Do you believe NBA is rigged?

[wxa7115]

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.

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.

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[mezzaluna]

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.

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.

[BITCOIN4X]

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.

[freedomgo]

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.

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.

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.

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.

[Mauser]

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.

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.

[Ziskinberg]

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.

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.

[michellee]

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.

[Ziskinberg]

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

[Reid]

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

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.

In the playoffs, players are fined $5,000 for their first flopping offense, $10,000 for a second, $15,000 for a third, and $30,000 for a fourth. Any player who flops five or more times could be suspended.

Wikipedia

[erikoy]

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.

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.

[Sadlife]

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.

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.

[yazher]

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.

[freedomgo]

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.

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

[darewaller]

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.

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.

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.

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.

The income between the referee and the player will be different because the player is a star at the stadium.

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.

[Mahanton]

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.

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.

[tippytoes]

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.

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.

[Pamadar]

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.

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.

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.

[smyslov]

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.

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.

[Gotumoot]

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.

[iTradeChips]

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.

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.

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.