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The NBA seems to attract conspiracy theories at a far greater clip than any other league. There are the draft lottery conspiracies, the refereeing conspiracies, and of course, the playoff conspiracies. Almost all of these are predicated on the idea that the league wants teams from bigger markets to succeed for ratings purposes, which is why a social media mishap discovered late yesterday is causing such a commotion.

The NBA's Facebook page has an events tab, and that's where it all went down. Complex reported yesterday that there were events posted that listed the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers as the competitors in the NBA Finals—even though Golden State has yet to win its Western Conference Finals matchup with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Those events seem to have been removed, but not before speculation got going that the fix is in.

Clearly, it could just have been an oversight on the part of the league's social media team. But with the Warriors as the darlings of the NBA this season—and hailing from a bigger market than the Thunder—this incident will certainly find a place in conspiratorial folklore.

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Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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