So, basically, what I’m saying (and what I think Melody is saying in a round-about way): The NBA has requested YouTube to take down Game 6 clips on copyright grounds, which is their legal right. They have not, however, requested YouTube take down any of the other 1,000,000 long NBA clips. (You can watch Game 7 in its entirety, more or less.)

That makes it all better. Yeesh.

Way to throw gas on the fire there, NBA.

If there’s nothing to hide, why are they trying so hard to hide it?

They want to protect thier ‘One Rogue Official’ argument. This stinks more and more. I used to think it was probably just favoritism to the ‘star power’ of LA. Now I REALLY believe. ‘2002 Western Conference Champions’ banners need to appear at ARCO next year as often as we can make it happen.

from a write-up on the Bavetta investigation.

At his news conference Thursday, Stern made his strongest statements ever regarding the 2002 Kings-Lakers game, saying: “You can watch it, you can look at it again, and you could see what we call the correct, incorrect and non-call incorrect. ... My guess is it won’t be pretty, but it won’t be dishonest and it won’t be illegal. Of that I assure you.”

Well, I guess we can’t actually watch it, but we get your point Mr. Stern.

On a side note I was looking at the box score for game 6 and I don’t know how they did it but Shaq going 13-17 from the FT line has got to be the proof that everyone has been looking for that confirms the game was fixed.