Hold Your Nose, It’s Professional Basketball
Tim Donaghy confers with fellow refs
The revelations in the latest court filing by the lawyer for the former referee Tim Donaghy are not a revelation, but a confirmation of what everyone knows. The NBA is fixed just like the old Saturday night wrestling.
Star players get special treatments in the foul department.
Refs are homers, meaning they call the game for the home crowd,
That foul that wasn’t called against LA in the San Antonio game was a game breaker and a heart breaker.
Sacramento was robbed at home in 2002, not by LA, but by the refs.
Rasheed was right!
Refs act like gods on the floor.
Then there are Donaghy’s revelations:
- That referees “socialized frequently with coaches and players” and asked for autographs and free merchandise, violating league rules.
- That a referee’s relationship with one team’s general manager “led to an attempt by that referee to influence a game’s outcome” in 2004.
- That N.B.A. officials instructed referees not to call technical fouls on “certain star players
David Stern needs to get on this fast or else TV revenues will dive and cities in small TV markets will stop believing they can be world NBA champs!
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