We Can All Agree That ‘Something’ Happened

I’m not sure what my take on Donaghy: The Revenge is, but it’s certainly not hysterical. Which is why I wanted to pass on the following quotes from Vlade Divac, a man heavily involved in the 2002 series that everyone’s fixated on. From The Sacramento Bee:↵↵⇥“I knew something was wrong then, and I still know something was wrong,” said Divac, who fouled out of Game 6, as did fellow Kings center Scot Pollard.↵⇥
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↵⇥“My first reaction to hearing this is that I hope it’s not true. There was definitely something going on, but in my imagination, I never could have taken it so far to think that the league was behind it.”↵↵

↵Take heed, because this is a guy who has as much reason to be hurt, angry, and suspicious about this as anyone. I like his “something going on,” since that captures the way a most sane people feel about that series. Something wasn’t right. There are many ways of explaining it — some sinister, some petty, a few excusable. Yet Divac, like Van Gundy, simply won’t believe that Stern orders these kind of things. You can say they’re in denial, and have a vested interest in believing in the NBA’s integrity. But at some point, don’t we have to trust them over our own armchair speculation?↵
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↵We may never know what “something” was, but like Vlade, we might have to settle for vagary and hang onto to that last scrap of faith in the league.↵