I vote we give the Bucks the 1st round series against the Hawks just so we can see this again!

Still can’t watch a whole game on NBA Broadband. Always starts to lock up toward the end of the game. Just plain crap! Just like the referees the NBA can’t figure out how to get it right!

I guess I didn’t learn my lesson. I bought League Pass so I could watch my favorite team and it is suppose to include NBA Broadband. NBA Broadband is the worst product ever, only thing worse is the referring in the NBA. DO NOT pay for this feature, they can’t even deliver a whole game, you just might watch the whole game just to be denied the last few minutes of the game.

NBA Broadband is a joke!
NBA Broadband is a waste of money!
NBA Broadband is garbage!
NBA Broadband Blows!
NBA Broadband Sucks!

OK lets see if google can get this out to everyone and hurt the NBA where it means the most!

The NBA’s current contract with its 60-odd referees runs out next week and the sides appear to be far apart on a new deal, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

Sept. 1 is the expiration date of the current five-year pact. One source told ESPN.com on Tuesday that — with the league proposing an across-the-board reduction to the referee budget of an estimated 10 percent — the impasse might not be resolved before the start the 2009-10 season.

As of “right now,” according to the source, existing NBA referees “will not be working preseason [or the] regular season.”

Another source with knowledge of the talks, however, countered by questioning the referees’ willingness to hold out in a depressed economy if it reaches the point that the league threatens to impose a lockout.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4422452&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines

Don’t bother signing up for NBA Broadband. They promise to make all game available but blackout the best games. Even better they make impossible to locate whether or not a game will be blacked out prior to the game.

If you want to watch an archived game you have to click on a link that “HAS THE SCORE ON THE LINK” no need watching a game that you already know the ending score. Don’t bother trying to send feedback because just like the refereeing in the league they really don’t want your opinion. The Feed back link doesn’t work, what a surprise.

Save your money to buy drinks at a nice cozy sports bar!

NBA Broadband Sux!

Lets see if this gets a response from the beloved league!

From the quiz NBA’s Director of Officiating Programs and Development Joe Borgia gave to the media:  (Originally Posted on TrueHoop.com)

Tim Donaghy reported to prison Tuesday in Florida, but many of the issues he raised about the culture of the NBA’s officiating remain unresolved.While NBA clubs gear up for the start of another training camp, disgraced referee Tim Donaghy began serving a 15-month sentence on Tuesday at a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, Fla.
Donaghy, a veteran of 13 NBA seasons, created a public-relations nightmare for the league when he pleaded guilty last year to felony gambling charges. Two other gamblers who attended a Philadelphia-area high school with Donaghy — James “Baba” Battista and Thomas Martino — also pleaded guilty in the tips-for-payoffs gambling scheme. Battista was sentenced to 15 months; Martino to a year.
Over the past year, NBA commissioner David Stern has cast Donaghy — 41 and a divorced father of four young girls — as a “rogue, isolated criminal” solely responsible for the betting scandal that threatened the credibility of the league and its referees. No other refs have been charged, nor has the league publicly announced disciplinary action against any others.

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The fat lady sang Thursday evening.

Our thoughts and prayers with the family of Dan Cook.  The man who coined the term ‘it ain’t over till the fat lady sings’, passed away Thursday.

Rest in Peace.

The Celtics have done it again.  The NBA has done it again, put horrible officials in critical roles.  Having Crawford officiating tonight made it clear to me that the NBA was looking for a physical game.  Flashback to Rambis being clotheslined.

A physical game is clearly to the Celtics advantage.

Somebody should have told Doc that the refs would allow players to do just about anything, throw a player aside, poke a player in the eye, etc.  Just don’t talk…  that will give the other team free throws.  Especially don’t laugh as Tim Duncan did against Crawford, and get ejected.

2002 Lakers-Kings Game 6 at heart of Donaghy allegations

LOS ANGELES — Was Game 3 of the 2008 NBA Finals held at the scene of a crime?

Disgraced ex-referee Tim Donaghy alleged as much Tuesday in a filing made by his attorney in U.S. District Court in New York, saying the highly controversial Game 6 of the Lakers-Kings playoff series in 2002 was impacted by the actions of two of the three referees who worked the game.

NBA commissioner David Stern vehemently denied the allegations, saying they are the desperate act of a convicted felon. He also disclosed that the league has already briefed members of the U.S. Congress on certain facets of the Donaghy investigation.

“We welcome scrutiny here. This is something that should be scrutinized,” said Stern, who called Donaghy a “singing, cooperating witness” and repeatedly referred to him as a felon as he spoke with reporters for more than eight minutes near the loading dock of the Staples Center as he arrived for Game 3 of the Finals.

The allegations are some of the strongest ever made against the NBA, coming at a time when the officiating of this year’s Finals between the Celtics and Lakers has come under heavy scrutiny.

In the letter submitted by Donaghy’s attorney, the following “manipulation” is alleged:

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