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Why I Hate Basketball

 
Why I Hate Basketball   Let me first start off by saying, I love basketball.  It’s a fast paced, high scoring, high flying action sport with an incredible amount of drama.  However, the reason I will always hate it is because of how much the officiating determines the outcomes of games. Let’s take last night’s Warriors/Lakers game, for example.  The score was 121 to 119 in OT and the Warriors had the ball.  As they prepared to inbounds it, Derek Fisher from the Lakers started falling down and pulled Monta Ellis on top of him.  The ref, who only saw the end of the play, called the foul on Ellis and the Warriors lost the ball and any hope they had of winning the game.  Now, referees do not always blow calls at the end of the game but it has become often enough where I feel like I am wasting my time watching a 3 hour game end like this.    After all, how many bad calls must a spectator have to suffer through before he gives ... (link)

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