I watched it last night. I also read his book personal Foul. Tim Donaghy might be a compulsive lier but I still don’t think he was the only referee doing shady things to fix games and have it in for certain players & owners. Also talked about how the FBI wanted to do a big investigation on the NBA and wanted to put a wire on Donaghy. It never happened because David Stern found out that was the plan and said it was an Isolated incident. I just think it’s interesting. There are still referees that were said to be tight with Donaghy that are still in the game today.
Agreed I still remember Sactown getting screwed in the early 2000s by some horrendous calls. They should a won the championship that year, something like 2003 or 2003.
That’s just the one that stands out to me as the most egregious, it certainly could have happened. There seemed to be a lot of suspicious things going on in the early 00’s with the calls going on from what I recall.
Stern was full of it. No way there was only one rogue ref. Just like there were multiple refs who sold their 1st class plane tickets for profit. Too many times the calls leaned to the NBA's favorite teams, Lakers, Celtics, and Bulls.
It was 2002. When I was in Houston many years ago, I played a private poker game with a guy who claimed to have written Donaghy's book and got screwed by him over it.
All they did was downgrade their ticket to coach and received the difference like anyone else would. That wasn't their crime. Their crime was not paying taxes on it. There are millions of people who don't pay taxes on exchanges like that. The difference is there was a spotlight on the refs.
Being that the NBA is such a players star driven league. I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that some of the same things were still happening.
