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i'll copy and paste the lakers/NVE relevant stuff, but its a league wide story.


http://deadspin.com/5336974/an-assist-f ... -the-books

In January 1997, the Lakers' Nick Van Exel handed out 23 assists in a 95-82 victory over Vancouver, a feat less attributable to his sharpshooting teammates than to the numbers-fudging Lakers fan working the Grizzlies' scorer's table.up some numbers, and SportsCenter might just bring itself to show a Grizzlies highlight.

Which is how, one night in Vancouver, Nick Van Exel nearly tied Magic Johnson's team record for assists in a game...

Partly because I disagreed with the blatant stat manipulation (that I did) and partly because I'm a Laker fan, I gave Nick Van Exel like 23 assists one game. If he was vaguely close to a guy making a shot, I found a way to give him an assist. Afterwards, I fully expected someone to talk to me about it. Indeed they did. A senior management guy - "great job Alex, that'll get this game on Sportscenter tomorrow morning!" We (VAN) lost badly, of course.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_d ... nba,182998

Doesn't surprise me cash, this is how people are now a days. Manipulation over integrity. Goes on in almost all walks of life. It's a shame.

Chris Paul

Patterns wrote:Chris Paul

I'll raise you Steve Nash.

WTF, I thought this kind of crap ended with the ABA.

Oh kind of like Lebrons triple doubles...unbelieavable. This is a shock to me....

Kobe scored 81 right?

slickgreek wrote:Oh kind of like Lebrons triple doubles...unbelieavable. This is a shock to me....

+1

I've been saying the last few years that assists in general have been somewhat overrated because of how they are tracked. I started a big thing with some NO fans that CP3's numbers were inflated, I wrote a huge article about it when he was in the race for MVP with Kobe that year. I watched a couple of NO games in a row and counted the assists and both times he ended up with 2 or 3 more then what I counted. A real obvious one was when they were playing GS toward the end of the year I did it again and CP3 was having an AWFUL game against Baron, and the whole NO team was shooting like 30% and CP3 had to sit out long stretches because of foul trouble and yet I look up at the stats and he had like 11 assists showing when I had counted 5 mayyybe 6 if you were generous...

Not to say that he or Steve Nash or Deron or Kidd are any less of players, they are still quite amazing BUT it does say a little bit about the overall value of the assist stat when looking at guys.

Sofa King wrote:Kobe scored 81 right?

lol they have the highlight reel of every point scored so I believe he did.

Sofa King wrote:

Patterns wrote:Chris Paul

I'll raise you Steve Nash.

Where are the checks and balances? It would have been ashamed if a bum like NVE were to surpass magic just because of a some scorekeeper lacked integrity.

One of the first things that comes to mind with this is Lebron James MSG triple double. He was given a triple double but soon one rebound was taken away from him after reviewing it.

so assists are the silicone breasts of the league while points are the real deal? wonder what rebounds are then

Shiggity wrote:so assists are the silicone breasts of the league while points are the real deal? wonder what rebounds are then

nose jobs?

Tummy tucks?

i guess once the hype and crowd gets into it... officials do as well. I guess they want to be noticed as well. Scary thought.