We have all seen it.
The game is tied with less than a minute to play. The star player has the ball in his hands and subsequently has five fouls to his name. Said star player drives to the basket and is met by a defender, who is more or less a role player, trying to draw the charge.
The defenders feet are set and the star player plows him to the ground.
What does the referee do?
They gives the star player "the star treatment" and elects to penalize the defender for a block.
But why?
Isn't there a rule book you should go by?
Why is it that the league allows the game to be dictated by those on the court?
Last year the NBA brought in 3.2 billion dollars in basketball related income. They filled the seats at 17,497 people per contest, and will continue to try and do so.(1)
David Stern and his organization rely on yearly revenue to keep the doors open, as does every other business in the world, using the players as the product and the fans as the consumers.
If you have watched television in the past ten years you would notice that the league does their best to se ...
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