Coming back to this after Dallas WHOOPED up on the Suns in game 7. They were on pace to surpass this, but a late run by Phoenix secured this game's place as, for now, still the worst game 7 blowout in NBA history by scoring deficit.
I know your comment is almost a decade ago but Tim Donaghy admitted he gambled on this series WHILE being the referee on an innterview. He called excessively on illegal screens against Yao Ming.
Very talented team, very talented. I am a Spurs fan but that team was just so damn talented it was crazy! I could have sworn they would win a title in the next year or so with that team, they just fell short in 06 and now thats history.
They were up 2 4/5 games to none (up with a few minutes left in game 3) to take a 3-0 lead that no one has ever came back from .. then the mob connected gambling ring game fixing refs took over and turned Wade into MJ on steroids in the 4th quarter with a foul call every time down the floor.
Biggest Mav fan ever, and I agree with you. But we saw the Mavs play the Heat in a series in which they were up 2-0 that had to be rigged. Also remember so many Suns/Spurs series that felt wrong? One game Dirk was so not himself, and got none of the calls... the Rockets had the win, and the officials made so many calls for the Mavs at the end. They won barely. This was back when every series felt off if you were honest with yourself.
If you're talking about Donaghy, he never said the series was rigged. He said Cuban complained after Game 2 that Yao was setting illegal picks. Instead of the league telling him to shut it, they admitted he was right and warned both teams that Yao won't get away with that shit anymore. The Rockets obviously adjusted, because Yao wasn't called for illegal picks in Game 3 either. This video shows the only illegal pick set by Yao in this game, and it was an easy call.
@metallicarox80s Oh, sorry I misunderstood. No, I don't know of any separate video of it. What's the point though, if it's already shown here? Are you wanting to post it on a forum or something?
Tmac and his malediction of the 1st round…. He should not left the Magics… The Rockets wanted with the duo Yao/Tmac, to do the same than Shaq/Kobe, but it was a failure...
@maxinutri Too bad they blew that damn 13 pt lead late in game three, if they win that one they sweep and are champs! that three not going in should never have been involved in that, they should have won in 5 IMO, they were the superior team that year once they beat SA in 7! If you beat the title team you own the rights to the title, yet they somehow blew it and will forever remember that there.
@maxinutri You got that right they opened up the flood gates. Now that's how you put a team away and not allow them to stay close and hang around to steal the game.
Do you even know the details? Or do you just say "zomg we lost mark cuban david stern tim donaghy means rigged lol" Did it ever occur to you that Donaghy never explicitly stated the series was fixed, only that Yao was told not to set illegal picks anymore? Did it ever occur to you that Yao actually was setting illegal picks in Game 2? Did it ever occur to you that sending clips to the league office is standard procedure?
That's not even true, unless you want to count Howard's bum ankle in last game of the season. Besides, a "healthy Rockets team" is just a pipe dream and has been for years. There comes a point when you're injured so often that it's not an excuse; it's part of your identity.
@taylortype Watch what happens at 1:35. Yao getting away with that over and over again with no call was the reason the Rockets unjustly stole Game 2. Fortunately, the league office then told the refs to start holding Yao to the same rules everyone else was already held to, and the result was a fair series in which the Mavs ran the Rockets out of the gym four times out of five.
Let's talk facts. G1 26% FG 0-2 3pt G2 38% FG 0-1 3pt G3 56% FG 0-0 3pt G4 28% FG. 1-1 3pt G5 40% FG 1-3 3pt G6 22% FG 2-6 3pt G7 35% FG 0-1 3pt *That's 4 3pointer for the entire series...FROM DIRK.* Plus he shot 40% or worst in all but one game. Trust me you're not going to find any "highlight" from Dirk 2005 Mavs vs Rockets series I saw the game myself in real time. Rockets took the first two games in Dallas. Mark Cuban started to cry to David Stern and it was rigged from game 3-7. Game 5 was horrible, the refs couldn't even hide what they were doing in that game. Mark Cuban couldn't accept that they might have been losing because of their best player (Dirk) not showing up. I remember Jeff Van Gundy getting fined in that series. Do you realize what it takes to be fined $100,000 in the nba? He didn't hit anybody or run into the stands. All Jeff Van Gundy did was say that the refs were making very questionable calls against Yao Ming. Just to put that into perspective. Phil Jackson, Larry Brown, and Doc Rivers are the top three most fined Coaches. Phil was fined 8 times for a total of 380,000. That's 47,500 per fine for Phil. Phil single biggest fine is 75,000 in 2011. Larry was fined 7 times adding up to 117,500. Doc was fined 6 times for a total of 115,000. Jeff Van Gundy got fined 100,000 for one comment. It was the single biggest fine for any Coach in NBA History at the time. Tmac was scoring, dunking, and sinking game winners. Plus he had to help hold down Dirk because Shane Battier wasn't playing for the Rockets yet. Yao was getting fouled on the hand and arms I swear they were trying to play patty cake. Plus this Mavs team were known floppers during this era. Yao and Tmac were about to run away with the series easily before the ref stepped in to saved Mark Cuban. People need to watch this *entire* series. Not 5 minutes clips. I like how Mavs fans never talk about Dirk during this series. This is probably why the NBA got tired of Mark in 2006 vs Miami.
A ref was arrested by the FBI for rigging games and in his testimony they willingly rigged this series after tmac owned the mavs in game 1/2 lol. I've read the other comments and this has been proved in court. Along with the 2002 kings vs lakers series
@yolanda262442 OK we can JUST refer to the patriots, but then we have nothing to compare it too, and johnson said point blank he did it as much as any other coach did
@maveholic Jon Barry hates the Spurs too for some reason? maybe because Brent won a title there? He seriously always counts them out and bags on them as I know, yet baldo never had a title and this was his best team he was on and got beat by 40! I guess he hates other Texas teams and clowns them now because baldo could not beat them nor come close to a title. I hate that clown.
Did it ever occur to you that when the league admits a game was called wrong, it informs both teams, as Van Gundy admitted? Did it ever occur to you that Yao wasn't called for any illegal picks in Game 3? Did it ever occur to you that Donaghy only mentioned illegal picks, so Finley's out of bounds play in Game 5 is irrelevant? Did it ever occur to you that Game 7 shows just how unworthy the Rockets were? Nah, you never cared about the details, because none of them favor your victim standpoint.
The refs were actually on Jeff Van Gundy side and tried to tell him the truth. Hence the 100k fine. Mark Cuban would flood the NBA headquarters with email all the time. Calls he felt should've gone the Mavs way. Plus the Mavs were known floppers . The refs did not like to officiate their games during this time. They felt like sticking it to Mark when he go to the Finals vs the Heat. Had Mark just chill they might have a champ in 2006. Karma.
RIGGED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SERIES...DALLAS' FANS WON'T ADMIT IT BUT IT'S TRUE...GAME 7 WAS WHEN THE ROCKETS LOST FOCUS, THEY WERE LIKE THE KINGS LIKE FUCK IT, "THE ONLY TEAM YOU CAN'T BEAT WERE THE REFEREES"
lol@mike james...where is that guy now in days? Still in the NBA? I remember watching T-Mac craying eyes all watery from the bench with towel over his head. These were good ol' days.
@shadyparadox F what Donaghy says all the time, like he is the voice of all fixed games now with a book out. I am sure some were fixed, but he is not the voice of reason now IMO. A 40 point win though? Thats an azzwhooping and beyond embarasing, thats all I KNOW.
Wasn't tainted or rigged. The Mavs were screwed in Game 2, Cuban sent the evidence, the NBA agreed they blew a bunch of calls, they warned both teams the rules would be enforced thereafter, the Rockets adjusted, and the Mavs still proved they were the better team. There was no actual mention by Donaghy of foul play either, only suggestive terminology like "targeting" (but he still admitted the league was "enforcing the rules"). He only mentioned foul play regarding the Lakers/Kings series.
lol @ rockets fans complaining of officials in a 40 POINT GAME gtfo Houston, hope you never win a damn thing again actually with Yao gone now it's a definite guarantee you're not winning a chip... lol with Kevin Martin as the superstar? Get real
Remember when the 8th seed warriors destroyed the mavs, or when the mavs blew a 2 game lead to the heat in the finals, or this year when Brandon Roy single handedly dismantled the mavs in game 4, HAHAHA I do. Dallas: Home of the choke artists, they really are the best.
In which he also says the '06 Finals were rigged. Now why would the evil NBA fix a FIRST ROUND SERIES for the Mavs one season, then screw them over in the CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND the very next year? Oh yeah, so that Donaghy can sell more books. The actual story is much less exciting, I'm afraid. Cuban had a point about the illegal screens early in the series and the league agreed to not let Houston cheat any more.
@yolanda262442 actually no you dont, jimmy johnson admited he did the same thing as the patriots and that many other coachs where as well, even the colts where doing it
Kings-Lakers Game 6 is the only game definitively known to be fixed, the others are just people making a scene. You're a pretty weak Mavs fan to succumb to this particular accusation, considering it was one of the more baseless ones.
Coming back to this after Dallas WHOOPED up on the Suns in game 7. They were on pace to surpass this, but a late run by Phoenix secured this game's place as, for now, still the worst game 7 blowout in NBA history by scoring deficit.
DIRK WAS SO FAST WHAT THE
Dirk, Fin, JET, J-Ho, Stack off the bench. That team was underrated. The spurs just had our number that year.
GMR9X that next round Steve Nash exposed Jason Terry and Shawn Marion was destroying Josh Howard, and dirk got owned by amare stoudamire.
@@gabrielr.johnsoniii2067 The Suns had home court advantage.. And the Mavs were not a great "Defense Team"
he also said nba didnt want houston to win at home after leading the series 2-0
I came here after the Mavs demolished Phoenix!
You get thrashed by 40 points and have the audacity to blame the refs?? Oh goodness, what sort of horrible misery to be a Rockets fan.
It was games 3 and 4 that the referees took over.
I know your comment is almost a decade ago but Tim Donaghy admitted he gambled on this series WHILE being the referee on an innterview. He called excessively on illegal screens against Yao Ming.
Mavs were not gonna to force it to game 7 without the help of the refs
Very talented team, very talented. I am a Spurs fan but that team was just so damn talented it was crazy! I could have sworn they would win a title in the next year or so with that team, they just fell short in 06 and now thats history.
They were up 2 4/5 games to none (up with a few minutes left in game 3) to take a 3-0 lead that no one has ever came back from .. then the mob connected gambling ring game fixing refs took over and turned Wade into MJ on steroids in the 4th quarter with a foul call every time down the floor.
I was at this game btw. It got so bad McGrady quit lol
Haha, i hope you came back to this comment with hindsight 😂
Biggest Mav fan ever, and I agree with you. But we saw the Mavs play the Heat in a series in which they were up 2-0 that had to be rigged. Also remember so many Suns/Spurs series that felt wrong? One game Dirk was so not himself, and got none of the calls... the Rockets had the win, and the officials made so many calls for the Mavs at the end. They won barely. This was back when every series felt off if you were honest with yourself.
The Dallas Mavericks are running the Houston Rockets out of the building
To this day, this is still the biggest Game 7 blowout in NBA history.
Update: So apparently, the refs rigged this series against Yao Ming’s Rockets.
Definitely I remember like it was yesterday
And on this night my innocence was lost
There's no place like home, the Mavs are playing on a high level and with a great deal of confidence.
If you're talking about Donaghy, he never said the series was rigged. He said Cuban complained after Game 2 that Yao was setting illegal picks. Instead of the league telling him to shut it, they admitted he was right and warned both teams that Yao won't get away with that shit anymore. The Rockets obviously adjusted, because Yao wasn't called for illegal picks in Game 3 either.
This video shows the only illegal pick set by Yao in this game, and it was an easy call.
Damn old RUclips comments
@metallicarox80s Oh, sorry I misunderstood. No, I don't know of any separate video of it. What's the point though, if it's already shown here? Are you wanting to post it on a forum or something?
Thats a GDAMN shame. I really thought McGrady and Yao could take this team places that year
Biggest choke in NBA history..Winning the first 2 road games and than losing the series in 7
that was like the best squad in the MAVS
@ballin7077 That's not what Cuban said. Usually the NBA office ignores his complaints, but this time they listened.
THIS MUST BE A GOOD POINT BECAUSE IT HAS CAPITAL LETTERS
Mavericks destroy the Rockets in GM 7 by 40 points
HAHAHA!! I LOVE IT!!!
this brings back memory how dallas was a dominant team
Tmac and his malediction of the 1st round…. He should not left the Magics… The Rockets wanted with the duo Yao/Tmac, to do the same than Shaq/Kobe, but it was a failure...
@yolanda262442 what do you mean what about belichick? He said that other coachs where doing the Exact same thing inluding him,
Dallas Mavericks destroy the Houston Rockets in 7 GMS by a record margin 40-pts
Dallas Mavericks been to the 2 nba finals appearances and win a championship once in 2011
Jason Terry the Jet replaced Steve Nash in the NBA off-season summer 2004
Rockets tried but failed
Man Dirk always had inferior supporting casts, but if Luka could just have this supporting cast..
@maxinutri Too bad they blew that damn 13 pt lead late in game three, if they win that one they sweep and are champs! that three not going in should never have been involved in that, they should have won in 5 IMO, they were the superior team that year once they beat SA in 7! If you beat the title team you own the rights to the title, yet they somehow blew it and will forever remember that there.
I/diot
It was not fixed, nor did Donaghy claim it was fixed.
Read the comments section so I don't have to repeat my case.
they won by like 40 points but it was fixed? please
Dallas Mavericks destroy and beatdown the Houston Rockets in game 7 by 40 points
I don't know if the mavs can do this anymore....
man could really use this josh howard at sf against okc
@maxinutri You got that right they opened up the flood gates. Now that's how you put a team away and not allow them to stay close and hang around to steal the game.
Dallas Mavericks just poured it on,a 40-pt lead
Do you even know the details? Or do you just say "zomg we lost mark cuban david stern tim donaghy means rigged lol"
Did it ever occur to you that Donaghy never explicitly stated the series was fixed, only that Yao was told not to set illegal picks anymore? Did it ever occur to you that Yao actually was setting illegal picks in Game 2? Did it ever occur to you that sending clips to the league office is standard procedure?
That's not even true, unless you want to count Howard's bum ankle in last game of the season.
Besides, a "healthy Rockets team" is just a pipe dream and has been for years. There comes a point when you're injured so often that it's not an excuse; it's part of your identity.
Gu ndy rest tracy ...slaugh t yao til time expired 40pt lead
There were no "calls on Yao etc". That's an urban legend that Rocket fans love.
This is why I've been deleting these whiny comments thus far.
small ball line up putting dirk on 5
read his book personal foul
@taylortype Watch what happens at 1:35. Yao getting away with that over and over again with no call was the reason the Rockets unjustly stole Game 2. Fortunately, the league office then told the refs to start holding Yao to the same rules everyone else was already held to, and the result was a fair series in which the Mavs ran the Rockets out of the gym four times out of five.
@metallicarox80s It's taken you 20 minutes to search a 7 minute video? Anyway, 4:01
lmao no wonder Jeff Van Asshurt always hates on Dallas when he does commentary for their games
@metallicarox80s Yes.
You admit everything I said was true, you admit you have no counterargument, yet you maintain your original position?
You're some piece of work.
Yeah, I get a lot of whiny Houston fans here.
Let's talk facts.
G1 26% FG 0-2 3pt
G2 38% FG 0-1 3pt
G3 56% FG 0-0 3pt
G4 28% FG. 1-1 3pt
G5 40% FG 1-3 3pt
G6 22% FG 2-6 3pt
G7 35% FG 0-1 3pt
*That's 4 3pointer for the entire series...FROM DIRK.* Plus he shot 40% or worst in all but one game. Trust me you're not going to find any "highlight" from Dirk 2005 Mavs vs Rockets series
I saw the game myself in real time. Rockets took the first two games in Dallas. Mark Cuban started to cry to David Stern and it was rigged from game 3-7. Game 5 was horrible, the refs couldn't even hide what they were doing in that game. Mark Cuban couldn't accept that they might have been losing because of their best player (Dirk) not showing up. I remember Jeff Van Gundy getting fined in that series. Do you realize what it takes to be fined $100,000 in the nba? He didn't hit anybody or run into the stands. All Jeff Van Gundy did was say that the refs were making very questionable calls against Yao Ming. Just to put that into perspective. Phil Jackson, Larry Brown, and Doc Rivers are the top three most fined Coaches. Phil was fined 8 times for a total of 380,000. That's 47,500 per fine for Phil. Phil single biggest fine is 75,000 in 2011. Larry was fined 7 times adding up to 117,500. Doc was fined 6 times for a total of 115,000. Jeff Van Gundy got fined 100,000 for one comment. It was the single biggest fine for any Coach in NBA History at the time. Tmac was scoring, dunking, and sinking game winners. Plus he had to help hold down Dirk because Shane Battier wasn't playing for the Rockets yet. Yao was getting fouled on the hand and arms I swear they were trying to play patty cake. Plus this Mavs team were known floppers during this era. Yao and Tmac were about to run away with the series easily before the ref stepped in to saved Mark Cuban. People need to watch this *entire* series. Not 5 minutes clips. I like how Mavs fans never talk about Dirk during this series. This is probably why the NBA got tired of Mark in 2006 vs Miami.
I typed in Dallas rockets rigged and this was the first thing to pop up. Interesting, I was looking for something else lol
A ref was arrested by the FBI for rigging games and in his testimony they willingly rigged this series after tmac owned the mavs in game 1/2 lol. I've read the other comments and this has been proved in court. Along with the 2002 kings vs lakers series
Who made the shots then ?
Why is Mike James is acting like a superstar?
@yolanda262442 OK we can JUST refer to the patriots, but then we have nothing to compare it too, and johnson said point blank he did it as much as any other coach did
its called how can the NBA change a series a make up game
@shadyparadox YEP.
@ballin7077 No, he didn't.
@ballin7077 Maybe you should read what he said more carefully.
@ballin7077 Says who?
I have mavs won a championship yet...i rest my point.
@shadyparadox ok well ppl cursing on the internet dont scare me either...ill PM u the vid
@23BetterThanYou23 That never happened.
116-76 i don't think it matters if the series is rigged or not still lost by..40??
Cougar338 They shouldnt even have went to a game seven dummy....
Mavericks blue
No, he didn't.
@roxychrislove you still don't have two so the JOKES ON YOU!!!!
@maveholic Jon Barry hates the Spurs too for some reason? maybe because Brent won a title there? He seriously always counts them out and bags on them as I know, yet baldo never had a title and this was his best team he was on and got beat by 40! I guess he hates other Texas teams and clowns them now because baldo could not beat them nor come close to a title. I hate that clown.
They only won by 40 points LOL!
Did it ever occur to you that when the league admits a game was called wrong, it informs both teams, as Van Gundy admitted? Did it ever occur to you that Yao wasn't called for any illegal picks in Game 3? Did it ever occur to you that Donaghy only mentioned illegal picks, so Finley's out of bounds play in Game 5 is irrelevant? Did it ever occur to you that Game 7 shows just how unworthy the Rockets were? Nah, you never cared about the details, because none of them favor your victim standpoint.
The refs were actually on Jeff Van Gundy side and tried to tell him the truth. Hence the 100k fine. Mark Cuban would flood the NBA headquarters with email all the time. Calls he felt should've gone the Mavs way. Plus the Mavs were known floppers . The refs did not like to officiate their games during this time. They felt like sticking it to Mark when he go to the Finals vs the Heat. Had Mark just chill they might have a champ in 2006. Karma.
I noticed no mavs fans will post the entire game 5. I saw that game live. This is the game that will prove all Mavs fans wrong.
Who has 2 championships???? NOT THE MAVS!!!
RIGGED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SERIES...DALLAS' FANS WON'T ADMIT IT BUT IT'S TRUE...GAME 7 WAS WHEN THE ROCKETS LOST FOCUS, THEY WERE LIKE THE KINGS LIKE FUCK IT, "THE ONLY TEAM YOU CAN'T BEAT WERE THE REFEREES"
lol@mike james...where is that guy now in days? Still in the NBA?
I remember watching T-Mac craying eyes all watery from the bench with towel over his head. These were good ol' days.
The amount of butthurt in this comment section is incredible :^)
dallas bought T. Donaghy
series was rigged
i saw this game. those refs were putting up a lot of points for dallas. we couldn't do anything about it lol
more like "REFS DESTROY ROCKETS"
@shadyparadox F what Donaghy says all the time, like he is the voice of all fixed games now with a book out. I am sure some were fixed, but he is not the voice of reason now IMO. A 40 point win though? Thats an azzwhooping and beyond embarasing, thats all I KNOW.
@conwayandwhitmanman lol y u mad tho?
Wasn't tainted or rigged. The Mavs were screwed in Game 2, Cuban sent the evidence, the NBA agreed they blew a bunch of calls, they warned both teams the rules would be enforced thereafter, the Rockets adjusted, and the Mavs still proved they were the better team.
There was no actual mention by Donaghy of foul play either, only suggestive terminology like "targeting" (but he still admitted the league was "enforcing the rules"). He only mentioned foul play regarding the Lakers/Kings series.
You are crazy
lol @ rockets fans complaining of officials in a 40 POINT GAME
gtfo Houston, hope you never win a damn thing again
actually with Yao gone now it's a definite guarantee you're not winning a chip... lol with Kevin Martin as the superstar? Get real
6 years later who's are superstar now
Geto Ducky Luka and KP
Remember when the 8th seed warriors destroyed the mavs, or when the mavs blew a 2 game lead to the heat in the finals, or this year when Brandon Roy single handedly dismantled the mavs in game 4, HAHAHA I do. Dallas: Home of the choke artists, they really are the best.
wtf happened to the rockets in this game?
bhoj03 They lost
Watching this makes me so angry about yao..come.on man you are like a.faking tower how the hell he cant block a single shot?
In which he also says the '06 Finals were rigged.
Now why would the evil NBA fix a FIRST ROUND SERIES for the Mavs one season, then screw them over in the CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND the very next year? Oh yeah, so that Donaghy can sell more books.
The actual story is much less exciting, I'm afraid. Cuban had a point about the illegal screens early in the series and the league agreed to not let Houston cheat any more.
@yolanda262442 actually no you dont, jimmy johnson admited he did the same thing as the patriots and that many other coachs where as well, even the colts where doing it
@pats4lifebb Post it, bitch. Bare assertions don't intimidate me, bitch.
fuckin rigged
Kings-Lakers Game 6 is the only game definitively known to be fixed, the others are just people making a scene.
You're a pretty weak Mavs fan to succumb to this particular accusation, considering it was one of the more baseless ones.