Khakain

deal with it.

103-104 is all i'm sayin'

trail blazers can suck my nuts

can you imagine all your teenage angst on facebook? oh my god!

If any professional sport is fixed it's probably the nba

Not counting boxing

Haha, salty Toronto fans. That game was fucked, so many fouls. You guys did incredibly well to come back, DD is a true all-star.

I've suffered for many years as a TB fan, with the whole jail blazers then Roy/Oden things. We need this success.

If the Seahawks win, Paul Allen might even be in a good enough mood to go buy us a defensive player!

Why do you cheer for Portland though? I would have guessed you would be more into Golden State right now

BTW, what's the word on Exum that Australian phenom?

I lived in Portland for 2 years when I was a kid. Some of my friends root for GSW because of Bogut, but yeah I'm a PTB guy through and through.

We don't see much of Exum in Australia, to be honest, because he doesn't play in our shitty national league - he's being groomed for the NBA for sure. They're saying he might be a top 5 pick. 6'6 point guard with freaky athleticism, pretty good shooter and good passing game. He'll do well, no doubt. Don't sleep on Simmons either.

Anyone watch hockey? I've been a Hawks fan for a few years, one of the only teams that I follow that has had any success lately. I have a man crush on Jonathon Toews, as well as two of his jerseys.

Hell yeah!  I'm a Dallas Stars fan myself, and I also like the Rangers and the Devils.  I never know how to feel when they play against each other. :)

I don't follow the Hawks much, but they seem to do pretty well lately!

Yeah the Hawks are having a great year (last year obviously couldn't have been better) - currently leading their division and, I think, second in the west.

I watched a couple of Stars games, they seem fun. All I know of the NYR is Gretzky, he still features regularly on my N64.

absolutely a fucking travesty.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akv04ezHY1Y[/youtube]

so ridiculously fixed. what is that.

Too bad Bargnani left.

I can't believe that call. I missed the game and just saw the highlights now and that's some next level tim donaghy shit

...no

it's honestly sad.

fixing is as old as sports, but the fact that it's so flagrant is pretty sad.

that there's nothing to be done about it is even worse.

Why would the NBA give a shit who wins between TOR and SAC? It's just a bad call. Toronto gets a lot of 'em, but it has nothing to do with any sort of fixing.

doubtful. every game has hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on it.

and fuck canadia, amiright?

People bet on games and there's already one example of a NBA ref being busted for this exact same thing.

OK, so you're alleging corruption of the highest level. Personally I don't buy it.

why would you? you're a lawyer.

Not necessarily. It could just be an incompetent ref, it could be rigged for some reason (new nba commish was at the game to support the team staying sac town), or it could be dirty refs dictating the score to cover a spread.  It's not like that hasn't happened before in the league.

Have you ever seen a call like that made at the end of a tight game against the shooter? I challenge you to find a worse call and tech. Also the Kings shot 51 fts against TO... the highest in Kings history and the most against in TO's history. In comparison the raps shot 24 fts.

Also thanks to this game the raps are now the only team ever to shoot a better percentage from the field, shoot a better percentage from 3, have 10 more assists (25 to 15), out rebound their opponent, and still lose the game. That's some next level horse shit officiating

https://twitter.com/TimDonaghy2/status/431530562189131776

vegas baby vegas

Why am I still in a thread with the board's 2 most notorious conspiracy theorists? I'm out yo.

Why do we need two conspiracy theorists, anyway? One of you needs a new shtick.

I think Hitty is coming into his own these days, as the resident scattergun - he throws out a lot of shit until something sticks and a discussion or an argument breaks out. I like it.

That's pretty much been the plan. This forum needs new threads to survive otherwise it gets very stagnant and slow. Glad you like it!

The conspiracy thing isn't really something Kris and I can control. It's just the way we're wired... some people are more paranoid than others. I try not to talk about it as much because I know you guys don't really want to hear it but that doesn't mean my perspective is changing. Personally, I know I read into things too much but I've also been right about enough stuff to know that it's not all just in my mind.

Also, the people that are blissfully ignorant are just as bad IMO.

I have decided I will challenge you at your own game, thread creation. En garde.

welcome to the big leagues.

try not to get too hurt, okay?