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[QUOTE="Dave85, post: 1763230, member: 3946"]
I thoroughly enjoyed the 2015-16 CBB season.  I will watch again this fall.  I'm not a big fan of the NBA.  It's a much different style of play and rules.    But the 2002 Kings versus Lakers game just ended my NBA watching career:

"On June 10, 2008, convicted NBA referee [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Donaghy']Tim Donaghy[/URL]'s attorney filed a court document alleging that Game 6 was fixed by two referees. The letter states that Donaghy "learned from Referee A that Referees A and  wanted to extend the series to seven games."

I watch this game with a bunch of family while I was on vacation in Holden Beach NC.  It was the first NBA game I watch in 10 years.  It absolutely killed me.  I am not even a Kings fan and I was screaming at the TV.  It was just unbelievable to watch.  I have never seen anything like ever in my life.  It has made me ultra-sensitive to refs throwing a game.  I did not think refs throwing a game was really true until I watch that game.  I haven't been able to watch the NBA since.

[URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_NBA_Playoffs[/URL]

If there are no rules that can be easily understood and enforced then it is not a game.  It becomes championship wrestling at that point.  That is why I always plug the idea the charge-block rules in college basketball really need to be clarified.  I think the charge-block calls are a much bigger problem for CBB than kids leaving early for the NBA.  Charge-block calls can really destroy the game.
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