[brewers7]

Originally posted on 05/12/2017:

Holy fukking shit.....if anyone out there actually believes that Harden threw this game, you are a complete and utter retard.

IF he was going to throw a game, he could have easily done it with a missed shot here and there, a couple of turnovers at the wrong time, a bad foul, a lost ball out of bounds, taking a technical foul, and on and on.

Nobody, no matter how stupid they are, would go out and lose by 39 and have the worst game of their career. Harden is just not good with pressure. Harden is not a mentally strong player and Pops took D'Antoni to school. His adjustments were bang on.

Fixed, my ass. Clowns.

Yes, what happens is that the NBA and NBA referees figure out which side is the 'public' side and then they favour the other side. They want to alienate the betting public, is that it? Or they just like to make sure Vegas wins? How does this make sense?

Or do you think it is just possible that Vegas knows which way to lean the numbers to maximize their profitability? That seems to make a lot more sense to me.

10 years down the road nothing will change. People have been saying that sports are fixed for the last 50 years....where are all of the whistle blowers from those eras?

Unreal

I agree 100% with everything Dollars2Donuts has said...If Harden was going to "fix" that game, he could have played his ass off, scored 30 points and had a triple-double and the Rockets still could have lost the game by 4 to 8 points and nobody would be saying a word... Why on earth would he deliberately fix a game and play this horribly??...

NBA games are not fixed...They simply are not...Like Dollars said, where are all the whistle-blowers from the last 40+ years for any professional sport???... There are none because none of the games were fixed...The 1919 World Series was fixed, and the whistle-blowers were out in full force...Books written, investigations, suspensions and lifetime bans...

People need an excuse to vent for a losing bet and it always comes down to believing some impossible-to-orchestrate "conspiracy" by Vegas or the SportsBooks or by whomever....No chance...

Best quote here:

yep

wonder how many tens of thousands he was paid in order to jeopardize his 118 million dollar contract and millions in endorsements

That's all that needs to be said...Oh and let's not forget the $200 million contract he signed with Adidas who will be paying him that $200 million over 13 years...

So why would Harden jeopardize at minimum, $300 million dollars plus whatever he gets on a new contract plus whatever other endorsements he has and will get in the future -- to make, what on this "fix", a few hundred thousand or maybe stretch it out to a million dollars???...He is going to risk $300+ million to make $1 million on a "fix"????...

Why on earth would anyone do that???...

Of course he did NOT fix that game last night...He had a terrible game...Horrible game...And it's there on video for anyone to see for the next 100 years and he will have to live with that...But he didn't fix the game...

NBA games are not fixed...Crazy things happen during games every now and then...Including playoffs, there are roughly 1300 games played every year...Anomalies are going to happen when you have 1300 game lines, game totals, 1st half lines, 1st half totals, 1st quarter lines, 1st quarter totals, 2nd half lines, etc, etc...

And all the frustrated bettors are going to scream "fix" or "rigged" whenever one of these anomalies burns one of their tickets...

Get over it...NBA, NHL, MLB and NFL games are not fixed...And neither are 99.99% of NCAA football and basketball games...

And I have taken hundreds of "bad beats" over the last couple of decades...Part of the game...Like poker...On to the next game or the next hand...


You gotta let it go...Like a shooter who missed his last shot or an infielder who just made a big error...You need to have a short memory and let it go...It's not fixed...