Chauncey Billups: My favorite Piston
Some of the Robbed Celtics
God, I fell for it again! My sister got me to watch the whole game 7 between the Celtics and the Lakers. All it did was bring up a lot of angry feelings about the NBA. Remember that cheating ref? His buddies are still out there cheating some more.
I used to love watching the Pistons. Chauncey Billups was my favorite player. Then Joe got that lame idea to trade him and my beautiful Pistons have never really recovered from that failed move. However, I continued to watch them as Allen Iverson cried like a baby and didn’t show up for Thanksgiving’s day practice. I stayed loyal to them and continued to watch hoping and praying Joe knew what he was doing. I even started watching this year as I wanted to give them a chance. However, it always seemed like the refs had other ideas about the team. For some reason it always seemed like there were far more calls against the Pistons than other teams. It must be hard playing when there are a couple of extra guys rooting for the other team that hold so much power. However, the team just kept plodding along. My watching slowed up and by the end of the season I couldn’t even tell you what days they were playing. My sister, however, was always faithful to the team and to the game. She watched to “support” the team. She wanted to always show her support to the guys in the uniforms, to the ones that get out there game after game regardless of the refs decisions and the NBA’s lack of support.
She even watched the play offs. I would half heartedly turn on the TV and watch a few minutes and move on. I told her early on that the NBA wanted a match up between the Lakers and the Celtics and they would do everything they could to get that match up. It must be about the money. The NBA must think we love watching all of those stars at the game. Not me! In game seven when Jack Nickleson almost landed a Celtic on his lap I was only mildly amused. I am not enamored with Hollywood and could care less about the stars showing up for the games. I care about the integrity of the game, good basketball and honest playing. The guys playing aren’t the problem. It’s the NBA and the way everything is rigged. They elevate certain players to get us to buy their paraphernalia. They give them more playing time. This was so true with Allen Iverson. They pushed his jerseys and fudged his numbers while he couldn’t shoot worth a damn for the Pistons. My sister was very excited about the Celtics and wanted them to win because she can’t stand the Lakers and Kobe. I felt it was rigged for the Lakers and that the Lakers would win so why bother.
However, because of her persistence and the way the Celtics were playing I thought I would watch the whole game seven. I wanted the Celtics to win because I’m tired of hearing about how the western conference is better than the eastern conference and I too hate the Lakers. I wish I hadn’t bothered to watch because all of that anger I had before about the NBA, refs and rigging the games has resurfaced. My son looked up the stats on the game and he said the Lakers had 37 free throw attempts to the Celtics 17. This is game seven and we are to believe this is fair? The Celtics were winning the game all the way through until the refs had to make sure they didn’t win. It was obvious that every time the teams were under the Lakers’ basket the refs were going to call something if the Lakers couldn’t get a shot up on their own. This is not “winning” basketball and I’m tired of the press afterwards trying to convince us that the Lakers “won” the game. The Lakers, once again, had a gift served up to them on a silver platter. They didn’t deserve to “win” and really they must know it and not care.
I’m tried of the press telling us what to believe when our eyes can tell us what we already know. I don’t need the PR campaign. The NBA is crooked and rigged and I think we should all protest them. Stop watching the rigged games but most of all stop buying the crap they’re selling.
Finally, I say, “Bravo to Coach Izzo!” for not joining this cesspool of corruption. He would have been fired in a couple years anyway when he would have had a losing team. The NBA only elevates certain coaches like Phil Jackson who seems to get whatever player he wants on the team, gets to coach wherever he wants as well and gets the refs in his hip pocket.
Some may think I’m whining about the Celtics losing. I’m no Celtics fan although I will always love Rasheed Wallace as he was a true “Piston”. Earlier I said that the NBA wanted the match up to be between the Lakers and the Celtics. I’m really angry that I was conned into watching that final game once again. I knew who would win because I knew who the “favorite son” was. All you had to do was listen to the announcers for five seconds on any given night. My sister meant well but the truth is the NBA is corrupt. It’s like a rotten apple. You have to throw it out and get a fresh one as you can’t eat a rotten apple. Nothing is going to make that apple taste better except to get an unspoiled apple to eat. The NBA needs to be shook up to its core. David Stern needs to step down as commissioner because under him the NBA has lost all credibility. My son stopped watching the games because of the corruption. I now think it’s my turn to follow suit. I love the game of basketball when it is honest. I hate what has happened with the NBA. There is no glory in winning a championship if you aren’t truly deserving of the win. The Lakers can fake it till they make it but the truth is still out there. They know that game seven was a total piece of crap orchestrated by the refs and polished off by David Stern’s thugs. The death of the game was witnessed last night. Kobe got his ring even though he couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Of course he always had Lady Luck, the refs!