The Slayer, I wasn't calling you a Laker hater, I was pointing out the hypocrisy of Laker haters when it comes to officiating. There have been several games where officiating did not go in the Lakers favor and I've noticed that Laker haters are noticeably silent when that occurs.
In regards to the Kings/Lakers series, I used to believe it was fixed because that's what I was told by the media and non-Laker fans(I was 12 years old at the time). That was until a friend of mine pointed out that the Kings actually shot more freethrows than the Lakers in that series! So I decided to go on YouTube in my freetime a few years ago and watch the entire series start to finish to see for myself. It turned out that my friend was right.
Take a look at the freethrow disparities between the two teams game-by-game:
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxs...80SAC.html
How was the series fixed for the Lakers?
If there was a fix, it must've been the league trying to push the series to 7 games by any means necessary to maintain the high ratings the series generated, which means that games for both teams were fixed. Tim Donaghy never specified whether the series was fixed for either team.
There is no way you can argue that series was fixed for the Lakers when evidence shows you otherwise.
I remember the Kobe elbow play. Mike Bibby wrapped him up(which is actually a foul) and Kobe elbowed him(mistakenly or not) to break free. The foul wasn't called on Bibby, it was called on Doug Christie who actually did intentionally foul Kobe, thus sending him to the freethrow line.