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Only If You Get Caught

Only If You Get Caught

Did the NBA Really Fix a Playoff Game to Help the Lakers?

Oct 21, 2025 · 31m

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Sacramento Kings fans have long believed that the NBA fixed the 2002 Western Conference finals so the Lakers would win. Patrick is joined by Tommy Craggs to discuss whether they think it actually happened. Episode transcript here . Show Credits Only If You Get Caught is written and hosted, by Patrick Redford . It’s produced by Alex Sujong Laughlin , with production support from Jae Towle Vieira. Editorial support from Tom Ley and Audrey Mardavich. Justin Ellis is Defector’s projects editor. Mixing by Samantha Gattsek Show art by Jim Cooke. Jasper Wang and Sean Kuhn are Defector’s business guys. Thank you to the Defector staff. Defector Media is a collectively owned, subscriber based media…