THEE OFFICIAL 2019-2020 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD: VICTORY LAP

Which team is most overrated? (Pick two)

  • Clippers

  • Celtics

  • Seventy Sixers

  • Bucks

  • Rockets

  • Nuggets

  • Jazz

  • Nets

  • Warriors

  • Pacers

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Game fixing is really common in non American sports . I feel like it’s one of those things not being monitored well enough or being swept under the rug. I know the whole Donaghy scandal was publicized but he was the only guy caught.

Players of Jordan’s caliber who can really flip the switch can absolutely throw games while making it seem not that obvious
 
Pete Rose has been a pariah (relatively speaking) for 40 years because he bet on baseball. He’s not in the baseball HOF because of it and the game generally wants nothing to do with him. People in here really want to see Michael Jordan let that kind of treatment if he bet on basketball?
 
lawdog1 said:
Pete Rose has been a pariah (relatively speaking) for 40 years because he bet on baseball. He’s not in the baseball HOF because of it and the game generally wants nothing to do with him. People in here really want to see Michael Jordan let that kind of treatment if he bet on basketball?
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What kind of logic is this?
 
pmatic said:
Who was on NT when Kevin Love's bro snitched on Brandon Jennings and the SATs? I remember someone took his post and it spread on the message boards. He ended up deleting his post.
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He posted so much ****. It would've been all over the blogs if we were in this era. :lol: :lol:
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
The death of his father was the consequence of his gambling. You want to hide the truth so that he (and the NBA) don't face any consequences for getting his father killed. Allegedly.
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Agree to disagree man. We're arguing in circles.
 
antidope said:
It's less about Jordan than it is about the league itself but yes. The point about Jordan was that if people are really looking for him to face consequences or what have you, the death of his father as a result of all of this (Allegedly) covers that.
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In this dark underworld, we don't know what covers what. We can assume his "consequence" was his father's death but we don't know.

That would go into a whole different conversation that I am not sure people are really trying to have.

But he will pay for whatever he did/agreed to.
 
getback said:
Sounds like Italy is going to resume individual work outs for their footballers starting on May 18. We're over a month behind them. That should tell you a lot about how close we are to resuming the season, anywhere. Probably hard to secure a facility for an actual game without any sort of frame of reference for sports resuming.
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If they can’t feasibly start playing games until like July, to me it just doesn’t make sense to try and finish this season. Cancel it and start working toward a normal start to the 2020-2021 season in the Fall. I know other’s feel differently, but to me getting a normal next season would be preferable to a rushed finish to this one and then a delayed new season.

And that way, they could get the draft going in the Summer and free-agency, etc., so there still would be some real basketball-related news going on, even if its not games.
 
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Based Jesus said:
IF Mike was gambling on games and it cost his father his life, his father being dead isn't consequence enough?
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If a person is responsible for another man's death, there shouldn't be any consequences for that? It should be swept under the rug because I wanna be like Mike?
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
If a person is responsible for another man's death, there shouldn't be any consequences for that? It should be swept under the rug because I wanna be like Mike?
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His ******* father is dead. Don't really see the point in torturing him further in 2020 over alleged gambling debts in the 1990s.
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
If a person is responsible for another man's death, there shouldn't be any consequences for that? It should be swept under the rug because I wanna be like Mike?
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I am not sure of the full backstory but if Mike was gambling, delinquent on his payments and his father was killed in an attempt to expedite the payment the yes, I think that is a severe and grave consequence. Do you want to see him put in jail as well for not paying those debts, which he has since settled, in a timely manner?
 
Based Jesus said:
His ****ing father is dead. Don't really see the point in torturing him further in 2020 over alleged gambling debts in the 1990s.
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He probably can’t be criminally prosecuted for any gambling crimes now anyway, due to statute of limitations rules. Plus, even if he could, I sincerely doubt any state or federal law enforcement agency is going to put resources into going after Michael ******* Jordan on 2020 for gambling crimes in the 1990s.

If there was any “consequences” to it, I think it would come from the NBA, like kicking him out of the HOF or vacating the Bulls titles, which seems crazy.
 
storm2006 said:
I am not sure of the full backstory but if Mike was gambling, delinquent on his payments and his father was killed in an attempt to expedite the payment the yes, I think that is a severe and grave consequence. Do you want to see him put in jail as well for not paying those debts, which he has since settled, in a timely manner?
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I'm saying if the allegations are true, his debt was paid with his father's life. If you're responsible for someone's death aren't there normally consequences for that? You get your dad killed and now you're off the hook because people feel bad that you have a severe gambling problem?
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
If a person is responsible for another man's death, there shouldn't be any consequences for that? It should be swept under the rug because I wanna be like Mike?
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He's not criminally responsible for his death though.

The banishment would have to be related to his gambling. Unless Mike was in on his father's death in some way.
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
I'm saying if the allegations are true, his debt was paid with his father's life. If you're responsible for someone's death aren't there normally consequences for that? You get your dad killed and now you're off the hook because people feel bad that you have a severe gambling problem?
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If a loan shark kills your friend because you didn't pay him back with interest what should happen to you?
 
getback said:
He's not criminally responsible for his death though.

The banishment would have to be related to his gambling. Unless Mike was in on his father's death in some way.
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You think his gambling was legal? Even beyond that, you got people who don't want the truth to come out because it might hurt the league. Lol.
 
BIG LEEMELONE said:
You think his gambling was legal? Even beyond that, you got people who don't want the truth to come out because it might hurt the league. Lol.
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I don't necessarily think his gambling was legal, no.

I'm speaking from a legal perspective.

Would be a slippery a** slope if I shoplifted and then the store owner went and killed my family and EYE was held responsible for the killing :lol:
 
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