A few years ago a unofficial error was made that might of cost the Dallas Mavericks a NBA Championship, a few years later, same story. In Game 5 of the 2006 NBA Finals where the Dallas Mavericks were trying to get a win in Miami. Trying to stop them, Dwyane Wade drives towards the basket with one second left and gets fouled. The real controversy is how he got fouled. The referee said it was on Dirk Nowitzki who was barely in the play, the only person who had contact with Wade was Devin Harris who from the footage looks like all he did was touch his leg. Wade hit both free throws and won by one, which led to the Miami Heat's first NBA Championship.
Nuggets up by two games to none, the series gets shifted back to Dallas where it was a game where Mavericks were leading early in the first quarter but Carmelo Anthony tied it at the end of the first with a dunk.
Going into the second quarter Mavericks got off to another quick start with a five point lead but Nuggets took the lead five minutes left with a pair of Chauncey Billup's free throws and hang with a three point lead going into halftime.
In the third quarter Nuggets stretch their lead out to six until the mavs come back to bring it within one. Then the Nuggets stretch it to four and mavs come back within one. Finally Nuggets make the margin four again and Jason Kidd hits a buzzer beating two pointer to bring it within one.
In the fourth quarter, its a quarter of lead changes where the biggest lead is when Jason Terry with 31.1 seconds left hits a three to put Mavericks up by four. With 28.5 seconds left Anthony makes a dunk to bring within two and with six seconds left Antoine Wright is guarding Anthony and means to intentionally foul Anthony, but the referee doesn't call it and Anthony goes up for a three and with one second left he drains it and gives the Nuggets the lead by one. Nowitzki misses a desparation three to lose the game.
Later on the NBA apologizes and admits that they missed that intentional foul that could of saved the Mavericks.
Nowitzki has had some off court dealings with his girlfriend, he wanted to marry her but his family wanted Nowitzki to hire a investigator. It turns out that she had many unpaid bills. She was sent to jail. Nowitzki, the class act that he is, visited her in jail.
Its not sure Nowitzki is a jynx but a alternative solution might be Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner. Rumors are, that the NBA hates Mark Cuban and fines him consistently and Mark Cuban is more then happy to pay the fines, "his latest act was tell Kenyon Martin's mom that Martin is a punk" It is possible that the Mavericks could be getting punished through games, through the referees because of Mark Cuban's behavior althrough it is very unlikely.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment