Do you believe NBA is rigged?

[QueenVera]

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?

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.

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[Casdinyard]

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 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.

[GDragon]

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.

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.

[CarnagexD]

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.

[Shasha80]

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.

[DabsPoorVersion]

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.

[erikoy]

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.

[plr]

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.

[Reatim]

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.

[Genemind]

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.

[Twinkledoe]

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.

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.

[Janation]

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.

[matchi2011]

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.

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.

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.

[acener]

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.

[BTCappu]

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

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.

[stadus]

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.

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.

[pilosopotasyo]

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.

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.

[yazher]

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.



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.

[freedomgo]

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.



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.

[Wexnident]

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://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