Boom, Boom, Boom, Crackle, Crackle, Crackle, Boom! The athlete walks onto the scene. What sport is this? The WWE? The NBA? Both.
The NBA seems to be taking many ideas from the WWE. And they have good reason. The WWE has ratings that compare to the NFL and NASCAR. The WWE owns Monday and Friday nights with Raw and SmackDown. Each WWE Superstar has their own storyline, feud and entrance music with pyrotechnics. The NBA is copying. When teams are introduced to the fans, music is pumped throughout the arena and pyrotechnics go boom, boom throughout the arena.
And now with disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy saying that he was told by the league office to fix games to improve television ratings this is all coming full-circle. The NBA may be creating feuds, as does the WWE. The supposed script writers of the NBA's league offices are creating feuds that would normally not be there: Lakers vs. Suns, for instance. Or, referee Joe Crawford versus the Spurs. Could Crawford be getting told to make the calls he makes? Only he knows.
Now with NBA referees getting in the action with athletes this raises more questions. Referee Dick Bavetta ran with former player Charles Barkley at the NBA All-Star Game. And in the WWE, referee Charles Robinson was in the ring and lost to The Great Khali.
NBA and WWE referees all wear microphones to pick up sounds from the court or ring. Now NBA coaches wear microphones as well.
Bavetta was a fellow referee with Donaghy in the criticized 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals.
This all makes me wonder.
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