This is about all I can take. I am freakin' PISSED off! I feel upset, I feel angry, and most of all I feel abused... and let me tell you why...
Many people are huge sports fans.... but me... I have never really enjoyed any sport or sporting league as much as I have enjoyed the National Basketball Association. I have really been a lucky fan of the game in my eyes. I was fortunate enough to grow up watching the greatest athlete of all time, Michael Jordan, throughout all his accomplishments whether is be scoring titles, MVP's, or winning six championships and today I am able to watch every game of his successor, Lebron James, and I can only imagine the milestones he will surpass. It's safe to say, NBA has always been my true pride and joy.
But the day that Tim Donoghy popped up on my TV screen last summer, that all changed. Suddendly I began to feel like a proud father, who watched his son become so extremely successful only to find out that his business is really only a cover up of a much uglier way of making money through crime, greed and deceit.
For years, my cousin, also a huge fan of the game, but a Detoirt Pistons fan would tell me that in his eyes many of the NBA games were fixed and could be decided ultimately by the referees. For instance, when the cavs finally beat Detroit in a series that went seven games last year putting us in the finals against the Spurs, my cousin demanded that the series was fixed. If you recall, the Cavs were down 2-0 after the first two games of the series. After the cavs finally prevailed after seven games, and overcoming that 2 game deficit, my cousin demanded that the series was fixed for a couple of reasons. 1- that the longer the series goes, the more money the NBA gets, therefore, the referees call the games so in the end it will be a tight series, which builds interest and generates more cash.
I never laughed so hard in my life. He was trying to tell me, the official's employed by a professional sporting organization made calls based on generating the most marketing dollars for the league rather than calling calls based on what is actually taking place in the game. I would like at him like a soar loser. A man who loved his Pistons and just saw Lebron take over a series single handedly and put an end to the Pistons championship dreams. A soar loser was just salty his team lost.... or was there more to it?
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