The main argument is games being fixed, and this can be done primarily through bad officiating that is easily detected by fans. Data Provided By These are by far the most notorious rigged games in recent memory. The Cavaliers got LeBron James back over the summer as well. 9 9. All of the pieces fit. Mr. FISHER: Games are called differently every night. 1 Dallas, and then an underwhelming Cavs team in the finals. I don't believe the Knicks had any real shot of winning this game, even under fair circumstances, but the refs didn't exactly help. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. If you search "NBA rigged" on YouTube, the first three videos are about this game. If the same play happened with Hakeem Olajuwon defending Kareem, I doubt there's a whistle. 3. ", record-setting parade to the free throw line. Or this. I guess our time has to come at another time, Adelman said. The Knicks shot the same number of free throws as times they were called for charging. Ted Bernhardt's calls slightly favored the Lakers, and Dick Bavetta's calls, especially late in the game, were more in favor of the Lakers than anyone. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. The accusations are contained in a four-page letter, sent to U.S. District Judge Carol Amon, as part of Donaghy's plea for a lighter sentence. Brown got into a fight. However, the Kings secured the 3-2 series advantage in a nail-biting game-five win, 92-91. The Lakers averaged roughly 25 free throw attempts per game over the series' first five games. I think that there is a blatant star system involved in the NBA. There was a scrum for the rebound and Divac batted the ball away from the basket in an attempt to drain whatever time remained. If the refs would have gotten a single call right, the Pistons would have won the series. In Game 2 of the 2008 NBA finals, the Lakers shot 10 free throws. If you wanted to say the league's best interests were for Kobe to win this series and instructed the refs accordingly, this is probably a good place to start. While Webber returned to the court for the Kings after microfracture surgery and nearly a year after his injury, the team never recovered. Doubtful. Getting off of the bench. If you wanted excitement, you had to look to the Eastern Conference and the race for at least a berth in the NBA Finals. GOLDMAN: But yesterday, Pollard's comments were measured. A former referee at the center of a gambling scandal has alleged that NBA referees rigged a 2002 playoff series to force it to seven games. The series, it seemed, deserved nothing less. Pollard, who was careful not to pin the result on refereeing, said he remembered feeling that there was something amiss early on in the game and a feeling of helplessness. ONeal was controlling the paint, aided by the whistles Pollard fouled out in just 11 minutes of court time. Finals MVP: Tim Duncan (24.2 / 17.0 / 5.3) 2003 Playoff Leaders: PTS: Tim Duncan (593) TRB: Tim Duncan (369) AST: Jason Kidd (163) He added, "He may be willing to say anything to help his cause and he may believe these most recent allegations will help his agenda." The NBA has yet to publicize the results of its review, which was conducted by an outside lawyer, Lawrence Pedowitz. The NBA Draft Lottery is the easiest to rig, and rigging the lottery can be done out of the public view. The Cleveland Cavaliers won the draft lottery once again for the third time in fiveyears. The refs knew this and had their whistles ready because of it. The NBA would much rather send the Lakers over the Kings to the finals for theTVratings and for the profit. The Lakers fell to a resurgent San Antonio Spurs team in six games, with inter-team tension between ONeal and Bryant perhaps at its all-time high. Would he have called the foul on Fisher at 1:27 that helped bring the Kings back within a point with plenty of time left? Stern did not respond to specific allegations but said that the NBA had fully cooperated with the government since last summer. He ended up shooting 6-of-24 from the field, but I believe at one point he was something like 2-of-17. At the time the league had owned the New Orleans Hornets. Period. Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant went down in history as the greatest LA Lakers duo. Bill Laimbeer was notoriously hated by everyone, especially the refs. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Donaghy is scheduled to be sentenced on July 14. 2002 Western Conference Finals On the court, the games between the two teams were definitely intense, culminating in the 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals, which featured Robert Horry's famous last-second three-pointer to beat the Kings in Game 4, a 1 point Kings win off of a Bibby field goal in the waning seconds of Game 5, a My reaction to Game 1 of the 2012 Knicks-Heat first-round series was brash and premature. This means that the more successful the big market teams are, the better off the NBA is in terms of revenue. But the referees/league didnt allow the better team to win.. With the Western Conference then dominant, that game seemed like the tallest hurdle remaining between the Kings and a championship. The officiating seemed so uneven, it prompted consumer advocate Ralph Nader to call for an investigation. Can that be true? The Lakers went on to win the series and beat the Nets for their third straight NBA title. Watch the replay. This is what should have happened. He never struck me as someone particularly worried about competitive balance and fairness. This video shows every bad call of that game. Klay Thompson said he'd "never respect floppers." Web2003 NBA Western Conference Finals Mavericks vs. Spurs League Champion: San Antonio Spurs. Lauro argued that the NBA must provide all of its documentation to justify the restitution claim. With Sabonis out of the game, the Blazers had to defend Shaqat his absolute apexwith 6'8'' Brian Grant. The prevailing theory here is that the NBA saw a fan base that was turned off from basketball after LeBrons decision. Having watched it live and seen the replays several times, I can say that it doesn't fade with time. Whistles can swing games, series and ultimately championships. But that amazing "final" moment to Jordan's career wasn't real. The images: Divacs fifth foul call. A missed three at the end of the game by a still bleeding Bibby to give the Lakers the win. David Stern the NBA Commissioner was a native New Yorker and he allegedly bent the Knicks envelope so that he would know which envelope to choose, and this assured Ewing would go to the Knicks. The teams were not named in the court documents, but according to investigators, the Western Conference Finals was the only seven-game series that year. Between Games 5 and 6, which would be played back in Los Angeles, both Jackson, a famous lobbyer of refs often fined by the commissioner for his post-game comments, and ONeal griped in the media about how Game 5 had been called in the paint. Ex-NBA Referee Pleads Guilty to Felony Charges, Ex-NBA Ref's Scandal Rankles His Hometown, Commissioner Says NBA Deserves Benefit of Doubt, Stats of NBA Referee Combed for Clues to Gambling. Please logout and login again. GOLDMAN: Scot Pollard played for Sacramento in the 2002 game. The officials awarded Wade free throws instead of an offensive foul, and the Heat went on to win their fourth straight game to win the title. "Tim Donaghy has had honesty and credibility issues from the get-go," he said in a statement. Cartilage in his left knee tore, and everything changed for both Webber and the Kings. The Hornets had a 13% at getting the top pick, and it wasnt a shock to conspiracy theorists that they landed the pick because it seemed like the league was making up for vetoing the first Chris Paul trade a season earlier. I dont know. This series still sickens me. Yet a foul was called and Larry Johnson got to shoot a free throw in addition to the three-pointer he just made. What was their crime? As a team, the Celtics did 17 times. WebWhat if the 2002 Sacramento Kings were not screwed by the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals? They won the first two games of this series at home and if Smith would have gone to the foul line here and made both free throws, they would have won Game 5. In fact, he says the NBA did not contact him. It was game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals. If Ron Artest's three-pointer bricks in the final minutes, the Celtics may have won the game and the media would never stop talking about how Kobe can't beat the Celtics. Sacramento had beenessentially apoverty franchise for a long time. Why this gets an honorable mention is that it's the single dumbest rule in all of sports. But the mother ship of NBA conspiracy theories remains Game 6 of the classic 2002 Western Conference Finals between the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers and the upstart Sacramento Kings. Let's look at the 10 worst officiating moments in NBA history and what they mean in the grand scheme of things. Stern vehemently denied the allegations when the book was released. It was hard to see that in how each referees calls broke down. He found that the questionable, or to his eyes, flat out incorrect, calls favored the Lakers not in huge numbers (nine total calls), but a very lopsided (7-2) rate. In many ways, ONeal had transformed refereeing in the post, due to his rare blend of height and girth, which meant nearly every play he was involved in turned into a tangle of limbs beneath the basket. In 2000-2002, the Lakers topped the basketball world by winning a three-peat in the NBA Finals. It was a fitting way for Michael Jordan to end his career. Because there's nothing wrong with being angry when someone attacks your friend or teammate. This was due to the Bulls being without superstar Michael Jordan, and the team's fate now rested on the shoulders of Scottie Pippen. For some reason, numbers like that don't convince people, so let's go back and look. I don't think it's a 100 percent clear foul, and refs are generally supposed to let players decide games in the final moments without whistles. But was the game rigged? But what's worst of all? This is probably the only call in NBA history to definitively swing a title, which is why it's so high on this list. A lot. His shot missed. The Sacramento Kings were in the drivers seat to knocking off a young exciting Los Angeles Lakers team that featured Shaquille ONeal and Kobe Bryant, but the referees decided to take matters into their own hands. It happens fairly often, but in Game 7 of the finals? They got lucky on a fluke. No one else has been charged with a crime. There was once a time when NBA fans were all convinced that Chris Paul was heading to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Knicks would go on to win the series and make the NBA Finals. Indiana was the better team (the Knicks were the No. I recommend you read his entire, very sober explanation. A Bryant elbow on Bibby with 12 seconds left and the Kings down just one point that resulted in a bloody nose but not a foul call. Remember, if not for a miracle three-pointer by Robert Horry and the travesty known as Game 6, the Kings would have won this series five games to one (I know that's impossible, but hang with me here). Mutumbo sent out a tweet congratulating the Philadelphia 76ers on getting the first pick in the draft hours before the lottery was going to be televised. This would make the top five of this list, but it's technically in line with the rules. Accuracy and availability may vary. After a back-and-forth Game 5 at Arco Arena that saw multiple lead changes and superb performances by both ONeal (28 points on 14 of 18 shooting) and Webber (29 points and 13 rebounds), the Lakers led 91-90 with 11 seconds to go. What is lost here is that Michael Jordan blatantly pushed off of Bryon Russell. Bryant drove into the paint and put up a shot, missing. Unfortunately for Maverick players, supporters and ultimately fans everywhere, that legacy was built for him. However, I'm willing to overlook this call. The 2001 Bucks team was a memorable squad, surrounded . Then, late in the third quarter of Game 2, things changed. Mutumbo Congratulates Sixers On 1st Pick In 2016, 1. When one team shoots 28 more free throws than the other, you have to look into it. 2016 Western Conference Finals Rigged? And yet--, Sacramento had the best team in the league, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy wrote in an email interview about the series. Ted Bernhardt left the NBA in 2006 and was arrested in 2010 for causing a disturbance at a former girlfriends house. Viewed together, and paired with the context of the series and the amount of money the NBA stood to gain from a Game 7, a different picture emerges. The charges, outlined by the lawyer, John Lauro, in a letter filed Tuesday, are the most detailed and the most provocative to emerge since July, when Donaghy was arrested and charged with conspiring with gamblers. I don't think there was any foul play here. I'm willing to give a slight pass to the NBA for what happened in 1997. In 2002, the Sacramento Kings appeared to have the LA Lakers' number. Despite the questionable calls, the Kings were shooting well and entered the quarter tied at 75. With 14 seconds left and the Pistons up by one, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was fouled by Bill Laimbeer on a play where Laimbeer did not appear to even touch Jabbar. His flopping was so blatantly obvious that multiple NBA players actually tweeted about it. According to his Facebook page, he is working on a book entitled Honest to a Fault. In his book Personal Foul, Donaghy wrote that As soon as the referees for the game were chosen, the rest of us [other NBA refs] knew immediately there would be a Game 7. Asked to elaborate, Donaghy wrote me that Bavetta would always say he was the NBAs go to guy and he would always help make the series go another game he said [this] to me before the game in L.A.. Pippen led the Bulls to a great 1993-94 NBA season by leading the team to 50 plus wins and a match up with the New York Knicks in the second round of the playoffs. Stern never publicly responded to Naders call, but the four-time presidential candidate says he did speak with the commissioner, who offered a whitewash.. ONeal helped the Magic greatly improve just barely missing out on the playoffs in the 1992-93 NBA season. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. His sentencing is scheduled for next month. Well You could convince me of one. We didn't have a chance to win that game. According to Donaghy, NBA executives directed referees "to manipulate games" in order to "boost ticket sales and television ratings," and he cited several examples. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Many believe that the Kings should've won the series. Two of Portland's biggest stars (Scottie Pippen and Arvydas Sabonis) fouled out. But still, this call only came in Game 3. The teams owners, brothers and businessmen Joe and Gavin Maloof, led the way from their courtside seats, running from section to section like hype men at a rap concert. The Kings, their fans and many in the news media were outraged by the officiating that night. The New York Knicks were on a miracle run through the playoffs as the eighth seed, and had made it all the way to theEastern Conference Finals to face off with the rival Indiana Pacers. The three that we rank as the most important are Game 7 It was a classless, unprovoked move that ultimately resulted in the Spurs winning the series. Obviously when one team is shooting 21 more free throws than the other, it doesn't look very good. After an easy 124-113 over the Mavs in Game 1, there was no reason to think things were going to change. We'll see how this plays out over the rest of the 2012 playoffs, but if LeBron continues to get calls like this, then the conspiracy theorists will get plenty of evidence of the NBA rigging games. The Shaquille ONeal and Kobe Bryant-led Lakers were the defending NBA champions, while the Kings, with star Chris Webber and a superb supporting cast, seemed poised for a breakthrough. Subscribe to Stathead Basketball: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Basketball Reference Database. We'll remember the careers of Steve Nash, Tim Duncan, Robert Horry and Amare Stoudemire differently because of it. And he's going to be sentenced for that crime, regardless of these desperate attempts to implicate as many people as he can." The poster boy of the NBA is LeBron James, and things were not looking up for James and the Cavaliers in the 2016 NBA Finals. Never in the history not only of basketball, but of sports as a whole, have referees so blatantly and continuously attempted to hand a championship to a player and team. We had a chance and we blew it.. The theory here is that the league realized it had a young rising superstar in Dwyane Wade, and they saw an opportunity to elevate Wade even more through this finals series. My personal favorite? Webbers clean block on Bryant negated by a ghost foul on Kings guard Doug Christie. Cleveland Cavaliers GetThe First Pick Again In 2014. All rights reserved. That free throw turned a tie into a one-point Knicks lead and victory. The fact that the NBA let a technicality swing a championship is just flat-out wrong. At halftime, Chris Webber told us to just count on playing against eight out there, Pollard said, referring to the five Lakers on the court and the three referees. Of course not. All the lottery teams coveted Patrick Ewing of Georgetown. But still, it was only one game, which is why it loses the No. 1988 NBA finals: The Detroit Pistons cheated out of a championship, 13. Roland Beech of 82games.com has spent serious time detailing every single call of the notorious Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals. If you don't think those free throws are important, remember that Games 3, 5 and 6 were all determined by three points or less. Even with the new lottery in place teams still tanked. At the tip of Game Four, the Kings came out like gangbusters, seemingly intent on ripping out the Lakers heart out then and there. Robert Horry checked Steve Nash out of nowhere. They believe that the referees act in the best Hundreds of reporters are here for the finals, and many of them descended on two players at yesterday's media sessions. You know the game has turned into a joke when at halftime "and the Oscar goes to" is trending on Twitter. If they call it like theyre supposed to call it, the outcome will be the same it was tonight, ONeal said after the game. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Then 96-93. He just does not see it. The claim came after the 2002 Western Conference Finals matchup between the LA Lakers and the Sacramento Kings. This gets to the heart of the matter to me: despite the NBA's official claim that 95% of calls are correct over a season, there are just too many plays that are far from being clear cut wrong/right and many that fall into a gray area where even watching a play many times in slow motion you can make a case for different verdicts. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. But when 12 of those fouls come at the expense of the guys responsible for holding down the opponent's two biggest stars, it starts to look really suspicious. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. The letter describes a 2002 playoff series that went seven games; the Western Conference finals was the only series to require seven games. With a slim 1.5% of winning the 1993 draft lottery the Magic won it, and selected Chris Webber first overall who they later traded away for Penny Hardaway. Some people cry conspiracy, claiming the game is rigged. Then the Clippers pick became the first pick in the draft against all odds, and the NBA had again made basketball relevant in the state of Ohio. The Bogus Hue Hollins call in the 1994 Eastern Conferance Semi Final, 10. The score crept to 80-73. 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Surely it would be hard for any team to move past these two struggling franchises, but the league saw an opportunity to again cause controversy. The game caused such immediate and public blowback that even consumer advocate and perennial Presidential candidate Ralph Nader got involved. In 2008, during his sentencing, Donaghys allegations regarding the NBA and the 2002 Western Conference Finals were released through his lawyers in a filing. All rights reserved. Though they returned to the playoffs in 2004, 2005 and 2006, what had seemed a dynasty-in-waiting never again made it back to the Western Conference Finals. The Lakers had Kobe and Shaq. It's rare for an announcer to comment on officiating, but he couldn't contain it saying "I'm just not gonna say anything anymore. Additionally, the Lakers wereaveraging25 free throw attempts for the entire series, which is much more than the average team gets to shoot. The Lakers led at halftime but Thomas scored 25 points in the third quarter despite severely spraining his ankle in that same quarter. Viewed separately, the missed calls of Game 6 can all be understood and forgiven as part of the flow of the game. And honestly? In 2002, the Sacramento Kings appeared to have the LA Lakers' number. Pistons win. Web2002 West Finals - LA Lakers vs Sacramento Kings Game 4 Highlights HD - Famous Buzzer. WebHowever, when Minnesota lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers gained home court advantage for the NBA Finals because the Lakers posted a better regular season record at 56-26 than the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons at 5428. (And remember, Beech is no company man. You know, one team will shoot 30 free throws one game, and the next game, the other team will shoot 30 free throws. When the 76ers got the first pick in the draft later that night no one was surprised. Tim Donaghy also says the NBA routinely encouraged referees to ring up bogus fouls to manipulate results but ignore calls against star players. At best, some of the calls against the Kings big men, like here and here, were dubious. Theres no question in my mind that we were the better team. Pollard was a reserve power forward and center for the Kings, a bleach blonde energizer known as much for his candor as for his rebounding. As we know, the NBA is a league that runs on revenue. Yes, at a glance you can see the Lakers got some advantage from the calls down the stretch, but if Bavetta was really trying to rig the game, would he have called a tie up jump ball at the 3:26 mark (and subsequently had a bad toss that gave the ball to the Kings) with the Kings ahead by two when he could have called a foul on Divac? Log in, First off, wemustsee what the motive was for the National Basketball Association to rig the games. What is unfortunate is that in the NBA, refs get it wrong. Still an offensive foul on Kobe there could have changed the outcome! He fouled out, committing six personal fouls in only 11 minutes of play. This years playoffs added a dubious and crucial non-call benefitting the Miami Heat in their Eastern Conference matchup against the Boston Celtics to the conspiracy canon. In Game 5 of the 1997 Eastern Conference semifinals, Charlie Ward and P.J. Clinched a playoff berth [ edit] Join our linker program. Another Western Conference Finals between the two archrivals felt destined when they ended up on opposite ends of the bracket come playoff time, the Kings as the 2 seed and Pacific Division champions and the Lakers as the 5 seed and reigning NBA champions. Be the first one to comment on this story. When he was in his prime, he was unstoppable.. Through it all, however, Beech finds it very tough to support the notion that the game was rigged. Shaq was overly physical, and the refs didn't call many fouls. 25 free throws for the Kings over the course of the game two less than the Lakers shot in the last quarter alone. We missed a ton of free throws and a ton of jumpers in the fourth quarter, Pollard said. Orlando Magic Somehow Win The 1993 Lottery, 12. Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. Familiarity breeds animosity, Pollard said, citing the multiple times the in-state rivals, representing the coast and cow town, as Lakers coach Phil Jackson contemptuously referred to Californias inland capital, had played over the years in the preseason, regular season and postseason. Many die-hard NBA fans swear by the theory that this series was I called it the worst officiated game in NBA history. We still had the confidence. Waiting for them in the playoffs would have been a mediocre No. The theory here is that the NBA thought it would be best for the highly star powered Los Angeles Lakers to be the face of the league still in 1988. The clock kept ticking. Chris Webber and Mike Bibby were Sacramento's star duo. Before you decide what you think about Beech's critique, please do read the whole thing. Vlade Divac did what every big man has been taught their entire life get the ball away from the basket, Pollard said. Lamell McMorris, the spokesman for the NBA referees union, also dismissed the allegations. David Stern stepped in and vetoed the trade, and the main reason the deal was off was so that the league could keep more of a competitive balance. Late in the series clinching Game 6 Wade drove to the basket elbowing Dirk Nowitzki in the face on his way to the basket. The 2006 Finals have often times been called out as an example that the NBA fixes games and series to get the results that it knows will generate the most revenue. The NBA lottery was much different in its first year than it is today. Join us for a March Madness Webinar on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm ET. The Cleveland Cavaliers were a mess and it was all due to their best player in franchise history leaving the team for Miami in the summer of 2010. It was not legitimate, Pollard said, now out of the league and safe from being fined for criticizing the officials. Bibby inbounded the ball to Webber, who promptly passed the ball to a curling Bibby and set a hard (Lakers fans would claim moving) screen on Bibbys defender Derek Fisher, who fell to the ground in a heap. Or write about sports? Three fouls on Kings big man Lawrence Funderburke in just six minutes. And if the refs take these things too far? Some people cry conspiracy, claiming the game is rigged. I have been doing that for all my career.. But what happened during those four nights in 2006 left a mark on the NBA's historical resum so big that it can never really be erased. replays showing the shot left his hands after the buzzer sounded. Or write about sports? So far, the series had been relatively normal. They had a phenomenal season in 2002, sitting on top of the Western Conference with a record of 61-21. Take that with a grain of salt though, because I also blame LeBron for our national debt, the cancellation of Arrested Development and world hunger. As it turns out, though, I wasn't too far off. The game was refereed by three tenured veterans, Dick Bavetta, Ted Bernhardt and Bob Delaney. Chris Webber was playing just as well as Shaq. With the clock ticking down in the fourth quarter the Knicks were down by three.In the final seconds Larry Johnson launched a three pointer that washighly contested. 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