Top5 Jordan's "one vote in the century" is controversial.
1998 Game 6 of the finals was held at the home of Utah Jazz. In the last 37 seconds of the game, the Jazz led the Bulls 86-85. At this time, the jazz holds the ball. At the end of the last 24 seconds, Malone got the ball and was ready to attack. Jordan cut the ball as soon as he finished playing it. Then Malone fell to the ground to save the ball, but Jordan had mastered the ball and there were only about 20 seconds left in the game. At that time, Jordan held the ball all by himself and hit the winning goal with 5.2 seconds left in the game.
However, to this day, there is still controversy about the winner. Some fans think that Jordan pushed Russell when he got rid of the defense in the last shot, so that there was room for jump shots. But Jordan said in the documentary The Last Dance that instead of pushing Russell, he knocked Russell down and hit the winner who shocked the world.
Top four in the 2002 Western Conference Finals
The 2002 Western Conference Final Series was also called "the blackest whistle" by fans. At that time, the king played the sixth game with the Lakers. In the last game, Kings led the Lakers 3-2.
The sixth game was held at the king's home court. Throughout the game, the Lakers made 40 free throws, while the Kings only made 25, less than the Lakers 15. Most importantly, in the last quarter, the Lakers only scored 18 points, and 16 points came from free throws.
At that time, there was a "conspiracy theory" for such a scene, that is, the league wanted to "grab the seventh game" (for ratings), so it deliberately arranged for the Lakers to win. After winning this game, the Lakers changed the trend of the whole series. They finally won the championship, broke into the finals of that year and finally won the championship. It is worth mentioning that at that time, the referee of G6 was Tim Donazi, who was notorious later. He had rigged the game many times and participated in gambling.
Top3？ 1988 finals "Phantom foul" 1988 finals, the pistons face the Lakers. At the end of the first five games, the pistons led 3-2. Game 6 will be played at the home of the Lakers. If the Pistons win, it will be the first championship in the team's history. However, at the last moment, the referee's decision changed this history.
In the last 60 seconds of the game, the Pistons led the Lakers by 3 points. At that time, the Lakers called a timeout, and the Lakers' Byron Scott hit a jumper, narrowing the difference to one point. At this time, there are still 45 seconds before the end of the game. Thomas jumped from the baseline again, but this time the basketball bounced out.
Subsequently, the Lakers grabbed the ball, and Abdel-Gabbar made a "hook" stunt on the defense of Pistons center ranbir. The ball failed to hit, but the referee blew the whistle and ranbir was fouled by six players. But fans think that the referee's penalty is controversial. Judging from the slow-motion playback, ranbir's defensive action is relatively clean. The reporter interviewed a number of referees after the game, and most of the interviewed referees thought it was a "phantom" foul. Ranbir didn't seem to take any foul action, but actually did some harm to Jabbar.
There is a saying that the league is not satisfied with Pistons' style of emphasizing physical confrontation and even hurting people, especially ranbir's rogue defense, which has seriously affected the appreciation of NBA. Therefore, many people think that the referee's penalty is the embodiment of the league's attitude towards Pistons and the referee's prejudice against Pistons, especially ranbir.
Top Referees Manipulate 2000 Western Decision G7
In the 2000 Western Conference finals, when the budding KO team (Kobe Bryant and O 'Neill) faced Pippen, Smith and Wallace, the pioneers of the Western Conference finals, the two sides fought fiercely for seven games. Until the last quarter, the Blazers led the Lakers by 15 points, and then in the last quarter, the fans felt incredible 12 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Lakers got 14 free throws. You know, the Blazers' normal free throw is only 16. As a result, the Lakers achieved a shocking reversal in a single quarter. However, for this process, fans obviously do not buy it. So the last section, many people later called it the referee-controlled western conference finals.
Top 1 Alliance Control 2006 Finals? Although it has been 14 years since the 2006 finals, many fans will still remember it. At that time, the Mavericks were led by the Heat for four consecutive games with a total score of 2-0.
However, due to too many controversial penalties in the G6 match, many fans think that the Heat can achieve a big reversal, to some extent, because of the referee's black whistle. More importantly, before this, the famous former NBA black whistle Tim Donazi broke the news that there were many shady events in the finals between Mavericks and Heat in 2006, and the Mavericks regretted losing the championship because the league controlled the game.
It is worth mentioning that in the 2006 finals, Wade made 97 free throws in six games, and on average Wade was able to get 16. 1 free throws in each game. Therefore, the 2006 finals is also considered as the most controversial series in history.