To be very clear, this is NOT a conspiracy theory. There are no facts to support this. It is merely a hypothesis. Just one that I find intriguing enough to throw around...
Right after Tuesday's game Piston player McDyess, a former Sun, was asked by the Phoenix commentators what was wrong with Hamilton, who was scratched shortly before tip off. The answer, a chuckling: "Nothing, he just took the day off."
Commenting on the zebra job McDyess also said "we'll take it", and "I was trying to get a foul" (referring to the hack-a-Shaq under the basket that the refs ignored). The ref job at the end of this game was a joke, as observed by plenty of Suns players and agreed to by the likes of Rasheed Wallace.
Now back up a little. Hamilton, a key Piston, was scratched shortly before the game. The line moved three points as a result. From PHX +3 to a pick um.
[for a brief second we'll insert the name Tim Donaghy here, just for subliminal purposes]
If somebody knew that Hamilton was not going to play before the books knew it, that person could have middled the game for three points. By betting huge on the Suns +3 and then on the Pistons pk. Is that worth it in basketball? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But what if you could get a little help?
Back to the game.
The last 2:40 of the game was under the strict direction of the zebras. Nash even commented that a ref seemed panicked, when he stuttered (after calling Nash for the blocking foul against the charging Billups): "you were underneath him." The Suns lost a 5 pt lead, and, through a succession of bad calls, the Pistons were given every opportunity to win the game by 1 or 2 pts.
Just a scenario.
PS - the game went OT, and the Pistons beat the spread.
Right after Tuesday's game Piston player McDyess, a former Sun, was asked by the Phoenix commentators what was wrong with Hamilton, who was scratched shortly before tip off. The answer, a chuckling: "Nothing, he just took the day off."
Commenting on the zebra job McDyess also said "we'll take it", and "I was trying to get a foul" (referring to the hack-a-Shaq under the basket that the refs ignored). The ref job at the end of this game was a joke, as observed by plenty of Suns players and agreed to by the likes of Rasheed Wallace.
Now back up a little. Hamilton, a key Piston, was scratched shortly before the game. The line moved three points as a result. From PHX +3 to a pick um.
[for a brief second we'll insert the name Tim Donaghy here, just for subliminal purposes]
If somebody knew that Hamilton was not going to play before the books knew it, that person could have middled the game for three points. By betting huge on the Suns +3 and then on the Pistons pk. Is that worth it in basketball? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But what if you could get a little help?
Back to the game.
The last 2:40 of the game was under the strict direction of the zebras. Nash even commented that a ref seemed panicked, when he stuttered (after calling Nash for the blocking foul against the charging Billups): "you were underneath him." The Suns lost a 5 pt lead, and, through a succession of bad calls, the Pistons were given every opportunity to win the game by 1 or 2 pts.
Just a scenario.
PS - the game went OT, and the Pistons beat the spread.