Suicide watch in Seattle!!!!

[polamalubeast]

The Oklahoma City Thunder( former seattle supersonics) are in the NBA final!!!!


http://www.seahawks.net/viewtopic.ph...46019&start=60

[Godfather]

Good thing they moved, or the refs would have conspired against them.

[fansince'76]

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of whiners.

[steelerdude15]

Man, that must suck.

[ShutDown24]

I can't even look at that board for more than a couple of posts due to the atrocity that is the Seahawks color scheme.

[polamalubeast]

And it will probably not the last final for OKC in this decade! Their four best players have 23 years old(westbrook,Durant) and 22 years old(Ibaka,Harden)!

They have very good chance to be the next dynasty in the NBA

[fansince'76]

I can't even look at that board for more than a couple of posts due to the atrocity that is the Seahawks color scheme.

What, you got a problem with baby-shit-green and blue?

[steelerdude15]

And it will probably not the last final for OKC in this decade! Their four best players have 23 years old(westbrook,Durant) and 22 years old(Ibaka,Harden)!

They have very good chance to be the next dynasty in the NBA

That's very true. Boy, that would even be a bigger kick in the nuts for Seattle fans if they win the championship.

[fansince'76]

Boy, that would even be a bigger kick in the nuts for Seattle fans if they win the championship.

I don't even follow the NBA anymore, but go OKC!

[polamalubeast]

That's very true. Boy, that would even be a bigger kick in the nuts for Seattle fans if they win the championship.

The worst part for Seattle is that OKC has the potential to win multiple championships(3 or more) in this decade

OKC are so young

[steelerdude15]

I don't even follow the NBA anymore, but go OKC!

Hmmm, something tells me you don't like Seattle very much.

[fansince'76]

Good thing they moved, or the refs would have conspired against them.

Seeing how it's the NBA, they might have an argument. Depends - has Durant become a big enough name to become subject to the Jordan/Kobe rules yet, where he gets sent to the line 50 times a game for people daring to breathe on him and is allowed to take an extra step (or three) without being called for traveling? Again, don't follow the NBA anymore.

[polamalubeast]

Seeing how it's the NBA, they might have an argument. Depends - has Durant become a big enough name to become subject to the Jordan/Kobe rules yet, where he gets sent to the line 50 times a game for people daring to breathe on him and is allowed to take an extra step (or three) without being called for traveling? Don't follow the NBA anymore.

Durant finished 5th for the free throws attemps(FTA).....His teammates Westbrook finished 9th!

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/pl...d/seasontype/2

And OKC has been 2nd for the most FTA in 2012!

http://espn.go.com/nba/statistics/te...d/seasontype/2

[fansince'76]

Durant finished 5th for the free throws attemps(FTA).....

Sounds like he's getting there. Is he also allowed to travel with impunity?

[polamalubeast]

Phil Jackson had already said in 2010 that the refs treated Kevin Durant as a superstar


Phil Jackson was fined for comments made in reference to Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, the third-year forward who led the league in free throw attempts with 10.3 per game this season. The Lakers tip off their first-round playoff series against Durant and the Thunder on Sunday.

"As far as the calls that he gets on the floor, I think a lot of the referees are treating him like a superstar; he gets to the line easy and often," Jackson said on Tuesday, prior to Los Angeles' game against Sacramento.


Boston's Kevin Garnett made a similar derisive claim after the Celtics' 109-104 loss to the Thunder on March 31, saying the calls Durant was receiving made it seem like he was "Michael [expletive] Jordan."


read more

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angele...ory?id=5095536

[fansince'76]

Phil Jackson had already said in 2010 that the refs treated Kevin Durant as a superstar


Phil Jackson was fined for comments made in reference to Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant, the third-year forward who led the league in free throw attempts with 10.3 per game this season. The Lakers tip off their first-round playoff series against Durant and the Thunder on Sunday.

"As far as the calls that he gets on the floor, I think a lot of the referees are treating him like a superstar; he gets to the line easy and often," Jackson said on Tuesday, prior to Los Angeles' game against Sacramento.

Phil Jackson has a hell of a lot of nerve after that abortion in game 6 of the 2002 WCF. That game is what finally turned me off to the NBA. Now THAT was a fixed game, Squawks fans.

[polamalubeast]

Phil Jackson has a hell of a lot of nerve after that abortion in game 6 of the 2002 WCF. That game is what finally turned me off to the NBA. Not THAT was a fixed game, Squawks fans.

The Lakers had 27 FTA in 4th quarter!!!! It was ridiculous!

Of course the referee was Tim Donaghy



On June 10, 2008, Donaghy's attorney filed a court document alleging, among other things, that Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings was fixed by two referees. The letter states that Donaghy "learned from Referee A that Referees A and F wanted to extend the series to seven games. Tim knew Referees A and F to be 'company men', always acting in the interest of the NBA, and that night, it was in the NBA's interest to add another game to the series."[39] The Lakers won Game 6, attempting 18 more free throws than the Kings in the fourth quarter, and went on to win the 2002 NBA Finals. The teams were not named, but the Western Conference Finals was the only seven-game series that year.[40] The document claimed that Donaghy told federal agents that to increase television ratings and ticket sales, "top executives of the NBA sought to manipulate games using referees".[39] It also said that NBA officials would tell referees to not call technical fouls on certain players, and states that a referee was privately reprimanded by the league for ejecting a star player in the first quarter of a January 2000 game.[39] Stern denied the accusations, calling Donaghy a "singing, cooperating witness".[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Donaghy