ESPN Looks at How Donaghy Fixed Games (may have)

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    Good thing that doesn't happen anymore
     
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    It was only one single solitary ref and never has happened since. How fortunate.
     
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    I have to think that they know if another ref came out and was fixing a large amount of games, that the league would be beyond fucked. The owners/NBA would lose so much money and all respect for the product they put out. That makes me think that a lot goes on behind the scenes to make sure this doesn't happen again and if it does it'll be dealt with without any of it leaking out.
     
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    It isn't a coincidence that this era is the time I stopped really watching the games. Watching the Kings get screwwwwwwwed against the Lakers was just sick.
     
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    The article mildly critiques both the legal system's findings, and the leagues's Pedowitz Report. It never links to the Pedowitz Report, so here it is (a 130-page pdf file I saved years ago).

    http://www.nba.com/media/PedowitzReport.pdf
     
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    I heard Donaghy on a podcast a couple years ago and he claimed at the time that there were multiple refs fixing the spread and that they made bets on which ref did things like goad a player into an ejection or a coach etc. The go to move was to saddle players with foul trouble or create empty possessions ...3 sec calls, etc.
     
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    get ready for this again to close this season

     
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    If the investigation didn't inform David Stern about Tim they would have wired Tim and found out that refs like Scott Foster and Ken Maurer (still reffing) were fixing games too. There's a reason the NBA leaked the Tim story to the New York press to stop that from happening. Ken and Scott are dirty.
     
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    Donnaghy has run an online sports gambling site since he got out of jail I've read. Don't gamble so never checked it out.
     
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    ...that's in the article as well, only for a few years after prison :dunno:
     
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    I can't fathom they are dirty anymore just because of how Silver wants to expand the game into the gambling market. If they are still dirty and the NBA hasn't done anything to them then that is a recipe for the end of the league.
     
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    under the table betting will never stop...it's an addiction for some..and there are a lot of them in sports..side bets..
     
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    Interesting reddit post concerning Scott Foster.
     
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    Idk...I think they learned what not do from Tim. They probably just changed how they do it so as to not get caught.
     
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    Scott Fixter?

    You don't say..
     
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    So, he bet against the Blazers every time
     
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    Riiiiiight
     
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    It would have. That's exactly why the NBA leaked it. Too warn other refs about the incoming stings and that Tim had flipped. There were others
     
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