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Dirty Kurty is playing very well.

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I didn't seer the play where Duncan left the bench. Maybe he should have been suspended too. But I have no problem with the off the bench suspensions so long as guys are still doing it. When players no longer leave the bench it wont be an issue.

The rule is to prevent brawls and unnecessary violence, like Greg Anthony sucker punching KJ. The implementation may not always be prefect, but the cause is right.

I thought that foul by Horry was relatively mild. Through in the 80's and 90's that was merely a good, hard "playoffs foul". You want to give him a flagrant one or two just to try to clean up the series, fine, But without all these suspensions for leaving the bench a simple flagrant foul runs the risk of turning really ugly with players and fans as possible casualties.

BTW, does the league really prefer SA over Phoenix? Duncan isn't nearly as marketable as Amare and Nash, and Phoenix seems like the darling of the NBA in the eyes of many sportswriters and fans. If there were any bias involved, shouldn't Nash, the white guy, be the beneficiary? Isn't SA the team raising the profile of the "thuggish" antics Sterns is reputedly so much against?

Something doesn't compute.

Yet Bruce Bowen keeps getting off Scott Free.

True, what is your point? You accuse Stern of masterminding everything with an agenda to Europeanize basketball, but the Suns have the most European coach and system in the league. If this is all part of Sterns grand scheme to push things in the direction of the Suns style, and away from American style thuggery, why is it that the Spurs are the ones reaping an "advantage"?

Well simple

Parker=French
Ginobli=Argentinian
Beno Uldrich=Yugoslavia
Francisco Elson=Netherlands
Frabrito Oberto=Argentinian
Tim Duncan=Virgin Islands


Then the Spurs are 3 time Champions

I saw that coming, but it's bogus. It's a Euro style you accuse him of aiding, not international players themselves, of which the Suns have several too (Nash, Diaw, Barbosa, Bell)

And here it is Bowen, the American, with the American style of play, who gets the slack.

If there is any consistency to your argument it alludes me. Looks like your trying to spin a story of conspiracy and you'll spin it from ever direction possible even if your points contradict each other.

The Spurs have enough international/Euro style players to appease his vision. And remember his vision is more Global than it is anything else. Their Top 3 players are foreign. And you're being technical anyway because both teams satisfy his overall vision. If you feel I'm picking and choosing, then so be it.

[Edited by - TrueBlue on 05-16-2007 1:18 PM]

True, it's not so much about picking and choosing, but you seem to be suggesting that Stern has his hand in every outcome that you disapprove of, and there are so many of them they begin to contradict each other. You can't tell us all the outcomes are bogus, and fit some grand agenda, when there appears little to no consistency to them.

Yesterday you were suggesting that Dirk winning the MVP was corrupt, as if it were Sterns doing. I don't know how you sell that when it's decide by a vote of hundreds of diverse sports observers, but that aside, if Dirk was his Euro darling this year why did he "allow" him to be eliminated in the first round?

Is he catering to fans desires? If so he'd put the fix in for the Western Conference Finals to be GS/Suns, but he "allowed" Utah to beat GS, and he's "fixing it" for the Suns to lose to San Antonio.

And which is it, does he try to sell individual stars or is he trying to sell a European stye of play. If it's to have stars win, why did he allow the Pistons, the team with no stars, to beat one of the great superstar collections of all time: Shaq, Kobe, Malone, Payton?

If he favors the Euro game why did he never put the fix in for Dallas - the original poster child of Euro play - to win it all? Why did he allow Shaq and Wade to defeat Dirk last year? How come he didn't do more to have Toronto advance in the east?

So, how do you reconcile all these contradictions and inconsistencies, and who do you suppose the fix is in for this year? Which two teams will be in the finals, which will win, and why?