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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:34.4 | Dear Mr. Stern, at a time when the public's confidence is shaken by headlines reporting the breach of trust by corporate executives, |
0:43.1 | it is important for there to be maintained a sense of professionalism in commercial sports. |
0:48.6 | That sense was severely shaken in the now notorious officiating during game six of the Western conference finals |
0:55.4 | between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings. |
1:00.2 | This is a letter Ralph Nader wrote to David Stern in June 2002 after game six of the Western conference finals, |
1:06.4 | the most controversial game in NBA history. |
1:09.5 | Nader is a political activist, best known for his multiple presidential runs where he received nearly 3 million votes in the 2000 election. |
1:16.6 | He is also a huge sports fan. |
1:19.4 | As the judicious Washington Post sports columnist Michael Wilbond wrote this Sunday, |
1:27.3 | too many of the calls in the fourth quarter when the Lakers received 27 foul shots were stunningly incorrect all against Sacramento. |
1:36.3 | After noting that the three referees in game six are three of the best in the game, he wrote, |
1:43.2 | I have never seen officiating in a game of consequence as bad as that in game six. |
1:49.0 | When Scott Pollard on his sixth and final foul didn't as much as touch shack, didn't touch any part of him. |
1:56.0 | You could see it on TV, see it at court side. |
1:59.0 | It wasn't a foul in any league in the world. |
2:03.2 | Nader continued to outline the calls he found most egregious, including Kobe Bryant's elbow to the nose of Kings Point guard Mike Bibby |
2:09.8 | before finally challenging the NBA's power structure. |
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