1. 02-15-12 08:37 PM #1
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    Jeremy Lin story seems a little too perfect for the league...

    Anyone put it past the NBA to cook something like this up?

    -The NBA figured out several years ago 9 black guys and one white guy was not a recipe for financial success

    -The white and latino markets have already been targeted

    -Huge void in the domestic and foreign asian market when Yao Ming retired. Lin appeals to millions of both Asians and whites who would otherwise not watch

    -NY Knicks one of if not the biggest market

    -A lot of Lin's points are made by reverse and acrobatic layups. Easiest thing in the world to fake defense on a layup. I used to do it all the time at the rec center for payment in chilidogs. NBA big wigs and players probably framed this during the CBA meetings to keep the league alive and kicking awhile longer. "Make this guy look good until after the all star break," they probably said.

    Well played NBA, well played
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  2. 02-15-12 08:41 PM #2
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    I've said somethign similar in my previous post. The year NBA players go to china and launch china to another level of NBA, the same year Jeremy Lin explodes. I felt it was weird, but most of the poster shit on me for that post, so good luck..
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  3. 02-15-12 08:44 PM #3
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    Why did I even read this?
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  4. 02-15-12 08:46 PM #4
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    Sorry guy. I don't put it past the NBA to pull some shady crap like this, but the story is too random.

    You can't expect the league to ask opposing teams to stop playing this asian kid well, because we need him to succeed.

    The kid still needs to put the ball in the hole.

    And besides, there are actually talented asians, in China that could be much easier to manipulate the story. Why use a Taiwanese from Nor Cal?
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  5. 02-15-12 08:47 PM #5
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    nothing in the rigged nba surprises me
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  6. 02-15-12 08:48 PM #6
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    The NBA is closer to WWE than to professional sports. Just like WWE, they put the right guy in there, not the best guy
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  7. 02-15-12 08:52 PM #7
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    yeah and the most famous athlete in the world just moved in to trump towers just as trump's tv show celebrity apprentice is about to debut this sunday.....

    coincidence? no... it's a conspiracy!!!!!

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  8. 02-15-12 08:53 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCentaur View Post
    The NBA is closer to WWE than to professional sports. Just like WWE, they put the right guy in there, not the best guy
    seems good english easy for american fans to like, comes from a ivy league college...then ends up with the NEW YORK knicks of all teams.. who have been dog shyt for a while and even with starts have still been junk...

    well done nba well done
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  9. 02-15-12 09:05 PM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCentaur View Post
    The NBA is closer to WWE than to professional sports. Just like WWE, they put the right guy in there, not the best guy
    The Marks are loving it.
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  10. 02-15-12 09:07 PM #10
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    I can see things like the draft lottery being rigged in the NBA's best interests because funny things can happen in Big Business. But asking players to make someone else look good at their expense is a different matter.
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  11. 02-15-12 09:09 PM #11
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    Asians love dunks. The real marketing opportunity would have been to present Blake Griffin as Chinese.
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  12. 02-15-12 09:11 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Easy-Rider 66 View Post
    I can see things like the draft lottery being rigged in the NBA's best interests because funny things can happen in Big Business. But asking players to make someone else look good at their expense is a different matter.
    We'll see what happens after the all-star break when it counts
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  13. 02-15-12 09:12 PM #13
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    My sources tell me the NBA guru-insider that cooked up this whole Lin charade is the same asshole that suckered SBR into buying his poker software...
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  14. 02-15-12 09:15 PM #14
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    good chance he's gay. he certainly looks like one. I know a lot of Asian guys look that way... b/c they're so feminine and slight of build...

    but really think Lin and Tebow could be into the dudes.
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    yes everything is rigged. you are in the matrix.
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    centaur is a jerkoff

    many ppl know it too sceered to say it
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  17. 02-15-12 09:29 PM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puppy View Post
    centaur is a jerkoff

    many ppl know it too sceered to say it
    The rabid skunk just walked into the room
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCentaur View Post
    The rabid skunk just walked into the room
    me go get potatoe chips. me enjoy them
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  19. 02-15-12 09:32 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by Puppy View Post
    me go get potatoe chips. me enjoy them
    ok great, good for you
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  21. 02-15-12 10:25 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deuce View Post


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  22. 02-15-12 10:35 PM #22
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    Garden loaded with Asian now, good to see

    Kid is good period

    3 guys trapping him tonight
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  23. 02-15-12 10:48 PM #23
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    blacks get an extra day this year, its leap year
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  24. 02-15-12 10:51 PM #24
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    yeah I made a thread hinting to this last week.
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  25. 02-15-12 11:06 PM #25
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    Lin is a poor man's Steve Nash. Not a bad thing to be though. He might be a better defender than Nash; Nash better jumpshooter.

    Still must cut down on the turnovers.
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  26. 02-15-12 11:23 PM #26
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    how can u rig a jumpshot? or maybe we're seeing a an edited tv show right in-front of our screen?
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  27. 02-16-12 12:23 AM #27
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    Quote Originally Posted by AribaAriba View Post
    how can u rig a jumpshot? or maybe we're seeing a an edited tv show right in-front of our screen?
    What's his fg %? And how hard is a reverse layup?
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  28. 02-16-12 12:34 AM #28
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    NBA players make millions of dollars with guaranteed contracts and wouldn't do shiit for David Stern (remember some players calling him a raciest), and sure in hell wouldn't be in unison in letting one player score at will.

    You play rec-ball for chili dogs.

    Shockingly those are are two completely different things.
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  29. 02-16-12 04:01 AM #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheCentaur View Post
    What's his fg %? And how hard is a reverse layup?
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    are you and idiot?
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    i like this thread
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    Quote Originally Posted by hangtime View Post
    are you and idiot?
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  32. 02-16-12 05:01 AM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by AribaAriba View Post
    how can u rig a jumpshot? or maybe we're seeing a an edited tv show right in-front of our screen?
    His "jump shot" is 38% so no one needs to rig it....
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  33. 02-16-12 05:04 AM #33
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    if it got out top people go to jail and the league is tarnished..doubt it VERY VERY much
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  34. 02-16-12 05:25 AM #34
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    Wow, how pathetic.
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  35. 02-16-12 05:41 AM #35
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    lol .. not really.. if anything that kid is fired up !! and he is surrounded by fairly good players.

    imagine if u were pushed around different teams for being shit, but then all of a sudden u get to start for one of the best teams ( home fans, new york etc etc ) u will be fired up. it might have given him confidence. so he is utilizing it . thats all.

    even if its fixed i would give two shits. he is making me money. simples !!

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