Its funny some people are saying the Bulls-Nuggets- and other teams just turned it up once the playoffs started. I really don’t think thats the case to some degree people have to see these teams coming I think its just an excuse for analysts when they don’t predict it. I think when people say something along those lines they haven’t paid attention to the team they’re talking about.

But anyway Denver it was obvious I thought they had a chance even around what march you could see they weren’t slipping. But it says here they did this once the matchups were pretty much all set. Denver had the 2 seed locked for a bit because of their schedule and obviously wouldn’t have met with the lakers. I mean its kinda surprising.
But I wonder if it comes down to whos bigger and I think the NBA will be on a bigger network.

I read an article saying that WWE made plans for the event before the Nuggets/NBA did for the arena; so barring the NBA enticing their offer for that night, the WWE should have an upper hand for this one.

I can sleep at night even if they hold the national Rock, Paper, Scissors competition there that night. Did it really sound like I was serious? Was this originally posted to generate serious comments anyway?

Even if they knew that the WCF would be scheduled for that day, they’d have to weigh the chances that the Nuggets could make it that far and that they’d be the home team on that particular day against the likely large sums of cash a WWE event brings to the arena. If anyone should be blamed for this fiasco, it should be the NBA for not looking at the schedules of the arenas for their remaining teams and swapping the starting days for the WCF and ECF.

As to moving the game to an earlier slot, the NBA has an obligation to ABC to provide a prime time game. Even if ABC let that slide, it’d likely be very, very difficult for them to host an NBA playoff game, empty the arena and prepare it for a WWE event. It’s one thing to do the basketball → hockey switch as everything is already inside the arena for that and they’re used to making that switch. The WWE would have to have the basketball court removed and then begin building a stage, ring area, and layout their pyrotechnics while assuring it’s all done safely.

The NHL’s had to work around a couple conflicts in the past couple years with children’s arena shows. Still, they have to pay for their product to be aired on TV, so rescheduling their games as they did probably didn’t have the same contractual issues.

And I thought the Bulls were the only team who could blow an inbound pass late in the game (or at all).