Quitting NBA Cold Turkey

I think after this season, I'm finally going to quit watching the NBA and subsequently working on this blog.  I pride myself on being a guru.  But I can't be a guru when (#1) I don't watch full games; (#2) there is widespread rigging going on, or (#3) the public is under the perception that there's widespread rigging going on.

When I first started beefing about funny sh*t happening in NBA games, I felt like I was the only one.  But now, I see that to the contrary, those kinda conspiracy theories are common on YouTube.

The reason I inserted the above clip is because, in my last post, I praised De'Aaron Fox.  I made those praises based on highlights.  The highlights from Game 4, the way I interpreted them, depicts Fox as like the best Spurs' player down the stretch.

But the clip above clearly proves otherwise, that his inner Shemp rather came out.  And it just gets to a point where it's like, damn.

The caveat though?  That was a damn good show, one that has already been cemented as one of the top five sports' plays in New York history(!).  And we've already spoken about this at NBA Inception, that in the world of entertainment, nothing beats a well-written script - that you can't have a movie for instance where Tom Cruise loses at the end.

There we are, watching the WWF, knowing that it's fake AF but still, solid family fun.  And maybe it'll all balance in the end anyway.

After initially watching (the highlights from) Game 3, I was under the impression that it was rigged in San Antonio's favor.  Also, the way the Knicks came out totally flat in Game 4, like Brunson not even shooting in the first quarter and shit like that, I thought that was pretty weird also.

And it's like, I just can't take it anymore.  I'm not condemning the NBA for putting on a good show.  The show better be good when the average ticket price is $5k(!).  But I can't embrace this shit like, you know what I mean?  If this is what's truly going down, then it's only a matter of time before scripts reach Harlem Globetrotters' proportions.

CONCLUSION

The NBA couldn't let down all those celebrities at MSG.  But it's like 'which way did he go, which way did he go?'  It's starting to feel like, if one game is rigged for the Spurs and the other for the Knicks, then doesn't all the rigging just eventually balance?  But still it's like, yeah, I hope I can go cold turkey this time.