There is no question that the Spurs championship is tainted now?
Quote from locker room after May 12th playoff game against the Spurs and Suns.
Dan Bickley
The Arizona Republic
May. 12, 2007 09:49 PM
SAN ANTONIO
Meanwhile, in the locker room, one Suns assistant coach was heard cursing out Bruce Bowen, who does seem better equipped for the WWF than the NBA. Stop. It’s too easy to blame this loss on the officials.
That is exactly what they should have done since the report came out about the truth.
The NBA acknowledged Friday the FBI is investigating Tim Donaghy for betting on games, including ones in which he officiated.
Donaghy, who reportedly has resigned, was an NBA official for 13 years. He officiated 68 games in the 2005-06 season and 63 games in 2006-07, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He also worked 20 playoff games, including five last season — and the Spurs-Suns on May 12.
Next year – things will be different – David Stern better wake up!
yup your right before nba stands No Basketball At all
The Spurs won because they were better than the teams they played not because of some referee. Please.
thte sprus are *** together they can join lebron and kobe because the fragilent foul was not questionable the ejection of stoudmire and diaw was not fair if u say that the spurs won fairlly u better enver find me because im still pissed off
Whats tainted is you. Your still fired up because your team got beat AGAIN. This proves nothing and as usual you are mistaken. Why would the NBA want a team nobody watches outside of south texas to beat the Suns whom everyone seems to think is exciting. Hey now your chances are better trading away Thomas. LOL
you question the spurs championship? what you should be questioning is the manhood (or lack thereof) of the sun’s team and their fans.
its over. its been over for months now. there is nothing you can say, nothing you can do, to change what has already happened. do you think that stern will give the trophy to the suns for what might have been?
the suns did not lose the series due to some bad reffing. they were flat-out out-played, especially on the defensive end of the floor.
if you are to say that this championship is tainted then the Chicago Bull’s 1998 title is also tainted. michael jordan, on his final, legendary shot pushed off of bryon russell for the open shot. Evidence?=-WULyz1-OQc
shown most clearly at 40 seconds and on.
let it be known that i am merely providing evidence to help support my argument, not complaining about “what might have been.” the bulls won the game, and that was the end of it. there were no major articles or television interviews. the jazz just took their beatings like men. and i wish that suns fans would do the same thing.
I bet aother ref that was involved with the yakuza reffed game 2 cuz the spus got blown out in that game, it goes both ways, see I can throw accusations too. Just get over it suns fans. Tainted by one game? Game three? Their entire playoff run was taintd by that one game? You guys are hilarious. Just watch their entire playoff run, ohh wait their too boring for you, you couldn’t watch how they destroyed every team they faced, the nuggets, the jazz, the cavs, I’ll give the suns credit they put up way more of a fight than any of the other teams, but, life goes on, who knows maybe next year there will be more crooked refs on the suns side next season and you all might actually have a chance to win.
Oh come on. First, NBA is a business. What does a business try to do? It tries to make money. Who would make more money for the NBA, the Spurs or the Suns? Of course the Suns because of stupid assumption that the Spurs are boring. So why would the NBA want the Spurs to win. Second, it’s just one official not every single one of them. Third, people commit flagrant fouls, not only Horry. How can you suns fans forget the clothesline Bell gave Bryant in the previous playoffs. The Lakers didn’t lose their heads when that happened, but the Suns did. Fourth, Nash clearly flopped, he didn’t land at all like he would have if he didn’t flop. Which means that Ginobili is not the only one who flops. Whoever thinks that only a couple of people flop is foolish, even your “precious non-cheating” team, the Suns flop. It’s just that Ginobili uses it more and maybe is the best at it is why you’re upset. Fifth, Raja Bell tries to do the same thing as Bowen (which by the way is not dirty. It may be pushing the limit foul-wise but isn’t anywhere near dirty.) but of course you guys forget that because since he’s on your team. Sixth, very few people will agree with me but having Stoudemire out didn’t make the Suns lose, it made them almost win. I’ve heard that if they had had him then he would have gotten his 25 point average and the Suns would have won by 22. However that’s wrong. Kurt Thomas played rather well on offense if you recall. If Stoudemire was in Thomas wouldn’t have had anywhere the near the game offensively he had. The Suns might have gained 5 points or so, however the only reason the Spurs only got 88 points was because Stoudemire’s horrible defense wasn’t in to let the Spurs score more. I’m guessing that if Stoudemire would have been in the Spurs would have scored at least 10 more points. Seventh, Will you idiot Suns fans and “Casual basketball fans” please stop trying to come with excuses for your team. Your team is just not good enough on defense to win against the Spurs. Eighth, either Steve Kerr is a lot worse GM than I thought he would be or your owner is making him do stupid things. You guys are trying to kill your team after Nash stops doing this well aren’t you. Let’s see you’ve traded away what in the last two years, 4 first round draft picks and you’re only way of even slowing Tim Duncan, Kurt Thomas, for money and a second round draft pick, does this sound smart to you? Oh trading away Kurt Thomas mean you will not win next years championship, Tim Duncan will be able to score 40 points on you every game. Oh why do you blame that referee for Stoudemire and Diaw’s suspension the only people’s fault it is is a little bit of Horry and Nash, and a lot of Stoudemire’s and Diaw’s. Stoudemire and Diaw’s lost their heads and broke a rule that they know should give them a suspension. Therefore it is mainly their fault.
First, The **** Master, when you’ve got some evidence of your accusations about the other referees then you can make some accusations, but you’ve got absolutely no proof at all. If we can’t refute baseless accusations than you can’t make baseless accusations
Second, maybe if you were a little nicer to Spurs fans they’d be a little nicer to you.
Third, I’ve heard from a lot of people that David Stern caused the Spurs to win not on this question but other places. So maybe I shouldn’t have brought it up in this question, but it was a valid point against other people.
Fourth, other than Bowen getting called out by Thomas for stepping under people shooting and Ginobili getting ridiculed for flopping the Spurs weren’t called dirty before the Suns series. I wonder why that is.
Fifth, I’m sorry about the Nash thing. I should have said something like this: Nash did get fouled and it was a hard foul. Maybe Horry deserved the flagrant foul also. But unlike some people think, I don’t think it was planned. How could they have known Stoudemire would leave the bench. I think it was a hard foul that Horry made to stop Steve Nash from running up the court. I also think Steve Nash flopped a little to make it look worse than it did. I maybe wrong but that’s what I believe happened.
Sixth, a lot of fouls are up to interpretation. See I think the Spurs got lots of fouls called on them that they shouldn’t have you think that the Suns got lots of fouls called on them that they shouldn’t have. However, because the Suns lost their fans try to come up with excuses. If the Spurs lost instead of the Suns, maybe we would have done the same thing. I hope not but maybe we would have.
Seventh, you’re probably right about the fact why nobody jumped off the bench for the Lakers. However, I do stop wish you would stop acting like your team acts perfectly on the basketball court other than that time. But that doesn’t change the fact that Stoudemire and Diaw left the bench and that is a suspending violation. Also, if someone did that same play to Ginobili you would say that Ginobili flopped. I’m sorry but you would.
Eighth, I wasn’t nice when I called you guys idiot fans, but which is worse me calling you idiot fans or you calling us cuss words and other things like that. For me all the things that you called us Spurs fans is false for me and not even close. I know I’ve done wrong things in my life, but how can you call me any of those things. Also there are some fans that do a lot of things that are wrong for all the teams. Maybe you’ve met some of the worse of all of them, but what I thought I was doing was giving you my interpretation of what happened. That doesn’t mean you have to have the same one. It also doesn’t mean you get to make baseless accusations about my character and IQ level either.
I’m a Suns fan and even I don’t think the Spurs title was tainted. That’s the thing about sports fans in general, you can’t just get mad at one call in one game. The report you have in your question says that he coached the May 12, which was Game 3, which wasn’t the game with the cotroversial call.
Besides, even if this one is tainted, the Spurs have won two other titles with basically the exact same team.
the Suns weren’t cheated, they’re just missing that extra piece they need to advance, which they’re hopefully working on in the offseason.
finally a clean officiated game
MFFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the idiots don’t realise is that Donaghy isn’t the only ref that’s accepting bribes/corrupt. And those same morons are suggesting that the Suns drawing higher ratings means that the mobs/Spurs franchise personnel are somehow unable to bribe and influence referees. The issue is not about David Stern influencing refs to help the team he wants to win. It was mobsters and other criminals involved in bookmaking, and this throws wide open the possibility that the Spurs are guilty of dirty play BOTH on AND off the court. Their personnel could very well be involved in mobs who subsequently control the referees. You idiot Spurs dogs can’t refute this because you don’t know whether this is true. I’m not saying it’s definitely true but the whole corruption incident has PROVEN that such corruption is POSSIBLE. And it’s definitely not just one referee, which is a butt-stupid assumption you have made, but that is typical of Spurs fans. Having the IQ of chimpanzees isn’t enough for Spurs hooligans, but they also have to throw out totally irrelevant points in a vain attempt to throw the spotlight off of the fact that their team plays dirty and that there are suspicions that their dirty play was tolerated by referees who would be financially rewarded for letting them maul their opponents into submission. I won’t concretise any accusations but the Spurs have always gotten favourable calls and it is highly likely that there could be unseen criminal forces at work behind the scene.
Nash didn’t flop,he got rammed in the face you despicable black-hearted Spurs scum. Spurs retards would sing totally different tunes if their player had gotten even a remote scratch by an opposing defender. Nash’s not in the least like Ginobili, who falls down when flies buzz around his fucked-up garbage face. Spurs fans, who’re mostly vermin, like to trash-talk a lot and give excuses even when video replay evidence shows how obvious it was their team played dirty. They can see it happen in front of their eyes and still deny it, and then turn the tables and accuse innocent parties. Yes, I admit that the Raja Bell clothesline was a terrible foul. But none of Kobe’s teammates like him enough to want to defend him, so no real loss in the form of suspensions resulted for the Lakers side, which is different from what happened in the Suns’ scenario. The Spurs drew so many phantom fouls from flops and theatrics in game 6 that they managed to get Raja Bell fouled out in 27 mins and put Marion in foul trouble. Game 3 was an uncontroversial Spurs win, but Game 1 was due to luck in which Nash was injured in the closing minutes by Parker, and game 5 was an extremely close game in which the referees were mysteriously harsh on the Suns. The whole issue is that the hypocrite Spurs dogs are usually jerks in real life and not only sanction, but advocate violence and cheating. Their shocking level of morality(immorality) is extremely disturbing, given that these scum of the earth are somehow not locked up in prison after raping animals and murdering children. I’ve met at least over a hundred Spurs fans, but not even one of them was a decent human being who had a conscience or a heart. It’s just something about their franchise that they have to be child-rapists and Ku Klux Klan members, and possibly in the near-future, ******* bombers who target innocent fans of the other 29 teams. I love the Suns, Bulls, and the Hornets teams but I would be disappointed if any team which I like had to resort to foul play to secure a victory, and I would be aghast if the level of intellect of fans of my team were reduced to such a devastatingly low level that they would become blubbering morons capable only of obnoxious trash-talk, which is a trademark of the San Antonio Spurs franchise. However, I believe it is highly impossible that fans of any other team can become like Spurs shitheads, which refers to being hooliganistic, inhumane, despicable, black-hearted thugs who have integrity lower than the Grand Canyon and moral values that guarantee them being hell-bound.
hey alex,d spurrrrs won fair and square!!!!! u tell me wen im supposed 2 start shakn cuz im scared dat ur still pissed off.oooooooooooooooooooooooooo let me get under my bed and come out wen d suns win a championship.which means theyll find a corpse under my bed.u r a damn moron.u r 2 funny lol.SPURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW U LIKE DEM APPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!