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Of course the league secretly hates it most popular and profitable franchises in the West Coast capital. It makes total sense. I mean look how they make them play on Christmas day and shit. David Stern doesn't want them to spend time with their families on Christmas? Fuck him.
Quote from: Ron Paul = greatest American since Thomas Jefferson on January 13, 2008, 09:49:44 PMOf course the league secretly hates it most popular and profitable franchises in the West Coast capital. It makes total sense. I mean look how they make them play on Christmas day and shit. David Stern doesn't want them to spend time with their families on Christmas? Fuck him.You're trying to be funny but its not uncommon for a boss to have personal opinions towards his employees. When Game was signed to G-Unit 50 hated him but still wanted him to sale records. Why? Because in the end he profited from it. Same applies here. Stern loves making money off the Lakers but he hates Kobe. Lebron is his lil golden boy so he's the one he wants to succeed.
What it is... is this...David Stern is jealous of Kobe. He hates that when Kobe does well, more revenue is brought to his league!!! He HATES that! He can't stand that Kobe makes comments about wanting to get traded, which also bring more attention to his league!!!! The nerve of Kobe for bringing money and attention to the NBA! No wonder David Stern hates him.
i didnt bother to read through every post that I missed. But how does this seem to be so difficult to understand? lol. The weaker your team is recordwise, the harder your schedule is based on opponents win percentage. Its a fact. This is the NBA, not the NFL. Every team, plays every other team. If your team plays 9 road games....guess what, they have to play 9 home games to make up for those 9 road games. Every team has stretches of their schedule that are harder then other teams stretches at THAT particular time. But the overall schedule isnt harder for any one team. Lets make this simple. Say I have a league with 4 teams. Each team plays eachother at home....and on the road one time. Does team 1 have a harder schedule then team 4? Uhh....no. Bottom line is you have SOME fans who are trying to make their team look better by pretending that their team is overcoming some incredible odds that the rest of the league isnt. They think its cool to be the "bad guy". What makes it funny to the rest of us level headed folks who argue with logic is, that the Lakers have NEVER been considered the bad guys of the league. If anything, theyre the sweethearts of the league. And i DO mean sweet . lol Sorry, had to do that. If there were ever a team that the league WOULDNT want to hold down (assuming they would want to hold ANY team down) it would be the team with the largest bandwagon fanbase and therefor great ratings, Los Angeles Lakers. It would be like the Cowboys pretending the league was trying to keep them from winning...or the MLB was trying to hold down the Yankees lol.Face it, the reason you guys havent won any championships since Shaq left is simple. You havent been good enough. The years when my team didnt win titles....guess what, we werent good enough that year.