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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Look. I like the nba and certainly don’t agree that it’s a bad product. But can’t agree with you that there aren’t serious issues with the product.
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I've been the one banging the drum about their being too many threes in the NBA long before anybody here, but that doesn't mean the NBA is a "dying" league. It's flourishing by any metric you look at, which is part of the reason why Silver has been reluctant to change anything about it to this point.
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I also don’t agree that it is harder to rig. I’ve never looked into it so I’m willing to hear if I’m wrong. It just seems to me there are so many more meaningless games and one player can make such a huge impact… nba seems way easier to rig. I mean coaches are conceding games left and right before the game even starts
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All that rigging an NFL game would require is getting one starting QB (hard to do, but still a possibility depending on the player's contract status) or one or two refs (much easier to do) in a particular game. If it's happened in high level professional soccer (and it has often), I'm absolutely sure it's happened before in the NFL where similarly large amounts of money are bet on a weekly basis.