No, I'm not filled with it and if it were possible I'd rather both teams lost, and actually when you look at whats really going on I think I might get my way. In the semi-finals for both teams controversy surrounded both teams victories. Confused? Wondering why ESPN's not having a field day with it? Well me too, or at least I was until I realized the truth! An that truth is the NBA has planned a Kobe Bryant revival, yes this is the truth. You see Kobe Bryant was the face of the NBA, sure there were rumors of Kobe and Shaq not getting along but that was just the media trying to cause a riff in between a team that had it all (well just the important things like rings). During Kobe's reign you couldn't go a day on TV without seeing Kobe at least once. Between S
the Sprite and the Adidas commercials, and the games Kobe was in more commercials than MJ and catching comparisons to MJ just as often as he was seen. Then Kobe was met with a challenge no man on earth can concur, a women claiming ra
pe! All the sudden Kobe was bigger than any Sprite or Adidas ad could ever dreamed of making him, which is funny cause if you recall you didn't see any more Kobe commercials, funny cus they still made Sprite and Adidas. To ad to the problem Kobe was the only star in LA because he had run Shaq out of LA trying to prove he was the reason for the rings and not Shaq. This is where the NBA starts to lose fans and ratings, 
something has changed, but what? The NBA no longer has a staple figure they can market to the mass media, that is until Leb
ron James "the golden child" before he was in the NBA Lebron was the biggest NBA star, commerically anyways. Problems solved the NBA can move on from the death of Kobe Bryant NBA figure head and medium to mass market consumption, only Lebron doesn't win a ring his first year, or any year as of now. But Grizz what the fuck does this have to do with the Celtics and Lakers playing in the finals? Everything! you see since Lebron hasn't won a ring yet it makes it hard to sell him as the franchise of the NBA, especially when he is only able to be compared to Kobe Bryant. The NBA needed something to catapult Kobe Bryant back to the top and make people forget what a terrible terrible person he is accused of being. Fast forward through an off season where ever person who knew the name Kobe Bryant thought they would never see it in a Laker starting line up again, to an impressive regular season and a few questionable games against a 95% healthy Spurs team, filled with questionable calls in critical moments of the game, including a fourth quarter Derrick Fisher foul that the refs seemed to ignore and you have the Lakers in the finals. Standing in there way would be non other than the Celtics, who made it to the finals after acquiring Kevin Garnet and Ray Allen, turning the Big Five of old to the Three Musketeers of now
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pe! All the sudden Kobe was bigger than any Sprite or Adidas ad could ever dreamed of making him, which is funny cause if you recall you didn't see any more Kobe commercials, funny cus they still made Sprite and Adidas. To ad to the problem Kobe was the only star in LA because he had run Shaq out of LA trying to prove he was the reason for the rings and not Shaq. This is where the NBA starts to lose fans and ratings, 
something has changed, but what? The NBA no longer has a staple figure they can market to the mass media, that is until Leb
ron James "the golden child" before he was in the NBA Lebron was the biggest NBA star, commerically anyways. Problems solved the NBA can move on from the death of Kobe Bryant NBA figure head and medium to mass market consumption, only Lebron doesn't win a ring his first year, or any year as of now. But Grizz what the fuck does this have to do with the Celtics and Lakers playing in the finals? Everything! you see since Lebron hasn't won a ring yet it makes it hard to sell him as the franchise of the NBA, especially when he is only able to be compared to Kobe Bryant. The NBA needed something to catapult Kobe Bryant back to the top and make people forget what a terrible terrible person he is accused of being. Fast forward through an off season where ever person who knew the name Kobe Bryant thought they would never see it in a Laker starting line up again, to an impressive regular season and a few questionable games against a 95% healthy Spurs team, filled with questionable calls in critical moments of the game, including a fourth quarter Derrick Fisher foul that the refs seemed to ignore and you have the Lakers in the finals. Standing in there way would be non other than the Celtics, who made it to the finals after acquiring Kevin Garnet and Ray Allen, turning the Big Five of old to the Three Musketeers of now
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Oh and lets not forget some sketchy calls that helped propel them past an over confident Detroit. Now the hype begins LAKERS VS CELTICS an all time classic match up that rivals the YANKEES AND SOX. Now while everyone is caught up in the hype that the Lakers and Celtics are playing I seem to be one of few (I acknowledge others) who see the conspiracy here, the calls were bad because the NBA had to have the Lakers and Celtics play in the finals, the reaso
n now no matter what Kobe is the face of the NBA again. If the Lakers win (personally I feel this is not gonna happen, Celtics in 5, 6 at most) then Kobe gets compared to Jordan and that plus the MVP he won, and would win for the finals no doubt would propel him back to his thrown all the while David Stern is the happiest man alive. Say the Celtics win, Kobe is humbled and tells reporters to prepare for next year when he plans on doing whatever is in his power to return to the finals and come home with a ring, sparking commercial after commerical about hard work being key to excelling and show Kobe sweating profusely. So with all this said I hope you will join me in a boycott of the finals, the theory is that if this year the ratings are the lowest ever recorded or even lower than last years finals, which had the fundamental Spurs pitted against Lebron in an intense four game sweep, that the NBA will no longer sabotage the finals all so they can sell a single name.
n now no matter what Kobe is the face of the NBA again. If the Lakers win (personally I feel this is not gonna happen, Celtics in 5, 6 at most) then Kobe gets compared to Jordan and that plus the MVP he won, and would win for the finals no doubt would propel him back to his thrown all the while David Stern is the happiest man alive. Say the Celtics win, Kobe is humbled and tells reporters to prepare for next year when he plans on doing whatever is in his power to return to the finals and come home with a ring, sparking commercial after commerical about hard work being key to excelling and show Kobe sweating profusely. So with all this said I hope you will join me in a boycott of the finals, the theory is that if this year the ratings are the lowest ever recorded or even lower than last years finals, which had the fundamental Spurs pitted against Lebron in an intense four game sweep, that the NBA will no longer sabotage the finals all so they can sell a single name. 
2 comments:
IMO.
i agree but i disagree.
i think the league did push for this, but this year the lakers and celtics happen to be the best teams in their respectable conferences.
its simple.
of course this is after the trades and whatnot.
but, conspiracy is hard to pull in sports, because you can't make the athlete put the ball in the basket, or you can't make them do this or that or what have you.
now, you can alter the game a little, but you can't control the game.
for instance, in that game the lakers won and brent barry didn't get that call, the lakers handled them the whole game.
the refs were not like, spurs come back so we can make a game decision call.
and the spurs got handled, and i'm a spurs fan.
they gave the lakers game 1.
the refs didn't do that.
its not a conspiracy, although it makes sense, but anything can happen in sports, i.e., injuries, so, conspiracies are out of the question.
lakers and celtics just happened to have good years this year.
i agree with everything else though, about lebron and kobe and whatnot, thats just how the media is.
i dont know...
but that mvp was bullshit
chris paul?
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