Do you believe NBA is rigged?

[RealMalatesta]

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.

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[zidanw]

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.

[stadus]

It looks like some of the people still believes that the NBA is rigged.

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.

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.

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. 

[Golftech]

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.

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.

[mirakal]

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.

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. 

[Natalim]

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.

[Smartvirus]

once there's a clear evidence of them rigging the game, the league will be abolish whether we like it or not.

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.

[Genemind]

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.

[livingfree]

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.

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.

[Questat]

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.

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.

[Ucy]

It looks like some of the people still believes that the NBA is rigged.

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.

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.

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.  

 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.

[Natalim]

once there's a clear evidence of them rigging the game, the league will be abolish whether we like it or not.

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.

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.

[blckhawk]

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.

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.

[bitterguy28]

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.

[stadus]

It looks like some of the people still believes that the NBA is rigged.

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.

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.

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.  

 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.

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.

[traderethereum]

once there's a clear evidence of them rigging the game, the league will be abolish whether we like it or not.

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.

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.

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.

[livingfree]

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.

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.

[Quidat]

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.

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.