors since we don't know who will won or what will be the outcome only the people who managed to manipulate would have the advantage.

Considering the money earned by players are from the sponsors and tickets, it could be arranged but there are just too many people to coordinate with for it to be rigged, someone's got to whistle. 


When it ends up conspiracy somehow it the person who exposed it will be ridiculed by the media for they are involve. So why would he let out the information for it being rigged. He just got to make money out of it. 

How on earth are you going to rig a game with that many athletes? Come on now, surely you can't be that stupid.

Who knew that all of the world's tallest people were also some of the world's best actors, who don't even show the slightest hint of being paid to take a dive?!

I can understand rigging something like boxing, where all it takes is a knockdown and fake KO to rig the fight, you can't do that in basketball where even the slightest hint of not trying would be caught by everybody in the audience and watching at home.

The only chance could be that the referee is biased, but that's rarely enough to swing a game one way or another.

Are you some sort of wacko conspiracy theorist?

Although there may be conspiracy theories behind such, I doubt that the biggest basketball association in the world would be involve into these kinds of schemes. The game is purely and mostly based on the skill and athletic ability of the player. These players work tirelessly in order to achieve the dream of winning a championship to their team. If they were to sacrifice their hard work just for the sake of money (although most of them are rich already), then they are throwing away their pride and effort.

I really doubt that is the case in the NBA and if it were, then social media will be exploding by now.

NBA is no way rigged, I don't think the pride of the players can survive that kind of cheating. This is not wrestling that is scripted or what, NBA is never rigged generally.
I said "generally not" because just few can be paid to do some dirty shits inside the court either the player or the referee.
Even though that's the case sometimes, there are still lots of reputable NBA players and officials that shows NBA is not rigged at all.

If NBA is rigged, it might have a disadvantage for the bettor if he don't know how the rigging of the games or series are planned.

That's the Tim Donaghy and the animals scandal.

Tim Donaghy claimed he could directly influence an NBA game by 6 points through strategically called fouls. He would target specific players calling fouls on them early in the game to try to shake them and discourage them. He also fed behind the scenes locker room information. Their winning accuracy was 70% to 80%.

Everyone involved profited truck loads of money. Very few if any were able to enjoy it. Many of the gamblers involved had cocaine addictions, health problems and other issues which prevented them from enjoying their winnings. Its an amazing story. Would highly recommend looking it up to anyone interested in gambling.

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As far as the NBA being rigged, I think large segments of professional sports became far more rigged post 2018. That was around the time wallstreet investment bankers bought up a majority of sportsbooks to consolidate and centralize markets. Levels of corruption in sports greatly increased thereafter, with correlation being causation. Not every game is rigged. But sports on average are more rigged than they used to be.

Just like the speculation for other field game like football. We might not really have a prove for the rig but it is still possible because there are people with high interest that can manipulate the games as well

I really don't think that Tim Donaghy can make it. He was on his mind-blowing creation tried to make his own NBA prediction whos gonna win and whos gonna lose the game. He's just more than an NBA manipulator, but He's not and so people can't believe this drama. What he does is truly out from reality, He can't make the ball being controlled by his hands nor they make the game from him.  Is he able to make a bet and win it is just because he has insights who's gonna win, not a thing that he made the result already before the game started?

In my opinion it is not only the NBA that is likely to be rigged, But almost all sports involving sportsbooks and casinos are very likely
to be rigged. Of course this will harmful as bettors, indeed I have no proof that the NBA has been rigged. However, there are some
games in the NBA that do look like rigged, and there have been many articles that talk about allegations of rigged that have occurred
in the NBA. So this depends on the thoughts of each of us, whether to believe it or not. But in sports betting that happens in cycles
large enough money, it is at risk of rigged can happen.

We know that games can be fixed or rigged but its hard to believe that NBA would really be included on it because we can definitely notice if the game had already been fixed out basing off on players movement and gameplay but somehow we can really tell sometimes when it comes to referee judgement where you can notice that it do reside on a certain team when the other team do really have bad calls from ref.Some people
do have that kind of perception but overall games in basketball game is really hard for it to be fixed by someone.Of course, it would really be disadvantage most of the time because we can clearly see on which team
does have higher chance of winning.You can eventually tell if somethings odd to their plays on spot.

On whatever sports, I don't see how it become an advantage nor disadvantage to us bettors since we don't know that the current game we are betting will be rigged. The only individuals or groups who can take advantage to that are those involve in the rigged itself.

Only those who aren't following NBA for many years will say that NBA is rigged. Because just watching the games, you can say that all players are doing their best to win. Maybe there are questionable but it doesn't mean games are rigged.

Yes, there are many ongoing accusations about the rigged matches but some gamblers believe it is completely nonsense. The main idea is to make money for sports bookies but funding the team doesn't mean the management should listed to the bookies. If there is a sudden odds change 1 hour before the game, I remove my bet and go to another one for the mentioned reasons. BTW, it is not only NBA games and all gambling activities involved  sports are subject to cheat, IMHO.  

All would really be just on presumptions but actually it can possibly happen on any sports for its game to be rigged.I agree on what majority been talking about referee calls which sometimes questionable
and when they do make out decision on most crucial part then that's where questions would be flying from its fans.

There are several scandals but so far it hadn't proven out that there are definitely rigged but tendency or chance will be always there.

Favorable calls or opposing ones? we had seen lots after all these years.

There have been talks about NBA being rigged or somehow paid to fix the game, but I guess players in NBA could easily debunk that especially that rings are important to them, it is better to be on hall of fame than have $1,000,000 for giving a game no? Maybe some people are just too fan of the losing side and accuse NBA to be a rigged league of basketball. But I must agree that sometimes refs are kinda bias.

Watching out 2 videos about NBA is rigged and i do somehow get convinced on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXMBKD7ia8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4soQhj2whLc
But overall this would only exclude on several games but not most of the time but we can really say that each sport does have the chance
for its games to be rigged.

No definately not.  Are teams unevenly stacked, yes.  Do small market teams generally have a hard time getting good free agents, yes but its not rigged.  Possibly the draft lottery but definatepy not the games.  These guys are too much to toss a game or season.

I want to remind you that once Maradona said something like this: If you want to see a real soccer, then cancel sportsbooks. <-- I think this words already answered your question. Personally I was thinking the same but at the same time when I watch games, most of the times it's hard for me to believe that games are rigged because every player puts all of their passion and energy into match. And in overall, why do they need to rig matches? There is already made decent money from fans that visit matches.

As an NBA enthusiast for almost around 2 decades (if my memory serves me right), I will likely use the term "wrong officiating" on some games rather than to be called as a whole as "rigged" in general. Refs do a mistake, no doubt about that. I'm not new to these people calling NBA games as rigged but the speculation is only on few games which for me is a product of wrong officiating. NBA's reputation will be jeopardized if there's a thing called rigged here.

Also for players, it's difficult to be drafted in NBA so no way they will participate in dirty games. And even if we say, they want to involve, it's hard to do it in the actual game.

I will give 95% that all games are clean. For another 5%, I called it a different case which likely involves a wrong officiating.

You have a very good perspective on this. And I believe the same as well.
If in case, there is a "rigged" game, it will be very small in percentage and will be taken as isolated case.
I don't think NBA will ruin their reputation as the money at stake is huge on this sports.
It is also hard to fake the game inside the court, if indeed a particular game is rigged. Spectators will see it clearly.

In as much as I believe that almost every sport right has some level of manipulation existing in the system, I don't believe that the games are rigged to such a great or significant level, because in my opinion these games have gotten more complex which makes manipulation becoming somewhat harder by the, when you look at the players having big egos to satisfy, the only the source manipulation you'd expect would be the officials right ?, Then, how much of an impact can one or two officials make in every game the officiate before any form of bias becomes glaring. Some matches would really make you wonder if the NBA is ever a genuine sport, but I'm still very convinced that the level of genuity in the NBA is high in 90+ percentage.

Clearly, there are questionable games but that's an isolated case.

Overall, NBA games aren't rigged. Players are professionals. Businesses are taken properly. Why should they do dirty in the first place? That will be the reason for the NBA to fall but that didn't happen. The league is running strong even with the pandemic.

OP, please list those games in question, and let's try to discuss them each instead.

I think it is rigged but I can't say that without a prove but then again there are a lot of other people saying that it is. All I know is that the players are giving their all to be at the top, I don't know what is happening behind the cameras though. I think it is not rigged but a manipulation that could lead to a team winning with the help of a referee since usually there are controversial calls happening in a game.

To be honest, I am having a second thought of that NBA as being rigged too.

*First , the odds are low means higher chance that the team will gonna win.
*Second, the team is surely a good team no doubt about it.

But just like casinos, we can't also predict sports betting. It may affect to us bettors because we were expecting that the team weve chosen will surely win, however its still part of gambling. The flow of Games can also changed.

I'm not watching NBA games that much especially in regular seasons but when it comes to playoffs especially now, I always watch at least 1 game per day.
I know that there are some questionable calls coming from the referees and some flops coming to the players that make the referees whistle but I don't think that NBA is rigged at all.

I don't see any advantages or disadvantages for the bettors "if" NBA is rigged. We can't really say that it is rigged because we don't have any proofs to prove it and the calls and flops isn't a concrete evidence to the league being rigged.

Although, every sport/business setting have it own political whales which somehow influence or slightly manipulate the result of the game still I dont see NBA game rigged it just that the game can be unpredictable some time.

It will cause more disadvantage than the advantage to we bettors cause if the game is rigged it will literally cause more harm to the game for for the fun and suspense will also quench. 

I think the NBA is closely looking at this issue specially after the Tim Donaghy scandal, and I'm sure they've put some measures on it to prevent this case happening. They might have some people inside legal sports bookies, looking for signs that a game might be rigged by looking at the betting pattern. If they saw some suspicious betting, specially wild odd swings and people butting huge, then there is a possibility that sometime is not right.

Yes, there are a lot of questionable calls in the NBA but I don't think the referee is colluding with organised crimes, or the players themselves. Might be some coincidence though, but I'm sure if there is one, the NBA might have caught it already.

I don't think it is. The worst possibility is that there are a handful of fixed games. But even that is hard to believe. There are definitely a number of unfair calls. I don't know if we could consider them evidences of specific games being fixed. What I know for sure is that even if a game is being fixed, it must involve majority of the players and not just those in the management or coaching staff. Otherwise, it might not turn out as agreed.

There are so many stories of this kind. I can remember the story revolving around the death of the father of Michael Jordan. It was said that some mafia group killed him because Michael didn't perform the way they agreed and a huge amount of money was lost in the process.

Anyway, bettors like us who don't have access to the terms and agreements of these fixed games, if there are any, won't be affected much. We still choose according to our own analysis.

I don't think its true Michael Jordan is bigger than anything in the basketball he can expose this and he can run after these so called mafias it's just all rumors, if you are Jordan and you have the money and the influences no mafia can get away with you and if you are a good son you will not get a revenge if you are capable to give justice to your love one.

No one run after mafia, that's a big illegal organization, you can get killed if you go against them with the deal, if Michael had a deal, he has to follow, and if he followed the deal, that would say that NBA is fix or rigged.

Whatever it is that is rigged, of course it will be detrimental to many parties, I personally don't know the issue, but if I remember where there are some NBA teams that I think are suspicious. For example, in the last season team A went down and team B was very successful, but after the season changed something very drastic happened, such as the reverse of team A was very successful and team B went down.

From that incident, it seemed impossible for a team to change drastically like that so quickly. Indeed, I don't know the problems that exist in the NBA but I just feel like it's something weird in the NBA I think. I'm sorry if this statement is a mistake, it's just something I experienced when betting on the NBA, maybe it's just my suspicion and I hope no one is rigged there.

You can't call the whole competition is rigged , too much factor needed to consider NBA as a whole being unfairly played. It's just general conception no matter it was MLB, NFL or any other well known competition where betting takes part ... anybody could claim it's as rigged with only few evidence, pointing this and that incident, correlating each of them and there you go a package of MAKES SENSE theory while actually nothing but several fixed matches which you can't control over that sometimes .

So, no. I believe it's BS.
Rigged sometimes? Yes possibly. This world has a dark place.

I'm not really a big fan of NBA but i think I've watched some Hollywood movies where the story telling about how a bookies or a big bettor approached influential players that could make a huge difference in the game and offered them loads of money in exchange of to not scoring much and play as awful as possible.
Could be true in the real life though, idk.

I have just seen sometimes "strange matches" were players try to make only 3-pts meanwhile other team continue to make 2-pts on every play.
But I am not able to judge their gaming strategy.... and however I don't think it's easy to rig a multibillionaire industry like NBA since you should involve too many people.
Ok there is always the possibility that someone can take advantage from a specific situation as described before by other posts.
Corruption is everywhere we are all aware of it. but this doesn't mean an entire competition can be rigged.

The idea is, if the top management is trying to rig the NBA, the whole competition will be rigged. Players doesn't need to be involved as it's hard to dictate them, and it's not safe for them, but we have the referees, if you also see some strange calls, then that prove somehow this league could be rigged.

I remain skeptical about these possibility since it's a very big competition, a lot of interests, sponsors, camera everywhere, replays, tv shows etc etc
Always the top management could be able to rig a match or an entire competition, but without any evidence it's just a conspiracy for my point of view.

PS in Italy (my country) we had in the past some matches rigged in Serie A football by the same Team.
It was very clear that something was going to happened since the proof collected were to strong to be just a casualties like "a strange call" made by a referee ;)

with all the times that I have watched NBA there are times(a lot) where players would make very questionable plays(just like what ralle said) or referees making questionable calls that would eventually cause the other team to lose the game. I myself don't really believe that it is rigged but would really make you wonder sometimes especially if players making too many questionable plays or referees making questionable calls.

Well I would not be surprised if it were rigged. The only problem I see here is that we don't have the proof that it is so. Only the ones playing the game, refereeing the game, administering the games would know if there is rigging happening. Basketball can be rigged and one player with ill intent and a lot of cash will be able to do so. But of course, without evidence this is all just speculation and hear say that we here on this thread is sometimes very good at doing.

I have pretty much the same opinion about this! Bottom line is that this world has many dark places, and of course many things happens in there, we can only speculate about that. Some games here and there can be rigged, and it's a question how, by referees, or by some players, but in the same time every mistake they make can be unintentional! Mistakes happen after all, even to the best ones! When someone gets in conspiracy theories he sees them everywhere! Just to add that this is not the case just with NBA, if you type any sport - rigged you will get many results.

It's hard to prove if the NBA is rigged just because of referee's errors and it's not only NBA other sports have their own share of referees error, although there were reports in the past that the league has insinuated that they favoured team that were trailing in the league, but it's just all hearsay, the NBA will crumble if there are verified reports that the NBA is indeed rigged.

This is a billion dollar business and reports of NBA rigged will definitely harmed the league, and if it's rigged then the high rollers and those who gets tipped will be favoured.

NBA used to be a center for match fixing in the past. After several players being suspended for points shaving and as the income of players kept on rising, the fixing of points by player is on decrease as it's not worth the effort for the risk. Basketball is a fast paced, team game which is hard to be fixed by individual players. There had been individual cases like of referee Tim Donaghy who used to bet on matches he was referee on.
Another opinion for it to be called a rigged game is it's becoming more like an entertaining event rater than a real competition where players and officials would try to make a show for the viewers more from activities not related to the game. Some people even argue that some of the drama there are pre-planned.

I don't think the NBA is rigged. There are just too many teams with so many players and other personal involved. So many people depend on the NBA, it would just need one of those people to come forward with some proof and everything would be over. Also what are the chances that all these people are working so close together? Usually if we see rigged matches in sports, it's 1 or 2 teams involved and the referees. The NBA is just too big to be rigged in my opinion.

Don't think either but still have possibilities and although it's impossible but still there are article showing about those rumors check it below.

Here: https://www.quora.com/Have-any-NBA-games-been-fixed
And also here:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/calvinayre.com/2019/02/20/sports/nba-didnt-want-find-match-fixing-donaghy-scandal/amp/

But I don't believe this totally since nothing has been proven yet so best not to bought those stories while there's no verification given if the said fix matching event really happen.

Exactly correct mate,the Organization is too big to be controlled perfectly so things will happen badly sometimes.
either intentional or not,the thing is there are so many things need to prioritized and these rigging thing must be bring into
 attention to make accurate actions.
yeah we cannot prevent issues but at least there is a necessary action for violators.

I think that any sports can be rigged.Serie A in Italy a major competition in Europe was badly rigged in the 2006 scandal.Even NBA can be rigged through corrupting players,coachs and referees.These last ones have a lot in their power to make the game end as their liking,I have always said that and I believe this is still the case in all sport betting incuding NBA where a lot of money is bet on.

The NBA is probably not rigged as others might imagine or suspect. The NBA is not just a domestic basketball league. Although it is basically made-up of American and Canadian teams, the league is an international league.

It is easy to rig local leagues or games but very hard when it comes to international leagues where players are popular superstars who are very influential and rich. Do you think owners, managements, and superstars in the NBA will accept rig pays? I don't think so. It is very expensive if that happens that it might not be worth to rig NBA games.

The question should be "Do you believe NBA is still rigged?" because it already happened before with the case of former referee Tim Donaghy. After that huge scandal, I think NBA has tightened up making it difficult to influence the outcome of the game. Someone brought up the issue on Lakers not getting enough fouls during the West finals and it's just one of those days where calls could be 50-50. Sometimes I think NBA have their own rule book of what is a foul or travelling and what isn't.

I don't think that NBA is rigged because Miami is an underdog team and they came from the bottom, and maybe they're just lucky to reach the Finals because the Raptors was out.

On the other hand, Lakers has the no.1 spot in Western Conference, and this is obviously a mismatch in the Finals.

If you think that it is an easy to win to LA Lakers the try place your bet on it because that is really an advantage to us bettors. We already had an perception towards what team will become the Champion in 2019-2020 NBA season. This is probably an easy money for us bettors if you put your trust on the LA Lakers coaching and roster.

I don't believe NBA game result is rigged.  I wonder why people think that NBA game is rigged.  Little that we know that some losses by strong team is possibly due to their strategy or condition of the team players.  Players often travels from one city to others, the fatigue factor of traveling before the game may possibly affect the condition of players.  Sometimes even the best shooter of the league miss way too much and sometimes the least percentage shooter often hit the basket. So this little factor affects the overall result of the game which somehow disappoint viewer especially those who thought that their stronger team will win.

Indeed, any sports can be rigged. I would not reject that idea that there are really possibilities for this to happen. But as you have said, these scandals are still unproven and with the fact that NBA is a huge organization it will be really challenging to get it rigged. With the absence of facts and hard evidence about these issues, all we are going to have are pretty much assumptions.

Simply but correct,NBA has been very popular and like their Dream team in Olympics the whole world is looking at the institution as world class.
so issues might happen sometimes but it doesn't necessarily means the whole team is rigged.
we cannot tell it totally but at least it is not tolerated?
reporting is needed for them to be cleared .

There's part of maybe rigged but like what you have said it's too big to completely being rigged at all!

There are lots of involvements with those examples, players and managements plus the officials and commissioners who can't say
who's who but partly there are people behind who capable to control such matters.

I would say it's rigged but not totally. What I mean is some part of the game is questionable even though audiences saw what happened but referees didn't do anything or suddenly called a foul or something when the other team is just purely acting(flopping). I think it's kind of common in all kinds of sports and probably the main reason is all about the money.

There are indeed lots of assumptions or presumptions floating around into some particular games in the past about on being a rigged one but until now the organization haven't faced up any serious charges about those claims which simply means that those would just remained unjustified but for us fans we can really tell if theres something wrong.

Why would really need to stressed out ourselves to answer up the question if NBA games can be rigged? They wont just easily risk out this multi-billion kind of industry or business by just
letting these possible fixed games happen.

Of course its possible but you would really have a hard time on proving it.

Very true. NBA's reputation is at stake if ever they will do such a thing. For me, it's difficult nowadays to rig games as there are so many people watching and analyzing every player's move so players will have to be very careful to avoid losing their job.

Also heard this kind of accusation on our local league in the Philippines, the PBA but it's very hard to prove. 

NBA has already build it's reputation and there are referees who have been doing their jobs for more than 20 years, that's just one referee alone. So we all know that humans are prone to make mistakes and they themselves admit that sometimes they make the wrong calls in crucial times and people interpret this as cheating or referee rigging the games. So I don't believed referee are intentionally influencing the outcome of the game to give favor to someone or some groups because they have a huge bet in the game.

Theres a good argument to never placing too large an amount on one bet because of this possibility but I dont believe most games are rigged though erratic performance can occur as if players had thrown which makes it hard to say, I do believe hard drinking and tiredness, poor performance which is not excusable for a professional is way more common then deliberately losing.    The other factor is to be careful of games where the result is not as important, on both counts that can more easily lead to erratic results and I would reduce size on occasions I dont think the team overall cares as much, motivation is a big factor imo.

If that's your only basis then you can't call it a rig.

A rigged game is 100% sure to win. What you are pointing was happening at both teams. And flopping is a tactic and strategy to trick the referees especially at their blind spot. It's not a tool for a rigged game.

Even how good the flop is, it won't give an assurance that the supposed winning team will win on that match.

I would believe with bias referees and obvious foul plays but never been called to be foul. They could be paid referees but not entirely the NBA management itself. Maybe in some league, just before the start of the season, there's already a winner and champion in the listing but I think NBA isn't going like that. One stain could be spread easily if it's real. This is an entire business and bread and butter of many NBA athletes and staff so if most fans will know that it is or if they do it as what we think, support for them will get lower and it could entirely lose them business gradual.

Many said that Lakers will be champ this season as they offer that championship to Kobe Bryant the Mamba, and it looks like they are going to that path with the way they dominated the Heat. However, I don't think despite of the injuries of the Heat now, they will be sweep in the series, if Heat wins in game 2, then maybe you guys would think something about the topic.


Not if no one finds out, what we are saying here is all about theories only as it's not proven they are rigged.

NBA + Bookies = BIG MONEY!

NBA is not rigged, it is just that the players are not that conditioned towards the situation and the sudden continuation of the season.

We didn't expect that the Miami Heat will enter the 2019-2020 NBA Finals because they are in a number 5 spot in the East. But they are underdogs and they really worked so hard as a team to defeat Pacers, Milwaukee (no.1 spot) and Celtics which was in a momentum that time. Still Miami Heat dominated them, some are saying it was rigged because we don't expect a certain team to enter the Finals that fast.

Also, Lakers is almost eliminated but still they handled Denver Nuggets easily.

Impossible thing to do if there's someone looking for what so called 'justice' to prove the suspicion of certain competition being rigged and in this case it's NBA.

Sometimes when the event against you and inadvertently coincidence with something that you have found suspicious so wrong .. that time the conspiracy theory in your head pumping up to your brain and guess most of the conspiracy theory that ever existed just showing off their stupidity lol.

So yeah I'm not a big fan of those non sense theory/ speculation.

It's a rumor if the source is just those "many". We can see how the Lakers was performing with their last games and I think they're eager to get this season's finals. I mean, who's not eager to get the championship for this year and it's kind of unfair to Heat if that's like that. I don't really think that NBA is like that.

Yes, it's all about speculations and rumors.

Well there is always the possibility that some of the games are fixed, however I find difficult to believe that everyone in a team is on it, what most likely happens is that one or two players are in it and they lower their performance for that particular game to ensure the opposite team wins, this is not so difficult as some games are very close and just failing a few times can be the difference between winning or losing.

However when it comes to the big games I do not believe a single one of them to be fixed since there is too much at stake for the players to lose on purpose.

I do not want to suspect any player of fixing games but I have often seen the players doing strange things and they might not be fixing for match winner but there can always be things like shooting poorly and playing the game slowly to cover the under-over bets.

Then I spare a thought that they are getting paid such massive salaries and even the coaches make a hefty amount of money so there is no reason for them to fix a game for extra bucks. I have seen strange things happen that often make me feel like the game is rigged and even at times the whole NBA is rigged but that is actually nothing but my anger at loosing a bet. Teams play a slow game at times like they would take all 24 seconds on the clock to make a shot and things like that but that might be fatigue or something.

Referees are certainly fixed and actually there are some refs that don't like certain players as you might recall a ref was suspended after he handed over needless fouls to a player who was just sitting and laughing at the poor calls. I also often see that refs make very bad calls to make a particular team win which might be because they have bets on them or maybe they are contacted to make the team loose.

In the series Clippers vs Nuggets I saw some horrendously bad calls and although I did not bet on any of them I felt bad for those who bet on the Nuggets but somehow they actually won the series so I mean the teams are not fixing games but refs surely are rigged at times and the only possible way to remove these bad practices is actually including more replays and allowing team to challenge 5 calls per game.

rigged as in being fixed ? just like soccer can also be fixed, I believe it is still possible for basketball too but it might be very rear in countries and league like the NBA. Unless the parties involve maintain a very high level of trust and secret. NBA have boards that monitor closely this and anyone found guilty of this might lead to a very strict sanction but all the same, this does not mean it is impossible

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NBA, similar to each game association on the planet, has been blamed for being fixed on various occasions in its set of experiences. Longer than 10 years prior, the NBA was managing Tim Donaghy, a ref purportedly wager on games he administered and settled on decisions that influenced the point spread. All games are fixed, as cheating has been made illicit for quite a while. The games where it is close to difficult to find on the off chance that somebody is or isn't cheating are.. Tennis, Soccer, Basketball and Cricket. Almost three years after that scandalous tweet, James Harden and the Houston Rockets were reproachful of NBA authorities, calling them out for assumed terrible brings in the Playoffs against the Golden State Warriors a year ago and this year. who is one of the refs that will work the NBA Finals this year, is eminently at the head of the rundown for mistaken non-calls per game, averaging 2.5 INCs during the standard season.

While Kirkland positions easily among the broad rundown of officials, Zarba is directly in the last 25, and Tiven positioned second to last. That implies they fall under the refs who perceive fouls more than erroneously "allowing the players to players," as per the NBA's self-investigation.

I have read similarities article but non was able to convince me beyond any reasonable doubt as most scenario that get attributed to the gane getting rigged are just coincidence that can't be understood.
If you watch soccer more often you'll realize similar event occurs and you'll begin to think the referee was bought.
Lets assume the game was rigged then it should had been exposed by now as it'll be giving a negative reputation the to the sport.

I never think that they can really fix NBA games. Each and every possible chance can occur and they cannot even predict nor control if they would score once they've shot the ball. It would be obvious once the NBA would be rigged, you can see some players continuously throwing the game. NBA can only be rig in playoffs but never in quarter finals nor semi-finals. Why? It would simply costs more. Remember that as an NBA team goes further onto the elimination and finals, their salaries and earning would be bigger and bigger. Hence, a team couldn't simply be paid that easily to rig a game that would matter for them.

There will always be accusations like this in sports, it's possible but I don't want to believe that it's actually happening in NBA. It will be a lot of disappointment to the fans specially if their star player is involved. We respect the hardwork the athlete give just by winning a ring. Their competitiveness will hinder them accepting the game to be rigged.  And if it will be exposed, NBA lose will the trust of it's people. I just don't think the risk is so small for them to rigged a game. Maybe a ref or one player can be talked with it, but everyone in the franchise knowing that they need to rigged the game will be problematic, it will be exposed no matter what.

Hard to believe without a strong evidence yet cause everything can happen in sports.

If you know a lot about sports, then you must know how players get too physical or soft, can't even blame the ref for calling fouls due to a flop that's not even a reason to call the whole league a rigged or whatever negative that describes it in general. We can't control what will happen in the next 5 seconds in the court, you can't tell refs who to watch with, and the whole system was just made by a man. I don't really think that the biggest basketball league will sell their reputation. Not really.

Of course, it is very detrimental to all parties if there is indeed a rigged in the NBA happened. But as long as there's no evidence,
I don't believe rigged is happening in the NBA. It is true that many accusations against players and referees were involved that
the game was rigged, but as long as there is no evidence, I believe there are no rigged games in the NBA. Because we wouldn't
enjoy the NBA game if we had negative thoughts like that.

I do agree, NBA will never excite us or enjoy it anymore if this is rigged,

As long as there is no evidence we can't tell that it is rigged, the ref's is indeed have their own bias or favorite team to win but it is already known even before, it is not actually stopping those team who are better especially if they are serious aiming for the top.

possibly it was done before but for now? I don't think so because the NBA players attribute to basket are monitored basing on their performance and if found out that they are not doing their 100% best then we can say that the match or game was being rigged and the team doing it will get penalized that is based on what I have heard on some NBA fans basketball bettors.

Chances are huge that the NBA is rigged because we know how huge money involved in betting and as what other users had mention that it is advantage for those who know which team will going to win for now and later and when will going to last the match if it is a series match. I can't exactly tell about this actually and are also reading about some users input regarding on the OP's post.

I think whether it is rigged or not betting should still be done and I can still win even if they will going to do it or not.

They have to prove beyond doubt that it's really rigged all sports have their own shares of bad officiating and basketball and boxing has a lot of it
but it doesn't mean that the sports are rigged, it's a billion-dollar business and that sports empire will collapse if it is proven rigged and many will lose their jobs.

To respect the whole association of NBA ,what i believe is there are some occasion that bad calls happen from the ref in which i believe to be a intentional ,consecutive wrong calls are not a mistake.
But let us not call that to be standing as the whole organization like NBA.

Even in our country there are issues like this,that ref are being paid or the start player is setting to win the opponent for Big amount of money.

i still have belief that NBA is a pure institution and still Being fair to majority of the games.

Athletes train really hard to be able to play in the NBA. However, I believe there are sometime that they have extend the game to be able to make profits from their audience and exposure especially during the pandemic where they won't earn as much from seat tickets. I guess it's normal for players to make bad calls and fouls during crucial moments,  but there are instances referee calls are questionable.

Maybe there are only few occasions that the game is compromised, for whatever reason it may be. But I don't think players will want their game to be rigged as it is also difficult to fake the game inside the court. Fans and their endorsers will be affected if in case it is proven that at some point that particular game is compromised. The reason why it is only rumour. Their reputation is at stake if in case something valid goes out.

I don't think it is rigged but I guess there are manipulations going on.

There are a lot of fans of this game and pumping them for a game they wanted to happen is a great thing since that would mean money for the association. If there is an advantage when it comes to betting, I guess the whales who are actually betting are the ones in the advantage and I guess they are also the reason there are manipulation happening behind the courts.

Considering everything but there's always the right amount of money that will be offer to do this right? players / refs or even the coaches can rigged it up if a good amount of money is being offered in front of them.
It's undeniable that in some cases the game can be compromised knowing that there are some rich mafias who can take the amount to the maximum level and pay everyone's who's involve inside the game.
Players may not be interested but if there's already existing event that same scene happened how can they say no if someone who are higher or more influenced than them are part of this business.

I don't think that the whole NBA is rigged maybe some of their games might be because of some offers made to players.
It is just my theory and I don't have any proof but I think there are others who also think that it is possible.

It might be fixed in such a way that the referee will make calls in the favor of the fan favorite team because the more viewers the better they sell the game and profit massively! This year they tried their best to sell a game between Lakers vs Clippers and the refs did their best to make the Clippers win but they were just too awful and I also saw some poor calls against the Rockets.

They might have et the referee in such a way that the majority of favorable calls go against the bad teams and hence favorites win more, I remember how LeBron James was called for fouls years ago and now they won't give a foul to him.

We will never have a proof or no one have a proof, otherwise, NBA was already sued for rigging their games.
It's just a theory but that theory has some kind of reality, maybe for the non bettors this isn't a big deal but for us who are betting on NBA, it is.

These are all speculations but they cannot come out with a proof of course media will speculate but they cannot sustain it, the sports commission will do an investigation and many heads will roll if there is cheating going on in this sport, no powerful mafias can ruin the NBA who is the giant in sports.

I don't believe this kind of nonsense because if they had so, they won't gonna pay this ref to manipulate the game. if the game is rigged or whatsoever, they won't gonna need to pay him.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Tim_Donaghy_in_2010.jpg

This is the reason why they are now often report some uncalled fouls or violations to the officials after the games. because those referees can't be trusted for some reason and the replay of the games will say it all.

Based on the report we can read like this one https://basketballforever.com/2019/02/19/disgraced-nba-referee-tim-donaghy-admitted-he-would-fail-polygraph-if-asked-if-he-fixed-nba-games

It was only the referee can rig games not the organization, but who knows if Tim Donaghy was just the fall out guy to save the reputation of the NBA, imagine how big of a money they will lose if it's proven they are rigging games by directing the refs to handle the business.

The viewers aren't idiots in this sense, and if any kind of such referee were to pop out again, a controversy would once again pop up so I doubt there would be a repeat of such blatant rigging. Still, I found a few articles that argue that referees actually make questionable judgements, just to make the season last so they can be paid more so who knows. At the very least, they won't be able to rig a game so much that one side would win, but a few bad calls here and there and they can just blatantly suck it up to making a "mistake".

Still, if you were to view it in an objective way, why would referees need more money when they officiate such games with big salaries right? I'm not particularly familiar with the amount exactly, but officiating especially in NBA should net you quite a lot already, doesn't make sense to risk getting kicked out and your reputation getting blemished to add a bit more to that.

Articles I read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/asqkjq/serious_you_guys_really_think_the_league_is_rigged/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/asqkjq/serious_you_guys_really_think_the_league_is_rigged/)
https://media.thinknum.com/articles/nba-last-two-minute-reports-dissected/#:~:text=The%20NBA%2C%20like%20every%20sports,that%20affected%20the%20point%20spread. (https://media.thinknum.com/articles/nba-last-two-minute-reports-dissected/#:~:text=The%20NBA%2C%20like%20every%20sports,that%20affected%20the%20point%20spread.)
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-NBA-rigged (https://www.quora.com/Is-the-NBA-rigged)

The very easy answer for that is they are greedy, they want to make more money as they were never satisfied. It's human nature but doing it in a bad way is not good as it affects the integrity of the game, and one thing, getting a good salary does not guarantee a person will do his job honestly.

I agree with what @stadus said.
A human is never satisfied, and even they get big salaries from their jobs, they will search for the other way to make more money.
Only people are honest and have integrity, which can do their jobs without greed because they know that the will to make more money will never be enough.
Rigged or not, we never know because they will not tell the public about that unless there is an investigation in that committee.
But I don't think that the person in that circle will let the investigation because they will keep that secret.

To give us an idea on how much NBA refs are making, we should read this.
How much does an NBA referee earn? (https://www.essentiallysports.com/basketball-nba-news-what-is-the-salary-of-an-nba-referee-how-does-it-compare-to-nfl-mlb-nhl/#:~:text=Unlike%20the%20salaries%20of%20the,game%20or%20%24250%2C000%20per%20year.)

Big amount already but lower than what NBA players are making, and if NBA players who got a good contract can still be broke, it could happen to refs as well if they are not living according to their income, and that would result them to make illegal activities as they have all the opportunity to manipulate the game.

Nope there are some cases in games but that doesn't mean it is the whole NBA who is being rigged.in all organization there are leakages and bad member but this is not the whole congregation .
NBA is still fair and truth in each games specially now that the championship is near to end.

What if I told you flopping is part of their strategy to doesn't make the "obvious"?

Yeah, I know it's a 100% win but a lot of factorsf for making the game to look as rigged. One example is the referees turning blind eyes a.k.a. "throwing the game" when there's something wrong. People doesn't really care if it is a rigged game or not as long as they win and that's enough for them.

NBA is very famous around the globe and the chances that it is being rigged is very less knowing that it can surely affect their reputation if they are going to do it as  there are many bettors or followers in NBA games.

I understand those bettors who says that NBA is being rigged but I don't think the same because it is very obvious if they are going to do it and their sponsors will not like it for sure.

I do not actually believe the NBA is being or can be rigged. It's a great league and very popular around the globe. Their reputation is at stake if such things happen.
However, if it's being rigged then it's definitely of immense advantages to bettors who know of it. If it's being rigged, then you're at least 90% sure of the result of every game which puts you at an advantage in placing your bets.
Just like every other thing that's got an advantage also has a disadvantage, means that if it's being rigged and of course with only a small percentage of bettors aware of this, it put the remaining larger percentage at a disadvantage in placing their bets.

Knowing these information would always come with a cost and you cant just see this information casually if ever NBA is rigged.Who knows right?

Every sports events can be rigged but I do agree into the point that they wont just be really that too desperate on making out fixed games because they do
know that reputation is at stake.

But there are really some situations that you can really have the thought specially if the referee is making some bullshit calls.

If it's rigged, it means the outcome of the matches is already fixed, then those who get the insider info about such games are sureshot winners and we are at a disadvantage because it is something that's already been discussed and decided between a few people but we don't have any idea about what is going to happen.

I don't really believe NBA is rigged! I mean, are you talking about shot to shot? Or the free throws? Or the teams that win the match(es)? Tbh, these basketball players are paid super handsome amounts to play those matches in the basketball courts, how can their ^dignity^ be even bought when they have already been paid such hefty amounts before?

That is a lot of money for the referee. But as I said, the human will never satisfy with that, and they will use the other way to get more money.
But I think that will not make sense if the referee manipulates the match because they are bond with the rule, and if they do that, I think they can get fired by the association.
The income between the referee and the player will be different because the player is a star at the stadium.
And no matter if that referee is famous and has a fan, that will not be bigger than the player, so the player's income will still be bigger.

What do you think about the Lakers vs Heat game 3? Was it rigged to extend the series?

Davis who are very consistent all in the playoffs has suddenly not so effective in this game, he was into early foul trouble and he committed many turnovers. I don't know exactly his average but I guess that was like 30+ points but in this game only scored 15 points.

I agree, the NBA just can't be completely rigged. Maybe there is one or two bad apples but the hole NBA is just too big to be rigged. The money in NBA comes from the fans. Imagine if the news break that a team is losing on purpose just to make some money when betting. I am pretty sure non of the fans would actually watch the games anymore, buy anymore tickets to live games, will nevery buy any merchandise again, and so. It would be the death sentence to a team if such information would become public.

All is fair, it's played fair, maybe I don't see anything wrong because I am bias and maybe you see something wrong as you love the Lakers to win.

Everyone has their off night, everyone, including Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan which are already legendary in the NBA, so I call this as just an ordinary game, that's just my own observation though.

Ineffectiveness of a player to a single game does not mean that there was some agreement to rigged the game. For team like Miami and Lakers, I won't believe that they will allow themselves to rig any final game. This is a championship series, there we 4-0 sweep on NBA Finals' history, it's a clean win for Miami, they have their own talents and skills they can still win over Lakers despite their experience. It's not rigged, congrats to Miami, but if I were to ask, I think Lakers will take the championship this season.

Well, I respect your opinion, it's just that I'm seeing something that's what I lay some proof that the two best players in the team were having a bad night in terms of turnovers. Lakers had 19 TO, and 13 of that are coming from the best two players, that doesn't look normal for some people, like me. lol

Yes of course, but this is different IMO, the refs are in favor with the Heat in this game, that's obvious.

really 4-0 ? wow but i guess that is more suspicious and many fans will say its riged than those who have a critical wins but we can also see it on thier game play .

if its too obvious that players are not cooperating to win then that can be a sign that its riged but if the game looks verry normal , that wont be suspicious .

they say gambling is riged but nba isnt really a gambling but its a sports although many people likes to use it for gambling  . nba management are aware with that , so who knows?

TBH, if NBA is rigged, then:

- Every person who wins a merchandise in the game is fixed

- Every person who gets a chance to play basketball on the court before the start of the game and between halftime and wins some stuff is fixed

- Every person who wins an autograph of their favorite player is fixed

- Even NBA draft lottery is fixed

But to that death sentence thing, I never heard such type of punishments ever given to any team ever before but yeah, if not in a literal meaning but the way people will treat those players of that team, then yeah it'll definitely be worth a death statement to those players who would have sold their dignity for some money. I bet players get paid extrmely high enough they can't really be bought by anyone else under any circumstances.

I also do think so. The game's not rigged and it's crucial for the teams and they'll do their best to get the ring this season as it's something special because it's on the bubble and we're on the pandemic. The situation is different from any other championships due to the world's condition. Others will start to think that this is rigged if the game is able to reach until game 7. But that's no basis at all, most of the championships are very mental and physical draining, it's like they are swaying from both sides of the seesaw.

Well, this is such a hot and intriguing topic considering some of the NBA fans are thinking the NBA finals series is being rigged.
Some even says, the NBA purposely let the Lakers lose game 3 because of this.
 https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/10/nba-finals-ratings-record-low-audience-game-1/ (https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/10/nba-finals-ratings-record-low-audience-game-1/)
Extending the series and avoiding the obvious mismatch could boost the audience in the coming games.

Rigging an NBA game comes with a lot of factors, and one thing I noticed of how the game is being rigged is through;
1. Coach - will get rid and change of his normal rotation.
2. Players - will deliver such bad game like they don't normally do.
3. Referees - manipulating violation calls.
There is no fixed score, but a fixed winner.

Nevertheless, I still have more than half of my faith that NBA isn't rigged.

Try to look into those youtube videos on that Game 3 highlights or full game which you would really see majority of comments talking about this Game 3 is cooked.

I cant really blame them yet i do still have the doubts even some said that it is impossible for rigging it out but you can really differentiate the performance of Lakers players
when they do play in game 1 and game 2. You can see the energy plus the unpredictable passes and rotation but this time we havent seen such thing.

Where you can really presume out that theres something wrong with this game.We cant really blame our minds on having those thoughts yet we've been expecting a sweep
here basing of between the capabilities of Lakers plus having an injury trouble team of Heat.Who would expect?

The last game shows that there is something that happens in the NBA system. It was a straight accusation talking about that it was cooked already, and yeah they can deny it for sure but we know and somehow the reality prevails.
If we take a look into their 1st and 2nd game, we know already that this is a mismatch, not only just 5 points gap but more and we can surely predict that Heat can't even win any single game if there is no manipulation happens.

But anyway, this is just a game. This is for entertainment and we know whos gonna win this, just keep betting...

Big games have have a chance of being rigged but I think it is more of a small scale, maybe players are involved in the rigging but the entire organization is unlikely. There is still a possibility that NBA will rig their games given their executives are hungry for money, remember when NBA apologized to China when one of their executives put a tweet that supports Hongkong during the protest. Given that they had kissed the ass of China means that they will do anything for money.

But it will not be easy to rig the games on a big scale because many eyes will see the match itself.
And if some people know that the game is the rig, they will report to the association and protest about that to get punishment or even they will not allow leading the games.
There is a possibility to see the rigged thing in any game, but if before the competition starts, the association can select the right person to lead the game, I think that can minimize that the game will be rigged.
We hope that there is a way to minimize that thing, so the player can play without bothering it.

This same thing happen in local basketball like ours,when there are many rumors that star players of some team are rigging the game for cash value.

there are investigation about them that in a short time become richer above from their payments and businesses recorded.

But due to respect in the whole organization as i believe the management will never allow this kind of bad action towards Basketball .

Certainly basketball in the United States has not been and will never be far from the supposed fixed games, but the issue is the level where it happens. And this applies to any league in the world, the NBA is something else, in fact everyone is so closely watched, from the one who carries the water to the CEO, it is forbidden to be involved in any type of bet.

These guys (everyone involved) make so much money based on their performance qualities that it's unnecessary, unless you have a gambling problem. In this sense, there may be specific but not general situations.

It is not the same to say by the way that such "x" game is fixed or that a certain move was controversial, it may be that at a specific level there is "remotely" the possibility that the adjective of rigged may exist. But at a general level, the whole NBA, No, there is no such thing.

Now the suggestion may exist for certain things that are seen, but I would invite anyone who took a look at the seasons of the 80s, all that decade, you are going to find exceptionally incredible matches in the most unlikely situations, fouls that should not happen, failing two free throws when just one hit would give them win, turnovers, standard baskets that were missed, each and every one of those plays and those involved have been studied over the years, everything remains only suspicions.

That has to do directly with the game, but there are other situations related to external things such as the draft, the selection of players, the lottery, etc.

Who is believed when the lottery was given twice for the Orlando Magic (e.g.). This team won the right twice in a row, but it was incredible to two of the best players of the time and one in the top 5 of all time. Shaquille O'neal 1992 and Chris Webber 1993.

Anyway, everything stays in the "maybe". Perhaps.

The amount of money that is moving on the sports gambling market is huge and even if they are being paid good salaries there is no guarantee those people have their finances in order, and if that is the case those that want to fix matches could always come up with an offer they cannot turn down and they will begin to fix matches that way, after all if you know who is going to win beforehand then you can make a fortune relatively quickly no mater what is your starting capital.

As such the incentive to fix matches will always be there, not only for the gamblers, referees and players but even the league itself could be interested in letting certain teams win more games though fixing matches because the market in which they are located is really important and the NBA cannot afford for those teams to not get to the post season.

For local games then its possible but for an international ones like NBA? then i dont see for them to do such thing or allowing it to happen.
Reputation is at stake and when people do find out or notice it out that its been rigged then trust and interest will surely vanished.
Its hard to tell but when it comes to possibility then it can really happen but for sure it would really be remain unnoticeable.
There are really times where players arent really doing their best or play and bad referee calls.

I would be wary of any games even if the probability of it being rigged is small, as there can always take on a different turn caused by people attraction to money. In that effect, I'm not surprised to see that NBA is getting on the list of rigged games. At the end of the day, there are people at the centre of each game and with that comes both opportunities and risks.

However, at the same time people also need to be made aware that others just like becoming the light of the show whereby they spread their own conspiracies until these take off and get implanted into other peoples heads, propagating what it once was just a 'theory'. That's to say that with the internet a lot of info can also be nothing but a bunch of false claims with little evidence backing it up. Just to provide the other side of the argument.

Of course, there's little weight to either side without proper hard evidence which btw I was not able to find (Google search) to support the NBA rigging  ???

Is it possible that NBA will try to rig the game tonight and will give this game to the Heat. I know everything is all about business, if Heat wins here the series will be tied and it will be an exciting game to watch. The longer the series, more money will be generated and that makes the business successful.

Remember than NBA is an entertainment, it's not built like the competition between country to country and its only under one management or commissioner, so anything is possible, they can rig the game.

I don't want to judge but I have the same feeling to that games could be rig just like any sports.

Please dont because i will surely loss ,maybe Give the Game to lakers instead for sure more will be happy  8)
yeah it is an entertainment but states are looking for popularity thats why games are serious  for them.
exactly the point,maybe it is not the whole management do things but at least there are some who is responsible.

in every Basketball association there is always rigging but it is not from the whole association instead it is from some greed members.

and hope this will not happen in this championship because the match is really doing good.

I am presently watching the NBA final. Yes, I do believe that it might be rigged. There are some referees who do not call an offensive foul on the Lakers and another one is calling an offensive foul on the Heat that did not occur.

There is also a contrarian commentator who is also agreeing with the referees to make it appear that it was the correct call hehehehe.

Well well, here is my opinion. NBA is more involved with business than sports nowadays. And when the business people handle the game and have the hands to move the pieces like chess, then guess what? Manipulation is mandatory. That is how business works, right?

Going back, there is still no proof that the NBA is rigged. And this is just one of the perspectives I have in mind and wouldn't be considered as valid. Peace to everyone!

You have a point because the NBA is becoming more of a business than a sport. I sometimes see and observe that the NBA is only focusing on teams and players who can be a superstar. Other NBA players don't have any chance to show their true talents and full potential because the game is being manipulated, so more people or fans would watch the game and have better earnings.

I believe the NBA has been rigged, because the circulation of money is very much in the NBA. I agree that the NBA is not just
a basketball competition, but the NBA is already a business field. So there are parties who are trying to take advantage here,
and this doesn't happen in the NBA alone, but it happens in almost all other sports. Therefore we have seen several times the
referee's leadership is unfair and siding with one of the teams. There are even some NBA players who play with mistakes on
purpose, it is very obvious there is rigged in the NBA.

Rigging will certainly affect the accuracy of bets. A good bettor who doesn't factor in rigging will likely be affected by rigged results.
 I don't know much about NBA(I'm used to football), but I think you could factor in the rigging before participating in the bets to see if it's true, then avoid betting on certain games/teams/referees that will likely be rigged or encourage rigging...and bet more on games with teams/referees that consistently look fair

I also notice that and look what happen on this final series the Miami heat win which make the game prolong until game 5 and for sure they collected more money for that and I wonder why the performance of Lakers by that time slowdown while we see that the past remaining games they are dominating the Miami and can able sweep them. Maybe there's a sort something like that happen by now since imagine how many months they are out on the business so provably they are doing the shit to earn a more profit this time around.

Either local or international things can happen mate because we know in any part of system there will be a Greedy member that will do the things.
I know this is very isolated case yet it is happening.
If there is a smoke surely there is a fire,and this issue has been in the air for how many years now so we must at least give it a concern because even i am not from U.S yet i am one of the NBA fan and this hurt knowing that there is some rigging happening.

Good theory, lol..even if we believe that NBA is rigged, there's nothing we can do as it can never be proven that they are rigged. Yes, that's a good point that they need more money since they are still playing the salary of the players and yet they are already losing the income from the crowd.

Pure speculation but really hasn't proven yet because if we think it's rigged we have a lot of theories and moreover it will not end there we will make another one and that never ends. If we believe they are then we believe other sports would do as well. Whether really it's rigged or not it's there much the speculators could do? I think it's not and it will just create a FUD among NBA enthusiasts.

That is just a theory though but have basis if you look up the situation and might we can see more games in the finals, If the Lakers will finish and the out the champ on next game then maybe our discussion here is wrong, but I really had a feeling that this series will last until game 6 or 7 since for sure NBA is looking to get more money from the final games.

Maybe if Heat were able to even the series it will last longer, it could last til game 7 but there's no time for Heat to come back, Lakers are just too good, they have a better players compared to the Heat who have good experience in winning the game especially in the current situation.

Rondo was big for the Lakers, he is not done yet, he made good decision down the stretch so there's no chance Heat would still one game, unless Lebron and Davis got into foul trouble and make a lot of turnovers.

With so many games that will take place that might be so hard to find out, rigging the games are unpredictable and can happen in a certain live games, we can't say or assess it right away unless you have insiders that will tell you exactly which games will be manipulated.

You have to extend your time doing deeper research to anticipate to possibilities of this claims.

Even if you spend all your time researching, you can never convince people that NBA is rigged, maybe you can convince yours and you can use that in capping games you like, as they say, when in a certain game, one team is too public or getting more public bets, you go against them or bet against the public, that's a simple technique in betting believing that NBA is rigged hence public is wrong most of the time.

I am sure the referee will do their best to guard the match, even if some referees try to rig the games by giving punishment to some players. But if we want to do deeper research, that will not be easy, since that will need to watch closely for each of them. We can let the match run while we can enjoy the game without thinking about the rig because we are not sure about that.

How can it be rigged? Do you have any documents or video, so we can see and investigate and give our honest opinion to the matter because blindy accusing the game is rigged isn't really going to get us anywhere.
Just because Lakers is winning easily versus Miami doesn't mean that their cheating because of uncalled fouls, same goes for them sometimes referee's miss call a play with a foul without a player committing one. It also show that Lakers are better because of seasoned and veteran players they have.

Search in youtube, you can see a lot of videos saying NBA is rigged, but it's up to you if you will believe or not, either way, no one has already proved that NBA is rigged, all of what we can read and watch are just theories based on their observation.

Referees indeed will do that, especially the officials that will be blamed in any particular questionable calls that refs may call during the game. We are all assuming but we don't have any concrete proofs that will direct this in regards of any rigging the game.

You nailed it, we should enjoy the game rather than thinking of something that we can't really justify.

I saw this one and you judge for yourself.

Look at the "2002 WCF Game 6 LAL vs Kings", there's plenty of videos online that says the game was fix for the Lakers to advance in the NBA Finals as that's what people really wanna see, and in this WCF series, it was the Kings who lead 3-2 going to game 6.

here's one of the videos.

Full Highlights 2002 WCF Game 6 LAL vs Kings - Bad or Fixed? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITDJBr-iN1I referees)

Judge it yourself.

Some said it was just really that bad but most of the comments do say it was fixed which it is clear when you do really look carefully into those foul calls made by that fucking referee. Even on that Rockets and Suns game 2004-2005 said that it was rigged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKE5zDshS4 Until now there's still discussions about this event where it cant really be easily forgotten.
We can even see lots of conspiracies about NBA rigging games.

Thanks for sharing the video, it looks rigged though but the sacramento vs Lakers are closer since the questionable call and non call of fouls happen in the last 3 minutes of the game, we already know what they are after of, Lakers!!!! .. it seems weird watching the video that even the crowd does not look happy with the calls, it seems like they know games are rig that time.

thinking that the NBA is just moving forward from the Pandemic effect in which this does not look good for the whole Basketball community right?

who's the reason behind this issues when we all need now is positivity for the whole NBA and basketball fanatic.

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having all that is i believe NBA wasn't rigged and this issue will stop soon as the supporters will stay and continue for the sake of the association .

I think the investigation will help find that rigged, but it is too difficult to prove if the referee does that. We can say the referee rigged the match, but we cannot do anything as long as we can not prove it. That is what happens in many countries in which the match has been rigged. They can protest to the referee, but the last result will be from them. Maybe we need to have a higher authority to help the investigation to find who did that.

Referee do a really thankless job because we get to see the replays and then we blame referees but they have to make calls in real time and it is never easy because players fake a lot of contact and it is really hard to tell from a distance whether a player made some physical contact with another player which is the root base of the foul call and then there are technical fouls so as easy as it looks from outside it is not actually that easy when you think from the perspective of the umpire and the pressure they are under to make calls on superstar players in the biggest basketball league.

I agree we should enjoy the game but if there is something that is fishy and needs attention then there is no harm in discussing it either because if we blindly watch that's shown to us then we would have been never able to catch referees like Donaghy who rigged so many games and admitted.

The higher authority is from the government side and they would not investigate if there's no complain and concrete evidence on the accusation. NBA has been existing for decades already, we have heard a lot of conspiracy stories but until now it's still not proven.

it's always tempting to believe in conspiracies but if we step back and look at the clearer picture:
it's much higher to fake a game result than it is to just leave it for randomness.

Still hearsay indeed since there's no actual references and there's no clear evidence aside from everyone's speculative judgements. Regarding to that statement, it's still showing that fans are valuing the sports they still enjoying the game and supporting it.

Pandemic might affect the season as we see those reports regarding to the sales but everything still running smoothly.

Not for long because if we will see another bubble in the next season, that would mean the salary of the players will be affected, it will reduce to be specific. Gate entrance is where the main revenue is derived, without that, NBA might not able to survive on their expenses.

NBA does have millions to billions in savings. They can sustain the bubble setup I think for at least 5 years.

Their revenue got lessen but it's hard to think that we have to deal with the pandemic for 5 years.

And the salary of players is already at the talk when the NBA suspended. These are big men and they already have a big plan for it.

There is a chance that the NBA or any kind of sports can be rigged because we can't deny there are some money talks behind right here still there are some management won't gonna sell their players and the whole team just because of the money the NBA and each team represents their different country and also the reputation of their place.

I think they will not do this also this is too unfair to the bettors because they all know the player who wins the game but because of manipulation, there is possible loss might happen.

They can survive longer than most businesses out there. They are one of the few groups that can survive even with crisis because as like you said they have huge savings, even individual players. So it depends on their lifestyle they want. But honestly, they are one of the lucky groups that should not worry about food or any other necessity. Just remember, a lot of people are experiencing hunger these days, so they should be grateful they don't have that kind of problem.

It is not about the Budget where NBA association is at stake here but their reputation being rigged in which for me is impossible to be composed of the whole congregation .

What i am thinking is those small issue that maybe cause by the bitter people thats why they keep on throwing bad things to NBA because they knew that this group is stable and has a long future ahead.

True.
We can never ever completely judge about this as a one hundred percents sure. There is a match rigged with proof and there is a speculation growing after that so it is kind of 50 ; 50.
American themselves love to gamble more than any other people in the world , they have complete freedom. This is the beginning where all the rigged games started , a businessman behind gambling industry must be take an action whenever they see a potential harmful , include doing an illegal dirty job to fix certain games.

So are they rigging the Finals now to extend in game 7?

What do you think, Heat suddenly became a good team and they are already +5.5 next game, that's the lowest + they got since this series.
For me, I think that game was just fair, I don't see the full game due to my bad streaming connection, but I would like to hear your thoughts about it.

The heat won and it was an intense 4th quarter, I'd be honest. I really do not see this as a rigged game. I mean the best in the east versus the best in the west, certainly we are dealing with the best basketball players in the that side of the world if not the entire world. Let's just simply enjoy the game as it is. Just a basketball game, not a tool for power and prestige.

actually i loss because i bet for Lakers lol,and the lakers did great but not enough when miami totally dominate in 4th quarter.

Lets look is there rigging happen?or in this whole championship?i don't think so.

Heat was just aggressive in this game and Robinson their shooter was having a good game, his best game in the series actually, so there's no rigged game. Usually those who complain that the game was rigged are those who are really losing money, so who are losers here? lol

Somehow they show a beautiful fight but you cannot blame people to think about NBA is rigged, remember there operation stops for many months and this time they can cover up those losses since finals is ongoing and they cannot earn if they finish the series for so early that's why I also doubt about that and I somehow got a feeling that Miami will win on game 5 and they really win that round.

that is a enough amount to let the game continue in this kind of set up,small income but big expenses.
5 years?i don't think we need to have that mind set because we are the one who is responsible for this virus,our action being people will save us all so 5 years is exaggerated .
maybe players nowadays will give way for a while,lessen payments until the association recovers ...Just my two cent.

Will you watched a sports events that is rigged I will not if the rumors are true but all are hear say and there's no proof just human error that people wants to exploit, there are bad judgement in any every sports but that does not mean the sports are rigged, and besides some sports organizations and even NBA are giving fine to obvious calls that were not called.

I don't think NBA can survive if they will stay the same set up, they can take the expenses like the venue, broadcasting and etc, but for sure they can't anymore cover the salaries of the NBA players.

I'm looking at the figures now http://www.espn.com/nba/salaries.... and I say it's impossible.

https://i.imgur.com/p3qO2UY.png

Truly a rumored thing, hearsay, no one else will believe that, and I may not be supposed to support it either. We find some wrong refs decision but I think it was acceptable, human error as you've said and it different when you are on the set and just watching on the corner.

If could think that the NBA is rigged, it never makes sense to watch them play since we know that the ball is already been set to whom it wins the finals.

If there is a complaint related to the NBA competition and it looks suspicious, I am sure the higher authority will investigate, and they will search for the evidence to find out what is going on. They will join with another government agency to work together and solve the complaint. Maybe that will difficult as they will face the corrupt officials who cover that rigged. But that will only a matter of time before the rigging in the NBA can found it.

The community of the NBA are so huge and also there are a lot of people support this because every time the NBA starts the fans of basketball and supporters of different team's are now again into the hype I don't think so if the NBA becomes rigged they already build reputation into the field of basketball also this is a sports game there are rules within there is  violation of there might happen a transactions between those teams or an event.

There will always be a small amount of population around the world that really believes that the NBA is rigged but still cant produce enough evidence to show it. Even if we prove that the current Playoffs was rigged, do you really think the players would do something that would just waste their energy? I mean, it would be possible for some players to throw the game but its impossible to tell if the whole system is rigged. So I guess, its not rigged and it would be fair to just watch them since betting on their games are outside their jurisdiction BUT they can still throw games though so that is the scarier issue.

rigged or not bettors won't have any advantage or disadvantage only the the people who knows that it was rigged and know the result will have the advantage, but still if we will know that the game is rigged nba or other sports i would really be disappointed.

If it was rigged in favor of the sportsbook then we will see some advantage here as usually public bets would lose and if we expect and believe that to happen, we just bet on the other side without analyzing the stats as that's useless if games are rigged.

I am actually more amazed with sports analysts in betting sites.
How can they predict the total score will be and they are almost accurate with the score and stats of players.
It almost looked like a player told them I will score like this and put an amount of assists in this range of number.  ;D

But, I doubt it is rigged.
They will be facing a lot of legal issues if proven.
Plus, there is no more fun if it ends up like that. Better to just close the business down.
I don't think NBA would want that to happen.

If there's really something happening behind then surely those who understand the business will

continue to enjoy the outcome that favors their bets, we can't tell who are those if they are existing for real.

Only time will reveal the real thing inside this allegations, no one among us here who can prove it, just nothing at all.



More on public bets, people who have a big nerves putting their bets against the public then hits the big one enjoyed a very huge
outcomes.
They are lucky enough but nothing proves the allegations, still no one can tell if winning something can conclude that the  games
are being rigged.

If you are successful betting against the public, you'll not anymore complain if the game is rigged as it's always in your favor, it's just a matter of using our common sense, gambling is not hard if you know the trend, but I'm not telling I can easily win, but at least I know which side I should bet on based on my instinct.

Nothing until now, otherwise NBA officials are already in jail.

The contrarian commentator is probably one of the biggest reasons why people believe the games may be rigged, it is obvious television networks have a commentator there to have the contrary opinion of whatever is being discussed just to spark a discussion and to increase the polemic and try to drive ratings up that way, but there are some plays that are incredible obvious and in which there is no room for any discussion and for the most part the contrarian commentator sticks to his role making him to look completely ridiculous.

And that is when people begin to suspect something is off and that the games could be fixed when in fact what it is just happening is that the contrarian commentator is just doing a very poor job.

Well, if those chances are proved, a lot of NBA officials should be filed for fraud and bad management. Rigging something that big would also affect the players which shows none of them wanna rig the game they love. For now it really seems impossible.

I don't think the cheating that occurs in the world of sport will affect gambler on such a large scale. It sound very unlikely that the gambling houses will control a well-known sport like the NBA to their advantage. But if this were to happen then I don't think there would be anything more exciting in the sporting world to be at stake because everything was set up.

There are gamblers who believe that rigging in NBA is possible, so they always consider that when betting, and you could be right, it might not affect the gamblers because when we are gambling, we only choose two sides, if we are in the right side we win, if not we lose, simple as that.

As I was saying, just be on the right side and you'll be consistent, in fact I believe if games are rig it's easier to predict as you can tell where the public bets are going based on your instinct.

I agree with you, the NBA is just too big go be controlled why bookmakers. So far I didn't see any real proof that the NBA is rigged. I believe if such a proof would exist the the global fallout for the sport would be massive. Every newspaper would be reporting such a news. The average gambler would probably stop completely to bet on NBA games because who knows which games are fixed and which aren't. And imagine if the NBA players would have to go to jail. Its very unrealistic.

Bookmaker can't control the NBA, if it's rigged then it would be a conspiracy or partnership with the sportsbook, it's an easy money for them, NBA will make money in NBA games while they still make good money from giving tips to the sportsbook on which team to win, but that is too obvious, it would not happen.

It is the job of the association to investigate that case. If the association can find that and get the person behind on that rigged, that will clean the NBA association's mess. But that won't stop the other people from trying to rig the match. But yes, the NBA will make a lot of money from the match, but I don't know if the NBA is giving tips to the sports bookmaker.

There nothing to investigate if there is a conspiracy as they are like making ways to put themselves in jail.

But as an example that NBA is investigating their officials in the floor, there's one referee who got caught rigging games and was sentence for 15 months in prison for gambling scandal.

here's the story; Donaghy sentenced to 15 months in prison in gambling scandal (https://www.espn.com/nba/news/story?id=3509440)

That's a good example.
Same goes with players if they are found to be shaving points.

They might also be into gambling but they cannot just do things that obviously tells they are controlling the basketball floor.
I am sure they will be investigated afterwards.
NBA had been more stricter now and even flops are being assessed in replays so that if proven they will pay the fine.
Actually, they should increase the fine amount to avoid it from happening again.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flop_(basketball)#:~:text=In%20the%20playoffs%2C%20players%20are,more%20times%20could%20be%20suspended.)

I think it is still possible to make things like this but it could be done seemingly unintentional. I have observe it in the game 3 and game miami vs lakers to which lakers defense has not as good as the last game they played.

However, the bad thing about it is that it will not be disclose to anyone. This is why I think the only thing that had benefited in this situation are those the staff, the players and to those who are close to them. It is all about money and all could be done because of it.

Uncalled fouls is not considered entirely rigged. Mostly, it's human error because referee's sometimes can't see any violations during a chaotic game.
But mostly the games are clean, we can see in the Championship Miami vs Lakers, if its rigged then Lakers could easily do underhanded techniques to sabotage the Miami heat, and fouled out butler, but the game got until game 6 because both teams are good. Not because its fixed.

How about the game today? Do you guys believe that such things happened even in the NBA Finals?

As we can see the game today is not as competitive as they played in game 6. The Miami Heat didn't shoot the ball well and they are missing crucial free throws. I think there is something odd in that play. nevertheless, it's not enough evidence to call it a rigged in the association. maybe they just meant to lose this one because the Lakers are one of the heavyweight teams in the NBA that has some strong both offense and defense.

https://cdn.chatsports.com/cache/a4/f7/a4f7b96be7a8f9a21179770c79b21dce-original.jpg

That was the real NBA, there's no rigging happening in that game, rig usually favor the underdog to win or at least cover the spread.
What we witnessed in game 6 was the real strength of the Lakers, they clearly showed how dominant they are and Heat had no answer for them.

I can compare the Heat vs Lakers series to the Cavaliers vs Raptors 2016 ECF where people thought Cavaliers could sweep the Raptors as they were too dominant in the East but what happen is that Raptors fought hard and the series ends in game 6 Cavaliers winning the battle.

If we believe in rig, then that series must be rig to prolong it.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/2016-nba-eastern-conference-finals-raptors-vs-cavaliers.html

True that and the fact that no one wants to miss an opportunity to make more money even if it comes through rough or illegal means.

I am quite sure there have been instances in past like referee Tim Donaghy was found to be involved in match fixing and there was another Tim who used to give some baseless and useless foul calls while there were time when he would miss obvious fouls.

And when the referee knows that they have a chance to influence the game studded with so many star players they feel like they are real deal and actually not always rigged but sometimes ego problems are there too. James harden recently spoke about this problem as he has never won in like 7-8 matches when the referee is officiating. I am talking about Scott Foster if you wonder.

Im seeing the opposite way because if you do look closely and on why Miami do really missed out those shots because of the defense had been showed off by Lakers plus having
even more stronger offense which do really make that huge lead.I didnt see anything odd on players of miami because they do still do their best and if they do really let lakers win
then scores wont really be that too far in gap in final moments.You do see the effort made and thats why i dont really see this as a cooked match just for letting Lakers to win
the finals.Its just really hard work and perseverance which it did really shows off some result.

It is really obvious if they are faking it inside the court. Because if you are a loyal fan or supporter, you basically know how each and every player performs inside the court. So if they are cooking, it will clearly show unless they know how to be discreet with their movements. But that's hard to act inside. If they are missing some important shots, more than likely it's not all about intentionally doing it but rather just bad luck.

Off night for them, most of  their key players didn't performed well due to a really tough defense coming from Lakers squad, it's tough to break how the team prepared for this game, putting almost all the key players not to create anything, the confidence was been decrease as Lakers chased them that hard and after that they bring good offensive attacks.

No sign of any rigged if we talked about this final results as everything
was played decently just the fact that Laker was really good aiming to bring the title back to their franchise.

Those who are involved are in for a multi-million dollar suits, the NBA is an international multi-billion-dollar sports empire on the merchandise alone they command millions of dollars of profit, the officials and the whole organizations will never want their organization rigged so it's really unlikely they have a legacy and history to protect.

Theoretically it could really be rigged but we as an audience couldn't really know it for sure or have any solid proof about it.
What if the match where an underdog won the match with just a small point advantage we couldn't be sure if they really won it because of their skills or luck or the opponent was paid to throw the game.
We wouldn't know something like that specially if they would just make a small error to let the underdog gets some point.

What I value with the NBA is the entertainment value of the games. I mean you watch because you have your favorite teams and that we watch in awe their moves, their dunks, their defense and offense, their shots. I mean if it is rigged then you should be able to see it immediately that there is something wrong with their game and how they play it. I really don't think it is rigged. Full of politics perhaps, but rigged? Definitely not.

Yeah, we could only guess. But I think we shouldn't think that the NBA is rigged because it is out of our thinking. There are many ways for people who want to rig the match, and sometimes, we can not think that they can do things. But they will deny it because they don't want other people to know that the fact is they did that. It will never end the story to dig the truth about rigging the sports from the people who did that. I think it is better to let the local officials search about that and investigate it if they found something suspicious.

Agreed, while I can picture some games being rigged on the NBA as some players, coaches or refs that do not earn as much money could be tempted to try to do so I do not think this happens on the finals as there is simply too much money and prestige at stake for people to do that kind of thing, I know that for example there are examples of rigging on the MLB on the distant past but right now that kind of secret would not be able to remain hidden, someone will brag about it and suddenly this will be listened by the right person and an investigation will ensue.

So I think that what we saw in the playoffs was legitimate and if a team underperforms most likely it is simply because the team in front was superior to them.

There's no secret that wont be revealed.It might take years or long time but sooner or later there would really be leaks telling that it was rigged but to say
it is already late but at least we do saw that rigging up games is possible not only on NBA but in other sports as well.Also as mentioned about players
havent able to play well or seems odd then i agree into your point that they might havent able to play that well because the opponent was just too good
for them.Its not always right to take the blame and tell that it was rigged just because you havent seen on what you hadnt expected.

What I have noticed is that those saying that the playoffs is rigged are actually those people who don't watch regularly an NBA game.

If only they able to watch some games, they can see if something wrong is happening especially with the player's behavior. Other series are not even ended on Game 7. Players are also determined to win. What's the purpose of risking in the bubble if they are free to opt-out playing in the resume?

NBA does have a big stand for that. Players will not throw away their reputation by participating in rigged games.

I saw the playoffs, in the bubble and looks like players are really serious with what they are doing, they put their passion and play to win. However, it's not the players who are rigging games, on the videos we saw that was already shared in this thread, it was the referees who are doing it by calling questionable calls to favor a certain team to win, now the question is whether they do it on their own or by the direction of the league's management, hard to say because it was not proven, so it will just remain a theory.

Some request to OP;

Adding a poll would give us a good picture on what percentage of the posters believe that NBA is rig.

Lots of evidence posted here, so it does make the discussion more interesting although based on theory only and that evidence can't be verify.

I don't think so. It's been going through since 1946 and many legends are known from it. It's just that the team that we always see on final and semifinal playoffs are strong. The only way I think it can be rigged is if someone pays the referee on that game then make some bad calls on the team he was told to.

That's how I looked on it also it's hard to create connivance in NBA there will a whistle blower, we have seen so many bad calls coming from the referees in the past and it has become a subject of allegations of rigging the game, but like I said the organization has a quick eye now they will see if the referee is acting suspiciously, the ref should be very good at closing his eyes on not calling an obvious foul but there's always a replays to check his actions.

That's it, that's mostly what a kind of theory we can see in the video in youtube, refs rigging the game, but we don't know if they are paid or they are just doing it for their personal satisfaction, what people like to prove is if the refs are ordered by the NBA management to rig a certain game or games, because it cannot be rigging every game, that's too obvious if it's really happening.

If that will be proven then we don't have an NBA to watch now, and that would also affect the reputation of other major sports, so it's not gonna happen, whatever they are doing inside, we will never find any evidence to sue them for rigging the game, ask the many and most of them will say games are not rigged.

Well i think the issue will subside now since the championship is done with good reputation and no thrown issue so we can expect positive views now.

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NBA is a good and reputable institution and i am sure they will not risk their reputation doing this BS thing of rigging.

It is possible, but there is no evidence that the NBA management is doing something like that,

This has been also being discussed in my country before, some says that this is their way to make the matches longer. The longer the matches, more viewers will be coming to watch the game, it means more money.

As what have previously posted in this thread, all we see is just an speculation, it's not proven, it's okay to speculate if we really believe as that would somehow help us as a bettor, we will consider it when choosing the team to bet and that will convince our mind that favorites will fail to cover the spread most of the time.

Also being favoured by official can make it possible to be rigged. Being rigged may not be with money but by being in favour to the official. In this case, the player may not be aware too. I think most live games can have some ulterior strategy.

We can only guess I suppose are there are no real info about whatsoever so personally I like to think that NBA is clean but then I saw so many buckets that looked like basket manipulation when the ball curves in the air or just gets extra energy in order to make the bucket. I think every winner is decided before the season starts in a way or another and this might be the last Lakers championship for the next 7 to 9 years and I have Nets into finals for 2021.

I think players have more power than team owners. Franchises are in charge of keeping their players happy. For this simple reason, I don't think the NBA is rigged. Especially this season, players and team owners are arguing about the power they can represent as part of the nation.

The NBA is rigged in this regard, especially this year when racial injustices made their mark. The players realized that they can make themselves heard if they come together and that one man's voice is not enough.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/NBA-boycott-history.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/opinion/NBA-boycott-history.html)

Poll has been added, please cast your vote so we can see what majority think about the NBA.

I'm sure we got a lot of voters here as this thread is so active.

Thanks, already voted, partially I believe it's rigged but the entire organization is not rigged IMO.
I guess we have discussed a lot here, more opinion less facts presented, I hope there's more posters who will share some interesting article or videos.

Most of the times people who lose money on NBA will be the one complaining that the games are rigged because they are frustrated and adding a poll is a good idea but it only shows what people think and you can't believe them because if majority of the people had the right decision making ability then we would have had best leaders around the world instead of outspoken and dumb leaders.

Coming back to NBA though, I believe there are bad calls just like there are horrendous calls of strike and ball in MLB and it is easy to allege someone for fixing but the truth is that they work all day to make the game possible and knowing what people think about them will only demotivate them. I also check for twitter #NBA and a lot of guys are cursing players and refs which makes me feel so bad.

I Could have not voted but I have voted for Yes! that it can be rigged but not all the time, Well, we all know that players and some officials may gamble on who's gonna win and there are some news and speculation that it will go down to rigging the game, but there is much evidence that might prove this but all of you decide if this is true or not.

1) Starting with Ayesha Curry's Tweet when Steph Curry's team The GSW lost on 2016
https://i.imgur.com/AVSAhEc.jpeg

2) If you know the Issue between James Harden and the Referee's calls that he said that the game might have been rigged, I know that the plays might have bad for Harden and the referee's are having technical difficulty in calling the right call, but this can be included in not proof but there is a gray area about it
https://i.imgur.com/WpbriOm.png

3) The 1985 Lottery Controversial and if you are not familiar with it you can surely google it, This can be a conspiracy but it is up to you who's to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYb84lcDXyY

But I am never saying that all games are rigged there are maybe just a few games that most of the time the referee has control.

I also voted and I feel its rigged even its not all just very few matches and as many giving their own opinion its not in favour of betters because they done this all for just personal sack and give some good benefit to bookies for their own good stakes from this big profit.

LOL. Warriors are on 3-1 lead on that series and they blew it.

Ayesha Curry just being a crybaby at that time. With that small incident, she easily said the game was rigged lol. Not acceptable reason to consider NBA as rigged.


James Harden just can't accept that his strategy didn't work on that game.

And throughout his career, he always got away from referees call. It seems effective in the long-run so he just continues. And when that time comes that he disagreed with the refs call, he voiced it out quickly. :D

I wouldn't say rigged completely, but on some levels you can see signs. Despite competitive part, in the end this is entertainment business so ratings affect some decisions. It's not only in NBA though, it happens on all major sports. You see every player is equal on book but some players are more equal, just like Orwell said.
If you are a high rank player you don't get fouled out easily or disqualified, you get easier calls etc. Referees need to cover players health and such.

It's good to see an underdog win but sometimes bigger teams need to be in finals to get more ratings. There are levels to this system like I said. Everybody can enjoy LeBron on the court but it would be a struggle to watch if unknown players take more time on TV.

Every event around the world can be rigged.
NBA has more opportunities of being rigged due to the fact that there are a lot of money involved in this competition.
However, we don't have anything to prove that it really is, and to tell you the truth if it was rigged, then Bucks would be already champions as Giannis is the most commercial player in the league right now and a ring would boost the NBA popularity more.

Not just the NBA but every game is rigged. The NBA is rigged to play but the demand is higher than other games it has been rigged so i can now explain the obstacles that must be overcome to overcome this kind of conspiracy. I can mention that every single person in the denver broncos organization has to accept that their team is going to throw away the biggest game of their lives by keeping their mouths shut in case of winning there is more chance to become a champion.

Match fixing in sports is very common and I will not be shocked if one day the truth will be unveiled that some huge games in NBA history is match fixed.
There are some obviously rigged match ups in the NBA you can count in questionable calls from refs too as game being rigged. No sports in the world is not rigged trust me, there are still dark sides we haven't seen.

Interesting.
Is that (the bolded) just an observation or it certainly happens? Will be disappointed if it does happen in major football/soccer leagues.
It's bad to prevent the most prepared/qualified from winning. Unfair "moderation/regulation" of a game could be the main cause of this unless the players agree to let their game end in a particular way they want.
 The latter is still bad because the fans or spectators think the game is real competition. You don't decieve in the name of entertainment unless you always and specifically tell the fans/spectators that it's not real.

Even we all agree that there's something behind it we are just all speculating, none can show up the proof that the games are rigged. NBA is a big organization where money flows behind the scenes.

You said it right, there are obvious calls that really changes the game and make things unfavorable to other teams, but even things happened the call still a call and that can't changed the outcome once the games already ended.

Yup! he couldn't accept how the referee's have called it, but for saying that the game was rigged from that point he might actually have an idea that the game could be possibly rigged or the NBA games could be really rigged right? and at that point the referee's even says sorry to him for making a bad call, Well this is all just speculation but the controversial game rigged just got hype because of tweets and players reaction to some extend that they are exploiting the rigged possibility.

But it is for us to decide and I know there are many NBA fans out there including half of myself :P that are enjoying some of the action in the court even though it is rigged or not let's not be hasty enough in saying that the whole NBA is a big rigged because as an NBA fan let's just sit back and enjoy.

There's a possibility that it is, but it will need to be documented and many people who is in the business needs to come out, and prove that it is really rigged, there are a lot of theories coming out but this can be considered speculation because these speculations are backed by people perceived as human errors by referees and players  

It's hard to prove that there are fixed games or rigging in the NBA because game fixers are also relying on the league to make money, and it's hard to prove there may be some but I don't think it's the whole team that's going to do that, maybe officials and some players will do that, but if these are proven those involved will be charged with multi million dollar suit.

But how do you know that? I mean if someone claims the NBA is rigged surely they must have watched something happened that was botched or something, right? One who does not watch NBA can't even make any claims.

True and the salary for players is huge so risking their life and career over some money would not be a wise and viable option but there might be other parts of the NBA being rigged like the Referee might be botching a few calls intentionally and maybe sometimes can be other officials like the review center that might botch a play by showing wrong/inconclusive angles. A lot of possibilities are there but personally speaking, I don't think it was rigged just because players played after a long time and without crowd the games were below the average NBA quality.

I have read articles and allegations that there are games that are rigged but it's hard to prove that and it's hard to post proofs because you can be charged for giving the league a bad name, but if ever there are rigged games it could not be the play off and championship games because play off and championship are the most coveted standing in the NBA.

It is hard to prove if that match is rigged or not because many people can speculate about what happens. But we don't have to think much about that, and it is better we enjoy the game and let the officials investigate it if they found that the game is rigged. I am sure that if they found something strange, the officials will do something related to that, and they will search for the prove to know what causes that matter.

Yups and some of those are just strategy from someones who hates NBA or a advertising strategy to make NBA popular more.
actually this kind of stuff is common when we are talking basketball because in almost all part of the world their basketball association is going under this issue yet nothing is proven so let us close this topic because the Championship has already finished and we are waiting for another season to start.

Yes it was rigged.
The way the match was going, I knew it will go to be rig by the official of the game. I don't know why NBA match don't always favour my team  where ever we meet with the old team  hoping that the new team will defeat the old team 2:1 but it ended 2:2 which is making many people complaining that the old team didn't play well in second half.
I believe many official saw how the game ended but they where not happy the way they strategies to rig the game.  

That's only based on what you saw but in reality there's no evidence that NBA is rig.

I sometimes think that some games could be rig but to say that officials are rigging the game, that's a big statement, that means the whole organization is rig, unfortunately, even if we believe it is, without an evidence, that's non sense and it will remain on us.

Sure, it happens in major football leagues a lot. It's more like match fixing problem rather than ratings though. We know certified cases in Italian league etc., big clubs got relegated after that scandal was exposed.
I don't think NBA has that kind of problem because it's bigger platform and different challenge but I believe that happens occasionally and it's almost impossible to prove.

It is a big shame for the NBA if does it happens. I can't tell or to believe that it actually exists in basketball, a sort of manipulation, well, it talks differently when it comes to money and how the business moving on but doubtedly it happens.

For a game that has been set-up already, will it sees to be boring. I'm not sure how both teams dramatically performing the game until the end which very unlikley to see when both teams wanted to gain winnings and championship. So for now, I'm holding the trust that NBA haven't rigged.

We do have the rights and decisions on our own on what to believe and whats not but how can you explain about this game wayback in 2002 WCF?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITDJBr-iN1I

Try to watch the video of said finals and decide and see it for yourself if this is something normal that you do normally we believe?
Rigged games do exist as long theres money do circulate then these events are pretty norm.

Look at Divac's face here, he was laughing like he really know something was going on, players know as they are in the game and sometimes we see them complain while some just let the game flow as they know they would still not win and they might just threw out of the game.

I guess it will be pretty easy to prove if a referee intentionally officiate in certain way in favour or against a team. But it'll be abit hard to prove if two experienced teams agree to play in certain way to achieve a predetermined score/result.

At some point I think the NBA was rigged before not quite sure when was that but if you are referring to current playoffs we can how really both Heat and Lakers do their best in games we can see also how Butler works and we can see how LeBron and his teammates do the same thing to win. I really don't think it is rigged

Heat did everything but I think ref somehow help them to win games, if there's a good call, Lakers could finish the heat in 4, we've seen it but sometimes best players are going to be out of rhythm if the calls are all against them, just like what Davis experience, he also had some off games in the series.

Definitely a quiet so true, sometimes it is hard to tell whether the game was rigged or not. I dont think that NBA game was rigged since as what we have seen in the last game of Lakers and Heat both team has played the game well. Every players did their best to make their respective team stand till last. I couldn't think how to say that NBA game was rigged, can't see it while on a live game, maybe some regulations of the game were worked behind the scene.

No one can tell, it's just how you think but I'm pretty sure many people think the game is fair.

Prior to the Finals, Lakers was already expected to win as teams in the East are really weak, sorry just saying the truth.

But Heat had a great journey, they beat the best team in the regular season, that was the bucks where they almost swept, so I don't think they can't win against the Lakers although Lakers was obviously playing well.

Anyway, what you see is what you believe, we might see the same game but look it differently.  ;D

Well, there are times that the referee are making these weird calls that might be a proof that there are games that are rigged. We don't know actually know what is happening but if there are those people that bet huge amount of money into these sports, I think there are those times where it is being rigged by either the players themselves or the referees.

I agree with how Heat tried everything but with some rigged calls not sure about that, both sides claimed to have a bad calls respectively and we can't removed that.

The fact that both teams really wanted to win over another, there are calls that they've think its favors the other side, and busting the game.

It's done and we all seen the outcome, Lakers line up really dominates the game
they are more solid compared to Heat's lineup where all are still young.

Definitely, NO.
I still believe in the fair play that they showed to us despite some rumors.

Some win and some lose, that is the reality in every game. And it was obvious that the Lakers is better than Heat, so the best wins...
Heat players need time to develop their teammates and to be more aggressive. Hope they can make a good/better play next season.

I think not. On those 2 games where the Heat won, try to check the foul call stats at each team and we can say no involvement of referees to that just to increase the chance of Miami Heat winning on that games.

I also expected a sweep but after watching the whole series, we have seen how positive Heat players to avoid being swept. And that's a 4-1 if only Danny Green
able to hit that supposed open big clutch shot on Game 5.

The best for each season wins.

But many are believing that by the next season, they can still be the one who'll become the champs again. A back to back as their roster is really strong.

I don't believe that it's rigged too.

Indeed, it is a clean fight between the both teams. However, we all know that there are some instances that referees di really have their favorable team which they will give a lot of advantages of the game.

And to answer OP, no it is not. As I said, there are only times that the referee will have a favorable team but it doesn't mean that the whole NBA games are rigged.

What would the fer get if he will favor a certain team?

Money, or winning from his bet?

I think that is just too small considering millions of money are being wagered in just one game in the NBA, and no refs would risk his job for that small amount of money, we should also be talking of hundreds of thousands or even millions given to the refs if NBA is not involved in rigging games. For me, if refs has a favorable team, that's not doing is job, we can still categorized that to game rigging.

Its pretty obvious and even Lakers fan do already notice it out that something shit is going on with the game. All those foul calls are indeed controversial.
How the hell an offensive foul on a player which is only standing? 0.04- 0.06 seconds of the video itself you can tell that was a shitty call.
Even myself watching on that playback do just end up on having a smile on my face and i can feel out on the situation they are in.  :D

Each has their own opinion but we cannot remove the fact that there are really bad calls or bad plays in NBA which makes audiences doubt about the game.

When you say audience that does not mean the entire audience, maybe few, and that is normal. Those who think NBA is rig should not just watch the game instead because it will not make them enjoy watching the game as all they think is just to criticize and that eliminates the excitement.

And that is different from being a watcher and a referee. Some did a bad call coz they are not perfect.
The bold one hurts, ouch. Yeah, they might stop watching NBA than hurting themselves and not to trust what the referee does.

I assume that after a match is played, spectators and others, point out bad decisions with their evidences (probably from their cameras) and official cameras. I wonder if this happens? If the evidence is compelling, then a match is replayed and victory reverted.
I think evidence would need to be authentic, and uploaded immediately on a public site as they are gathered. Such site would need to be decentralized I think, so evidences can't be tampered.

But that will need more proof for the referee to be guilty, and the association can not judge the referee without having more proof. The audience will not know, but sometimes, the audience can see it clearly, but we can not do anything once again. But I hope that if the NBA games really get rigged, the person can be proved as a suspect, be punished, or be a prison.

The association can review the play since it's recorded, so even if the organization has no proof that the refs are rigging the game, but with inconsistent calls by the referee, they can fire the referee because he is not doing his job, and that would hurt the referee as that is their main income, so they'll certainly make sure they will do their job very well.

A lot of cameras are focussed on every game so I don't think you could just say that they are not guilty as they can review a lot of tapes a million of times as they wanted to. They can be fined, they can be fired, well, as long as they love their job I don't think they would just let theirselves being paid for them to control or manipulate a game.

Technology itself has improve, not only to give the viewers a good experience but to also improve the security against fraud particularly from the people officiating the game, NBA would never do thing that would destroy their reputation as that's destroying a billion dollar business that was built for decades.

It's acceptable.

Those calls can't be removed in the league.

But having bad calls doesn't mean that the NBA is rigged. The calls of referees don't represent them.

You got it, the league has so much to lose just for a game to be rigged. Almost all of the athletes, staff, managements pour their heart out to win and not all of them would agree to rig a game. We've seen how the play the game. It's even hard to control the game, one missed call by a ref will be all around the internet. Refs make mistakes cause they are human too, if they did create mistakes too many times in a game, then they will lose their job. If one team would want to be a champion, they would put their money getting the best athletes in the league, I think they will want to win in the best way without a high risk and that is the only way.

That's what we are seeing with the NBA teams so far, they will get superstars to make the team a championship caliber and pay them with huge money, they are not involve in any rigging, what we are talking here are only the refs which are rigging games and there's no evidence that they are doing it for the NBA management or a certain team.

They (the team), would not risk their reputation to win, they want a clear and fair chance when playing.

So many people are involved in the game process that it makes them all accomplices in an event that this is rigged and I really cannot believe that. The game packs a punch that many viewers are entertained and also I don't think that they will tarnish their reputation by rigging the game. Many people don't believe that and many people won't accept that there is rigging involved. Anyway, rigging is very complex thing to pull off in my opinion that it will be very scandalous for the NBA to recover if such a thing happened.

Let's make it a situation that NBA is rigged and it's been verified and admitted by the officials. The stand of us can say that we can't accept that but we have no choice to accept the fact that it's rigged. And let's put the situation into the situation that it's not rigged. Even if people say that it's rigged yet they don't have difference, we have to accept that it's not rigged. We can't prove allegations through theories and that's what others are thinking for saying that it's rigged based in their opinions.

Just like other sports, the NBA is also prone to getting rigged. But with advances in technology, It's easier to find rigged games
in NBA games. That's why the number of occurrences of rigged in the NBA is now drastically reduced, and we all hope that in the
future the NBA can be truly free from rigged.

There's no rig happening anymore, if there is it's all in our head as we could see a different thing due to emotional impact on the game, whatever we believe, we can't prove it so it's better to stop thinking of that conspiracy theory.

I don't believe that NBA is just a drama because there is a lot of features that proves its not like player drafting. If it is real then it will be a big advantage for those who is close to the NBA officials but it will be having no disadvantage for those guys who just bet because their chance of winning is still 50/50 but it will be a big disadvantage for those gamblers who uses statistics to know the probability of winning of each team because that statistics will go nothing if the game has been decided from the first.

Then how about to those games that happened in the past where big controversies about some certain game where calls are way too questionable and not justifiable?
This is why people will really do believe that there are shady stuffs that can happen in the league.Just take a look or listen out on this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPYyb2y3sw
Anyone who believes that the refs dont control games is delusional but i cant blame if they are really that die hard about on what they do believe.

When you say refs controlling the game, that's a whole bunce of refs controlling it, in the video, there's only one ref that was jailed for manipulating the game, so it should not affect the rest of the referees, and it's not proven that the NBA was ordering him to do that, it was just his own will on doing it for his personal satisfaction.

Got to agree with @Quidat. And even if we have no way to prove, we have our eyes to see and our own knowledge to judge if something fishy or not is really going on or not. And such actions are actually the start to more often than not, investigations about these kinds of issues. A fire wouldn't really start without a spark to light it right? Yes, there's a lot of missing info and controversies whenever we assume something is rigged, and hence why we let those higher ups know, and ask for confirmations or whatever. At the very least, give us an explanation, that's part of our right as a viewer imo.

Have we ever hear that the NBA investigated this alleged rigging of games? Me, I don't hear anything like that but I would be interested to know, maybe someone could share, all I see are just videos showing the game is rig, but there's no investigation or legal action coming from the NBA itself.

Me, I have heard of talks that some NBA games are rigged but all those are simply rumors in other words. And rumors that are coming from friends who probably also heard the same rumors from other friends. In other words, they are simply baseless and without proof.

If the NBA is rigged it is impossible that it won't somehow leak, enough for the league or even other teams to try to gather evidence. It cannot be kept secret forever. If there is still no proof of game fixing within the NBA until now that simply means there is no game fixing.

Yes, the association can review the play, but if there is no action from the association about rigging the game, people can not do anything. I am sure the referee will do their job with good without try to rigging the game.


The referee can get fined, fired, or other things if they are guilty. But if the association has corrupt officials, that will not happen, even if the referee has been proved of rigging the game. Yes, we hope that every referee can lead the game without try to rigging the game.

That's very possible but refs are already old enough to sacrifice their names and their job, for sure the price is right as they are willing to take things to this controversies.

If they are willing to risk everything, then we are not just talking with small amount of money but we are really dealing with thousand to millions worth of illegal activities.

Even how good the management the league have, there are always people who will do and offer
this kind of illegal business, money dictates and if it's really huge it's hard to resist.

I would never believe that NBA game can be rigged, of course there are a lot of cameras scatterd in a courtfor a live coverage how can we say that NBA game can be manipulated. I am a solid fan of basketball and NBA teams was really good teams that i know this teams will never allow to play in a rigged games. Every team has a respective strong player and the team itself has a potential to win the games without being manipulated or controlled by one person or even organization. Its hard to prove that this kind of game was rigged.

The punishments that organizations can impose when abuses are denounced are not bad. And when you consider how much money players do make in the NBA, I don't think there are players in this league working on that. Maybe a few divisions down, where money flows are significantly lower.

I'm curious about this. Can you share the theory you've read regarding about NBA being rigged?
It's obvious that rigged leagues are an advantage to bettors especially when they have info who's gonna win, it's an easy bet.

But for me, I still do believe that the NBA is not rigged unlike PBA (Philippine Basketball Association) in our country.
There are so many hyped teams this season especially the clippers who were predicted that will play against the lakers, doesn't make it.

Honestly I believe it's a disadvantage to bettors, at least the majority of bettors as not everyone can get an information about the fix game, if NBA will try to fix their game, it's not to give the majority of bettors a chance to win, but the minority only so bookies will make money in overall.

There's a lot of them to share actually, just search in google and watch youtube videos about "NBA RIG" that keywords would help you to find information and videos, but I'll tell you,  it's not provide, not a proven theory yet.


Well, everyone has their own opinion, and I expected that, but majority said yes in the poll, just a close race, 10-yes and 9-no so far.

If that thing comes because of money and the price is right to them, I think they can get tempted with that, and they will try to rig the games. But we can hope that we will have an honest referee to lead the games, so if some people want to mess up the games, they will not have a chance to do that.

We know that sometimes, behind the associations have a network like a mafia that wants to deal with every people who wants to get more money.

Well, most of the mainstream sports league and even eSports have theories like this where all of the results are already set up. If it's true, many NBA fans will be disappointed especially those who're truly supporting the team. Everything can be controlled by money, so that some theories might be possible but still we don't know, maybe they're doing it professionally since they've been in the scene for how many years and it's their job to earn income through sports.

and I've noticed some theories made by those content creators are just bitter to the result because the team they're supporting, lost. Anyways, like what you've said, it's their opinion towards it.

Even if some are convince that NBA is rig, that does not automatically make them hate the game, just like me, I love boxing at the same time, I was disappointed when Manny lose against Horn but that doesn't let me stop from watching more boxing fights, however, it already educate me that any sports are corrupt, but not it's entirety.

I also believe that normal season games could be rigged. But I don't presume this kind of things can happen on play-off games. I have been following NBA for years. There are too many unreasonable things happening on some matches.

Why not?

If I may ask, what do you think is the purpose why the NBA rig some games?

Regular season or playoffs is the same, if they proven rigging a single game, then we can assume that they will also do it with the other games.

Normal season games can sometimes be rigged. But I think that there is a very low chance to do something like that on playoff matches. I never watch normal season games because there are 82 games and it is too much. But I love watching playoff games. So, I don't have any idea if they do that in normal season games but I believe that playoff games are legit.

This fixing of games has been a conception built in the mind of mostly we bettors because, it very much affects us very much as prediction based on team ranking, individual strength, player quality, past history and etc. So, not being concerned is not an option for me.

These fixtures could be possible from the side of the referees and maybe when the players aren't so pleased with their couch and just wants to get rid of him or her and probably when the teams are already at a safe position in a league. And it doesn't happen just in the NBA both other sports too. Like football, WWE and the rest of them. It's wrong if this is being done but, it's really rear for this to happen and detecting it when it does is very difficult.

I don't think that even in the normal season games.

Are the mafias still on the league, maybe yes or not.

IMO. The normal games are even the hardest because if the team is not serious and they are throwing their games, the stats will reflect in the playoffs.

If they will try to rig games, they won't make it an obvious one, hence it will not affect the stats in overall.

For example, a certain team is +5.5 against the favorite team, and the favorite team had a comfortable lead of 7 points already which made him cover since there's few seconds left in the game, but.. .when refs made a bad call (foul) against the favorite team and sink all the 2 FT before the game is over.

so the game will end like 5 points win by the favorite but since they are giving -5.5, they lose.

What I'm trying to explain is the bad calls of the refs or those trash minutes that players are still dying to score though not necessary anymore.

There are questionable calls but when the refs do that, we're all thinking that it's part of the rig or any fixed match.

It really happens even in crucial games and in the finals but I don't think that can be said as rig, a ref can make a mistake too.

Clear act of rigging that may gamblers lose their bet.

Reality wise it's really happening, there are bad calls that being initialized that changed the outcome of the game, that certain scenario
only showed that there are other ways to wrecked the gambling industry, refs and those who are part of this underground business are
capable to do this and safely not being caught.
Though still rumors and hearsay as there are no evidence but ain't hard to see that we all witnessed this from those previous games that
take place within the league.

I think its more on hearsay because we/many people watch how the game is played but of course we cant deny that in some instances we can say unfair. Also, I consider human error too... I think its too ridiculous for a national games like an NBA to be rigged but who knows. A possibility maybe a player will be offered not to play well in favor of their rival but still its a shallow move.

We never know, right?

I am not doubting the reputation NBA had but I doubt that they are 100% clean when it comes to contexts like these. It might be players, referees, owners or managers, or other people that could influence someone, and as he said, if money dictates and if it is really that huge or maybe threaten, I don't think people would be able to resist and just put down their reputation.

Money, yes, that's all about the money, players could rig the game for them to win money from their bet outside, even the refs.

The rules of the NBA is, gamblers are not allowed to gamble on games they are playing, not sure if they can gamble with other games as it would result to a possible conflict of interest and we have seen that in movies where suddenly a good scorer failed to score, so that create some doubts from us from the sports we love but that would remain a doubt since it's hard to prove the conspiracy within.

We have our own judgment and call whether a call is questionable or not.

But to say just because of that questionable call, you'll distinguish that it's a rigged league. It doesn't go like that and don't be quick in judging just because of those calls.

Referees are just humans too, though they make the judgement to call a foul or not in a play, they can also make mistakes too, even the easy call, we also makes mistakes just like a player going for an uncontested lay up but still failed to shoot the ball, it happened, but then we can't stop people from making their own speculation.

All are right.

The speculations of others it to be rigged can't be stop though. With mistakes committed by refs, they will have hard time removing that thought just because of it.

Still, with good or bad calls, can't determine everything in NBA as what others are trying to think.

Everyone do have their own jurisdiction or conclusion towards those calls.We might understand for some several calls on not to be right or odd but if the severity would continue then thats
the time that everyone would really raise up their eyebrows that something is really happening into this game. Game can be rigged but for sure it would really be applied into several
games because if they do it on often manner then trust to the entire basketball organization will be shattered down.It isnt called a game but rather a business.  :D

It is a known business.

Accusations, thoughts and opinions are depending to the person. But if it's a very simple mistake.

It doesn't signify the whole org. Well anyway, you guys are right, we have our opinion.

If ain't moving according to how they'll understnad it there's nothing that anyone can do about it,
with or without any such things in the eyes of frustrated fans there's still something out there.

It's everyone own judgement even without a proof it will be stated and vocally expressed, NBA will continue to live like that
as there's always ghost being rigged from time to time.

You just need to look for the entertaining part and avoid stressing yourself so you can continue
enjoying those games from players and teams that you idolized.

That's very good advice.

We're for the entertainment but it can't be avoided that we'll hear some opinion telling us that it's rigged because of those foul and wrong calls.

Nothing's gonna change with those opinions but nevertheless, nba will stay with positive or negative opinion.

No big sports league that has not received any negative opinion from the people, we have millions or billions of watchers and some of that has a kind of different mind, trying to spot the abnormalities of the game and make a conspiracy theory, it will never grow old my friend, in the next generation we will still see a lot of content about rigged games but the league will still continue.

There's no clear and strong evidence that can prove that NBA is rigged, the NBA organization is one of the most organized sports organization in the world and they will charge, fine, and ban for life those who will rig the game, millions of fans are still supporting it and media still trust that all the game are fair and besides it's hard to rig a game because millions of people are watching, every wrong call will be questioned.

Yes, I guess in this generation we'll see more of those conspiracy theories.

About rigged games, accusations, other theories, which will result in disappointment that they've lost their bets to create those thoughts.

Your point is valid about NBA as organization is not rigged but I am feeling in one season we have few matches those rigged and they have some serious impact on teams and overall line up for play off's because these things happen in many other sports events as well so mostly we call this all with big upset or upset but this happen.

Because they need to blame somebody why they lost. Anyway, seeing the percentage of poll results, almost 50-50 here. It means a lot really believe that in some way, NBA is rigged. They can formulate conspiracy theories and the likes, but yes, the league goes on. And if they honestly believe that something is going on, then, don't place your bet. It will create stress on your part if you bet and then, if you lose, you will think of possible stories why the game ended up like that.

We like people to speculate as that only means the league is so popular, they don't have fans but they also have people who criticize them, and that makes them stronger as the more speculation the more people interested on the league, and the good side is that the conspiracy theory was never been proven by anyone in the court of law.

The funny part is, just because there are questioned games, it now leads that the whole league is rigged. And mostly, those people who believe that the NBA is rigged aren't even regular NBA followers and just read elsewhere that the NBA is rigged due to some few cases.

Surely, these doubters still bet on the NBA. It's just that, they generalize the idea in the whole NBA games.

NBA is not rigged, I'm sure of that. The only time I will believe that is if there's a legal action made by the league or a third-party.

And in that future, I am seeing esports being one of the most popular.

I doubt that people would just not be talking about rigged games or fixed games, as you've said, it will continue since we still have those fans or supporters that is salty about other teams' win. As I've said, we can't actually say that NBA is 100% clean, all we know is that we are having fun watching and betting on them and we are also curious about the league being rigged.

In everything, there's a conspiracy theory.

But I hope those theorists will just stop making accusations but if they put to proof that it's a rigged league, they're stronger than NBA.  :)

Yes, the game official don't want history to repeat it self in this season of the match, so they have to rigged so that the team young team that use to lose every year be the winner of the match in this season. Even the two teams are have strong players but one must surely loose either by rigging for their favour or against them because they game is going to end  1:4 to bring the winner out of the game.

They are just ranting and complaining where they want a person or organization that they can blame why they lose in betting. It is really funny where many people still think that there is a fixed match in every game but until now there are no proofs or data that can prove that fixing match are literally happen in NBA. The NBA have millions of fans all over the world and every game are always live where many people are really seeing every detail and every play. A certain audience can easily find out if there are fixing match but the thing is every player in NBA are doing their best to win. So do not believe in conspiracies because they are just creating theory out of nowhere. If you want to become a good bettor in NBA then try to improve your analysis skills in order to increase your winning rate.

Looks like you are so certain with your statement, can you site a specific game where the league is trying rigged and the underdog team won?

I'm so curious since your statement seems you are seeing what's happening, and not speculating.

You are right we have consipracy theory in every where but one thing is still right that we have too many mafia's and organisations which are very strong and can handle things like these very easily so its possible we have few matches rigged not in big numbers because its not possible and can create some big problems for all so I am also going with this option yes NBA is going with rigged games like many others games around the world because this is not possible we have not bad eggs in basket.

That's their right, but it will not affect the reputation of the sports if that conspiracy theories are without a valid evidence. It will only satisfy the mind of few people who are too doubtful of what they are seeing, but like I said, no evidence, sports league will remain and continue to be patronize by the majority of sports fans and enthusiast.

Even if theres an evidence those things will be kept and hidden.  :D

Lots of conspiracies or even videos on YouTube that there are certain games that really can be considered to be shady when it comes to ref calls or what.

For now it still questionable and still have on doubters that there are indeed rigged games and I do believe the same thing.It might not be that too obvious but there are instances

where these things do really happen.

The questionable and speculations are just on few games so NBA as a whole is not rigged.

Calling NBA as rigged because of those conspiracies videos is unfair at those who made the organization to where it is today.

There might be at some few games way back classic days but during that time, it was sure addressed by the league.

For a long time NBS isn't just basketball anymore and s lot has changed, for a worse. Unfortunately, NBA is not the only example and many sports today are suffering from the same issues
However, I strongly agree that we should look the good and entertaining side in it and support our favourite teams and players and enjoy the game, no matter how hard this may seem from time to time.

I agree with that as NBA represents the whole organization, one game being rigged does not mean every game is rigged, otherwise, it's easy to detect if they are consistently doing it, however, it's not proven yet, so it will remain an speculation.



Thing is, how do they addressed it when the NBA does not believe rigging games is happening inside?

One of the best ways to have a credible games or competitions is to make them hard/impossible to rig. You could put in place fraud-proof system by making it very transparent, open, rule-based, participatory, hard-to-abuse/manipulate, consensus-driven (esp for quick rejection or acceptance of referee decisions), etc.
I think It's OK for people to assume that certain games are rigged if they are indeed rig-able.

I really can't imagine there is match fixing at this level. Those players who all earn a fortune in the NBA. then why would they participate in such a thing? keeping in mind that if anyone finds out, they could be suspended for life or at least end their career.

They are not really the one participating, it's the referees who are rigging the games, players don't know about it because they are just playing while referees are doing the calling, that's why sometimes there are bad calls and one bad all already have significant effect to the game.

If you do some backreading, you'll be able to see videos shared of refs calling and not calling foul that should be called.

They are in charge of the game, they say when the refs is with a certain team, most of the time that team will win, even how bad they are as a team.

Depends on which part of NBA do you think it is rigged or not. If you think games are rigged, I do not agree with that, teams do fight as much as they can to win every single game, sure there are times players just do not care about the regular season game and best teams lose to worst teams because they just didn't cared enough, but it is not due to rigged games, it is just players being humans.

However if it comes to stuff like maybe changing a teams name, or location, or even draft draws as well, like Chicago getting rose was a big topic of discussion for being rigged, those things could be true, these are still important stuff obviously but it doesn't reflect specifically on one games result, and not things you usually can gamble on neither so it doesn't matter to us gamblers.

Bad calls or decisions will really be a big factor on a certain game thats why if you've been a fan of basketball and been watching for a while and know the rules then you would really
be having that question in mind on how the heck they do call it a foul if it wasnt.Rigging up games via referrees had been already prove out and one of them had really
admitted on what the association is trying to do so.Rigging up games isnt that something surprising but on todays era where i cant see any games that
do have some shady decision calls by refs.

There's still a lot today mate, but they are careful with it as we already have a media where people can freely published what they see, so it will be easy for people to know and the organization as a whole will be affected. I know one ref admitted that he is rigging the game but he did not say it was the order by the organization or the top management, it was only for his personal interest.

That ref was caught decades ago and there's been no proof of cheating or fixed games since.  I am aware that there is cheating someway somehow in every sport, but for there to be refs constantly fixing games in the NBA, I think the players would pick up on this.  Players care a lot about the outcome of game, they make a ton of money as is..if anyone knew it was going on they would and they wouldn't stand for it as a whole.

It's clear that once the refs make things like this the entire game is affected.

The outcome will favor the team that the ref are eyeing to win, no question about that. As there's really underrground things that may
happened as there's a huge money that even this people(ref) are willing to sacrifice everything. One good game over another means
huge money to pocket while working inside NBA.

Yes, its actually some of the referees that are messing up the tempo of the game. They would create this bad calls that are not even worth calling just to lower the morale of the team. Players would not even attempt to rig a game since it would be bad for their name and reputation however some referees are just bad and wanted more money from this kinds of establishments.

Sincerely, i can't see such take place with the consent of the players. Things like such do happen, though when they are happening only very few member boards are only aware and not the players, mostly the referees are the most dubious in the rigging. No one can debug rumors about fixed matches in the past and this can still happen to any league.     

Never knew that referee can be involved on this unethical act but i don't also believe that the players rig the game their self if without the instruction of their so called master Mind . players won't be afraid because of that because they are protected but they can be more afraid if they won't do it . they are already rich and why will they be afraid when they get kicked out but they can get more richier if they keep on doing this but this was only a conspiracy . Nba is too big and formal to be rigged but local sports can possibly be

It's only a conspiracy theory that everything is like that. People are good to catch scenes like this but all of those if for show, they'll be busted soon.
Some other not famous leagues can be said of being rigged. But to assume that NBA is, conspiracies.

Of course that referee will surely tell that he's been making bad calls due to his own personal interest and no one in the right mind on messing up a finals series just because he do really like for this
team to win because that would really be a bullshit excuse if someone do really believe into those claims.
When it comes to this then it will automatically involved the organization because they cant just let things happen without intervening even on the middle of the game if they
do saw that something isnt right with those calls.
Its just normal that he would protect and cover up those people who are on behind the curtains.

I really can't imagine that the NBA is being rigged, and by that i mean that a whole team is involved to let another team win or something.
That indivual players are bought to make 5 fouls before halftime or something like that is imaginable, you can also bet on stuff like that, but like i said the the whole league is rigged is impossible to me.
Buying a referee also won't help you to win in basketball i think.
There is just too much money involved just like in the NFL and in the european football (soccer) leagues that you can manipulate those completely.

It's definitely impossible if we are talking about the whole league being rigged, it's not a wrestling matched though.


No, it would help, what if refs would make bad calls to favor a certain team, that would help a certain team to win as refs decision is final, they can call a foul even without a foul and every points in basketball matters a lot especially if the game is close.

NBA was not rigged according to some of the observer of the match, that the new team play bass on experience to defeat the old team who claim they lose base on some players who just recover from isolation center 2 todays before the match. The game look like it was rigged before until second half were the new team put more effort to win the game.

Exactly, the refs are caught cheating but it was not by the order of the organization, it was only his personal motive to cheat the game for his satisfaction, with that said, it means NBA is not rigged but only refs or players trying to rig the game, it's already out of their control but they'll sanction them if they find people guilty of doing it.

I usually assume that some/most of such decisions by refs are mistakes/unintentional. But I don't think the mistakes should be left uncorrected once found. If mistakes were found after a game, the victims of such mistakes could be awarded points, serious mistakes should lead to replaying of the games/matches involved. This measures will help prevent officials (and others) from allowing future mistakes from happening
That should keep games credible,  acceptable by most/all & future abuses reduced

i think you are right with this they won't destroy their reputation that easily and lose revenue just to rig the game i agree that if there would be a rig here the organizations have nothing to do with it.

Therefore they have to ensure that they will penalized heavily those who are caught rigging games as the reputation of the league is at stake all the time. Billions of money will be loss due to one mistake only, I think they cannot afford that.

I agree that a bought referee can of course have an impact on a basketball game, but i also think that impact is very limited he can call a foul here or there which wasn't one but not to often or it becomes to obvious that something is fishy.
So it has to be a really close game that those few bad calls of the referee can make the difference, as someone who wants to manipilute a game to have a sure bet that would be way to uncertain for me.
If you look at football (soccer for americans) 1 goal can make the difference there, so if the referee calls a penalty without someone fouling then this definitely has a huge impact.
The higher leagues have the video assistant referee now so i don't think it's doable there anymore but in lower league it's still possible.

Looking to that persfectives, The league established their reputations and there are lots of fans and advertisers who already working the business, it's a billion dollar revenue that they are protecting those people behind the organization may need to think twice before taking this kind of illegalities around it.

With some allegations that provides solid evidence everything will fall apart, they will value what they've already established.

Of course, if it were rigged, it would be a disadvantage to us bettors. All our attempts of researching would become pointless. But the good news is that it's not rigged. :) And my vote went for NO.

Since the 2007 NBA betting scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal#:~:text=On%20August%2015%2C%202007%2C%20Donaghy,the%20news%20of%20this%20scandal.) there were no serious accusations against the NBA, and even that case didn't imply the games were rigged.

Its really a disadvantage for us yet this wont really be going with the path on what you had analyzed since its been rigged.So far i agree that aside on that 2007 event where

there are no other incident about possible rigging or shady calls.We cant completely say NO that it isnt rigged if it happened in the past but those were just allegations but

theres no solid proof that had been presented so it can be still considered on not to be a valid one.We can have our own insights though but majority is believing on the same thing.

The only way the games can be rigged is through referees because look the players playing the NBA game are young and talented but they are paid way beyond what a fixer would pay them and they know if the match fixing is caught their contracts will end, their careers will come to a halt and most important they even will have to forfeit the money they took from the fixer/gambler.

Referees on the other hand play a big role like they also play a big role in MLB for calling Strike and someone who watches these leagues know how crucial a single strike call can be and what impact it has on the entire game. Similarly they can make a bad call or a no-foul call in the last moments of an NBA game and change it completely and they are not paid close to what players earn so they are the soft target.

It would be if we are following what the public think, if games are rigged, that should be in favor against the public as public bets are bigger, or we can expect that it's the favorites that will lose if games are rigged. There's a lot of ways of rigging games, it could be in the straight up result, point spread, and even in total.



I still see some of the conspiracy theories in youtube videos, but it remained that way

I don't think the issue with the referees is considered as rigged. It is just they have their favorable team that's why they make a way to give advantage to that team. If you say rigged, it means that the winning team is already set but since it is just the referees who are making a way to do that, it is not considered as rigged at all.

They don't care about the money anymore, that is the only explanation for that. Winning the NBA Finals is one of the greatest achievements an NBA player could have. As far as I know, there is a lot of match-fixing in the past and I think that is not just the talk including the players but also some names that are maybe, betting huge money on the game.

There's an speculation but there's nothing proven yet, only one referee though, but that was a long time ago, in fact he was jailed for years IIRC.
Well, because of what happen, we can't prevent people from thinking that some games are rigged or the organization is, but that is their right, they are a fan they love basketball so they care about it.

I don't believe in game-fixing in the NBA although there were rumors that there is a syndicate that is inside the NBA doing such a thing although there was concrete evidence about it, when I was in high school there are rumors circulating that the reason MJ father died is that MJ refuses to drop the game, which I think is speculation, I'm not sure.

We can't talk about evidence because there was really no evidence, otherwise NBA would not anymore exist now.

As big as they are, they also have big influence and they will do everything to keep their good reputation as that is the only thing that makes them attract people to like their league, everything is just a speculation, but it's good to see some speculation as it makes the league exciting to bet.

Long before when I was a kid I used to believe that WWE is real 🤣 now we all know the reality. When we talk about NBA , there for sure have been accusations but at the same time I do believe that not all matches are rigged and therefore game fixing only works when the players and the team alike decides to actually go through with it and it's a long and hard Task.

Therefore there is a possibility BUT not all matches are for sure fixed.

As long as it's a central body and there is option of winning millions there will for sure be a way where people will try and find loopholes and use them for their advantage.

-match fixing only works when the players and the teams agree which is a long task and statically possibility is very less.

The conspiracy theories sometimes fun to read/watch about, but I can't seriously consider them when there are no real proofs. In my opinion, there's too much money involved, hundreds of millions USD, in advertising during NBA games to risk losing it by trying to rig the games.

it is true that it was totally disadvantage to us who analyzing the game it self, and search for the news who will be the team player , and if it's really rigged then those who already knows what will happen it will be advantage to them to bet big money and earn money from different gambling site or people.
And yet so far there's since i am fan of basketball i didn't hear anything about this kind of issue maybe there is a time that game reach it into game 5 ang some of score is 3-1 and sometimes it will become tie to 3-3 but this kinda of exciting for us bettors to choose the real team who will win.

Well it's all fun and games until one dude takes it seriously and delves into so much info that is probably closely fabricated and then proceeds to talk trash of the entire community. And imo, it's not a matter of money at that kind of stage tbh. Ofc, it doesn't mean that they'd ignore the money, but they could still rig small things while being unseen, especially since fame have the same importance as money when you have enough of one of them. It's like how people spend money to become famous, or they become famous to obtain money.

Well if there was any evidence, even if NBA would still stand, a few teams here and there would've come and go, and a lot of players would've been banned from joining NBA permanently. Not that impossible imo, after all, rules are rules.

Yes so far there's no still an evidence about their claim about the rigged games of the NBA I also don't think they will let it happen since if the community knows that it was rigged I don't think any people will be interested anymore on this game.

 Many gambler never still believe NBA match was not rigged, just that the game look, as if it was rigged for their advantage until the officials really analysis the details of the match before they now believe the match was not rigged which is disadvantage to them.
It hard the officials to identify the winner of the match because the last goal didn't look like goal for their eyes, until they really investigate the game to discover is a clear goal for the team to become winner of NBA.

I think it's hard to rig this game since you see players playing on the basketball court. You may be suspicious about referred acting erratically favoring some teams , or a star player no playing well in favor of their opponent, etc., but it is hard to justify this because sometimes it can be human error.

If we don't know about rigged or not, maybe we don't have to think about that because that will need evidence and not just rumors. We can not prove that because I think if that really happens, any high-level officers will hide that from the public because that can make the organization will get critics. As a popular game, I guess there will be a syndicate inside the games, even if we don't know if that is real or not.

There are too many instances where it would have been impossible for NBA to be rigged because too many bad things happened and rigged league wouldn't allow that.

Just recently Sacramento and Bucks had a deal on a hand shake basis (well not technically shaking hands, probably on the phone) where they would trade Bogdanovic to Bucks and that was definitely a great move for Bucks, however Bogdanovic said he doesn't want to go to Bucks and instead of doing a sign and trade dude went FA and now looking for other teams.

Or maybe the time when league had 4 years in a row cavs vs warriors where viewership went down a lot? Or this year Miami and Lakers were sooooo obvious who would win and ratings went down 30%+ because everybody knew Lakers would win.

There are million ways NBA could rig things and get a lot more money, but they keep not doing it because it is not rigged at all.

It looks like some of the people still believes that the NBA is rigged. I was thinking how did they think that it was rigged? I mean how did they get the idea? Is there any news or reported before that the NBA is rigged? I was curious about it.

Yeah, I am one of them but I'm not yet fully convinced that's why this thread was created to gain more opinion from fans.

You might want to check some videos, open your browser, open youtube and type NBA is rigged or NBA rigged, videos will pop up, and if you are interested you can watch all of it with your popcorn or some bear in the table.  ;D

All are opinion based there are no specific news or any concrete basis that the game was rigged.
Most are from those who loses their bets along the way, and with some wrong calls or something
that take place which ain't favoring their teams or players concluded that it was been rigged already,
maybe if there's evidences that cnclusive to the game it's already been brought out from the organization
itself, for now you will keep reading about the possibilities but there's no solid proof to conclude.

I like if there's no proof even if in reality there's a rigging of games happening inside, that gives us an advantage to bet because we will not select a team which is a sure sucker bets. Also, if rig happens and there's an evidence about it, I'm afraid we would wish it did not happen as it will remove our pleasure to bet on NBA games, so it's better this way.  :)

It could be better for few people but not good for the majority of fans who was expecting the game is clean and free from any manipulation. You have your personal thoughts or beliefs but I'm sure once there's a clear evidence of them rigging the game, the league will be abolish whether we like it or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_basketball

Established in 1946 so they have been running for 7 decades and 4 years, that means they are so established already, hard to bring this down to be honest.

Abolishing the game would be so great a penalty and I'm not sure that would help at all. In fact, people would prefer the game be rigged or whatever rather than it been abolished permanently.
Imagine the lots of athletes that would be loosing there career and the millions of fans that would be missing their best sports, teams, players to cheer, would have to turn to other sports and lots of things like that. Abolishing it won't seem like a fair punishment but, tracing the culprits from the root, fining them and abolishing them from being involved in sports might just be a lesson to them and any other set of persons looking to influence sporting activities in this way.

I don't believe that the NBA is rigged, there could be bad referee calls, bad plays or unintentional moves, or even miscommunication in between the game. Just in case players are found to be irresponsible as an athlete they are penalized or even taken off the game, even for referees there are committees to check if their calls are fair or unbias. Athletes are training hard to play dramas in their field and to sell a game.

You cannot change nor exterminate the beliefs of those people that nba is rigged. Too much of the conspiracies and discussions about nba as a rigged game.

It all started with their curiosity and as you know, we as human beings has a wide set of imagination.

I agree with it, we are humans with wide imagination so there are people who really are so curious and sometimes make some videos online of conspiracy theories based on the game they saw and put a clip of it in the video, those who are interested might be able to watch it and somehow it could convince their mind that conspiracies' do exist.

 I was very much interested in the thread when it started, to be certain that what happens in wrestling (I read the wrestlers are acting or something) doesn't happen in football/soccer & NBA, or that matches aren't fixed or rigged in favour of a team.
Ofcourse, I have heard/read on national news media many years ago of teams/referees getting penalized for cheating/matche-fixing. So, they clearly happened in the past and could still be happening in any sports/competition. It's OK to ask questions.

They are not going to be the one who will decide, we have regulators that will investigate and on this and it's illegal to rig games for the benefit of the organization or people running it, we don't want to see a fake game, that's a complete destruction of our trust to them, so they don't deserve to stay.

You may not agree but that's gonna happen when regulators will take over.

Honestly, sometimes I believe that it was rigged due to some circumstances like referees have a biased team or what because there are some cases of violation that they haven't called for, yada yada, and more.
Moreover, I heard some rumors about MJ, that there big people or syndicate ended the life of his father because he refuses to drop the game. Honestly, I don't know if I'm gonna believe that because it was just a rumor after all. However, I don't think the NBA organization wouldn't let this happen, they wouldn't let this so-called syndicate intervene in the game, are they? Rumors will be rumors unless the statement will be proven.

This is how popular and loved the NBA ,even the season is finished yet the issue lives on hahaha.

is there no recess as the association is resting for a while  ::)


But kidding aside?i believe there are some non tolerated event but not enough to call "Rigged" and besides the association is acting in every issue comes along the way so lets leave it for now.

At least in wrestling we know it's an entertainment and we know what they've shown is not real, just for the sake to give the fans entertainment, NBA is different, they have some credibility that the game is not rig, every team plays hard to win and referees are doing their job well, but there are people who have some doubts on that, that's why this "nba is rig" theory exist.

It is right. The regulators will investigate the organization if they are suspicious and think that something gets rigged.
We need to trust the regulators to investigate because they will make sure that the game is not rigged.
That will be different if one of the regulators gets bribed by the organizations or by some people to give a fake result to the public.
Maybe we don't know the truth, but it could happen not just the NBA association, so the regulators need to work hard to find the people who did that.
But I agree with tracing the culprits from the root, fining them and abolishing them from being involved in sports because that can do the sports, especially the NBA will clean from the rigged.
I think that is not just a job for the association, but it will be a job for all people involved in that sport.

It is the most popular basketball league in the world so they'll always get accusations, issues, and thoughts like this.

Internet warriors are the ones who tell that if something is wrong, it's already rigged management and league. But that's not that real factor and those are baseless accusations.

Welcome to the modern internet world.

Since the next season havent started yet then this never-ending discussion about rigging up NBA games wouldnt really be stopped and people would make up
discussions like this and since there are opposing sides that do express out their opinions and views then expect that there would really be argumentations.
There are allegations and issues about rigging up games in previous years but those arent really being justified or had been proven thats why this
do always remain as a rumor or somewhat.