People think of New Orleans teams like we're a minor league farm system for the real teams in the league. Noone wants to see New Orleans excel consistently. We are one of the smallest if not the smallest market, TV market etc. We consistently get very tough officiating. The Atlanta game was a perfect example. I'm sorry but the Patriots and the Cowboys don't get killed by the refs like that. A win versus the Falcons giving the Saints a good chance of home-field through the playoffs . The Pelicans get treated even worse. Jrue Holiday drives the lane more than most guards in the league and gets hit every time but he never gets to the free throw line. Boogie is a premier big body post scorer also rarely shoots free throws. For a New Orleans team to win it must beat its opponent and overcome lopsided officiating. Period. Players and coaches know this and some of them eventually get disillusioned with the uphill battle of playing in New Orleans. I can't remember a single instance when an established head coach of a team leading its division was rumored to coach somewhere else EVER. How can that even be possible? What's worse is that these stories are never laughed off and treated as ludicrous. Ever since we've had Anthony Davis there's been one rumor after another about where AD is going. He's got three years left on his contract. He's easily a top 5 player in the NBA. Now Kyrie another top 5-10 player did just pull off a move like that but its obvious when every time the Pelicans have a great young player the talk is never about his chances of success in New Orleans, instead it's always what big market team he will win a championship with. If AD leaves New Orleans, I wont watch the NBA until he retires. I cannot watch Anthony Davis win a ring with the Lakers Knicks or Rockets or whatever big Market City he ends up with. The NBA is blatant with its lopsided officiating , free agent and draft maneuvers. I mean the Hornets drafted Kobe Bryant and immediately traded him for Vlade Divac. It's not like people didn't know who Kobe Bryant was. Everyone knew he was the next big thing. Nobody trades that guy. And not for Vlade Divac who was actually past his prime. Still a good player but it's not like the Hornets were ready to contend for a ring. They weren't going to let Kobe Bryant play in New Orleans. No he was going to play in Los Angeles where the NBA could maximize the $$$ he could generate for the league. Very smart business. Very unfair to New Orleans. Anthony Davis will probably end up a Laker too. And like I said when AD goes to the Lakers I'll be done with the NBA. And if the officiating for the Saints remains so lopsided............uumnnngggghj!!!! I want feedback here. Am I wrong or is this a real possibility?

I think you are wrong. I don't see many games like the Saints-Falcons. The only game you can really use as an example is that one... give me another. There really isn't none. Do they blow calls sure but outside of that I don't see the Saints as a farm team if so Why did we end up with the draft we did. We have O rookie of the year canidate and the D rookie of the year canidate. If we were a farm team we'd end up with players on the cusp of being NFL players and not Rookie of the years.