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From: stan@tikal.UUCP (Stan Tazuma)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Dick Stockton
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 13:55:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 13:55:11 1985
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You must be joking.  Dick Stockton has always been very Pro-Boston.
Tom Heinsohn--well, how can you blame him for rooting for Boston, too?
He was a Boston player and coach.

The bias becomes apparent when you hear what point of view is being
expressed the majority of the time, and also by the tone of the voice
when those views are being expressed.

Those two continually speak in terms of what Boston has to do, what
Boston is about to do.  When leads are being lost, they continually
speak in terms of what Boston has to do to complete the comeback, or
to hold back the Lakers.

Dick Stockton has a noticable rise in his voice when he discusses
things like the "Great Larry Bird" (his comment about Kareem after the
first game "he just plain got whipped by Robert Parish" {pretty strong
words}), "The 8-0 record of Boston vs. LA",
"Boston is One of the Greatest Cities in the World (Game 6)" (didn't
say much about LA except that it was hot),
"Boston has some of the Greatest Fans in the World (also Game 6)"
(his corresponding comments about LA fans are demeaning, except to
say that there were plenty of stars).

- I will allow that Dick Stockton did game 6 more even-handed (in spite
  of the above-mentioned comments).
- Heinsohn has great praise for Worthy, a bit less for Magic, but after
  that he doesn't say too much in LA's behalf.
- They talk only about Bird's injuries when he doesn't shoot well
  (when have they ever mentioned good defense by LA which caused him
  to miss?)

It was a great Game 6 for the Lakers, I'm glad they won.
I'm not a big Laker fan, but in an LA vs. Boston series, I'll take
LA any time.  Boston gets away with things more often than other teams
(twice Larry Bird did obvious charging but didn't get called for an
offensive foul); lack of fairness is disgusting to watch, and loses
fans (almost is losing me).