Stern's Celtics?

[Frank Breakfast Styleham]

I couldn't help but read all the posts that have said Boston is "Stern's Celtics."

Is this just a joke or is there a significant number of people on this message board who believe the NBA is trying to give the Celtics an unfair advantage in order to boost their ratings?

I'm interested in reading your thoughts.

frank breakfast-styleham

 

[clonetrooper264]

Well there is a case for it when you take into consideration all the things Rondo has done to warrant himself a suspension, but of course he doesn't get one. I don't think that the NBA is trying to boost their ratings, but the calls have been in Boston's favor IMO. With that said you have to give props to the Bulls for pushing this thing to game 7.

 

[dougthonus]

People have gotten suspended regularly for less than what Rondo has done twice, so I think there is a lot of bitterness over that. In game, I think the officiating has been pretty fair throughout though I thought game 6 the Bulls got the shaft, but they won the game so it's sort of irrelevant.

 

[Dpauley23]

Were you watching the 4th quarter tonight?

 

[Shakes]

I thought we got some very favourable calls before the 4th though. I didn't think there was a lot in the techs on Rondo or House, for example.

 

[dougthonus]

I didn't think there was anything really awful in the 4th.

 

[Dpauley23]

Brad Miller got tech in game 6 for just waving his arms. KG his been yelling at our players the way series. Its about time they got techs. Every time we took it to the rim we got no calls and it was absolute BS. All in all though it was a good season

 

[Shakes]

BG got plenty of fouls called, I don't really think you can complain when up until the end where we started intentionally fouling them we had more FT attempts. They were attacking the basket harder than us most of the game.

 

[Dpauley23]

Im talking about Rose and Gordon. That 3 call was ridicoulous too. Scalbraine hacks Rose and doesn't get called for foul