Well this is a dark day in the NBA world. Regardless if true or not, I’m sure this will capture a lot of attention; especialy after one of the worst one-sided officiated games in NBA Finals history…
NY Daily News: Tim Donaghy, who pleaded guilty to charges of betting on games he officiated, is now airing NBA’s dirty laundry.
Ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy told the feds two refs fixed the outcome of one playoff series - and that officials were told not to eject star players from games for fear of hurting ticket sales.
The bombshell allegations are contained in a court document filed Tuesday by Donaghy’s lawyer. It describes the “inner workings” of the NBA in which top league executives used referees to manipulate games.
Donaghy, who pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to charges of betting on games he officiated, told FBI agents “league officials would tell referees that they should withhold calling technical fouls on certain star players because doing so hurt ticket sales and television ratings,” the document said.
Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were “company men” acting in the interest of the NBA conspired to extend a playoff series in 2002 to a seventh game.
The referees allegedly ignored flagrant fouls committed by the team that needed to win. They also reportedly called “made-up fouls” against the other team which led to the ejection of two of their players. The team favored by the refs won that night and the next game to win the series.
Continue reading ‘Ex-referee Tim Donaghy claims NBA is FIXED to feds’
Donaghy fixed Lakers Playoff game?
New LD2k Vid: “Rise Of The Empire”
LD2k’s new video & X-Mas gift to fans…
Tim Donaghy pleads guilty
TLN’s Post-Game Report: Lakers vs. Celtics
Loading ...
well if the NBA is fixed, then lakers are gonna win…
if the nba is not fixed lakers are gonna win….
“no matter how hard you try, you cant stop us now!”
Doesn’t surprise me.
David Stern and his mafia needs to step down. Time for new blood at the helm of the NBA.
I Guess Stern doesn’t know anything about this,huh?
YEAHRIGHT!.com,STERN IS TRASH!!!
It’s referring to the 2002 WCF’s I believe.
The letter says two players fouled out of G6. Vlade & Pollard both did.
Also, check this out:
Game 6 2002 WCF, Lakers/Kings officiating crew: Officials: #27 Dick Bavetta , #16 Ted Bernhardt , #26 Bob Delaney
Game 2 Finals 2008 crew: #43 Dan Crawford , #26 Bob Delaney, #41 Ken Mauer
VERY interesting…
Ef David Stern man. He’s a prick. I never liked him and I always knew that the NBA was fixed. Makes me wanna puke.
UH-OH, IHATE TO SAY T BUT THE NBA IS SLOWL DYING
This is pretty bad. We’ll have to wait for more evidence. But damnit, this is a big “F-YOU” to the league.
i hope he’s just pulling it out of his ass…thats not good for the league if its true..but whatever as far as im concerned, we can not let officiating hurt us..we need to play a lot better than we have been (sorry i said we varisity haha)
Phil comments:
what does that have to do with donahuge? What does it have to do with the alleged “fixed series”? First you say that the nets series was fixed, and back it up with evidence of two ejections. then you come out of left field and say the kings series was fixed too because of a one ref that is still calling games today? Dude pretty mmuch all refs from that year are still calling games in the finals today. whats your point.
Well duh…
Digg it:
http://digg.com/basketball/Ex_referee_Tim_Donaghy_blows_whistle_on_NBA_dirty_secrets_2
I don’t believe in this - however, if you READ his letter then some of his stuff match’s up.
My point is a LOT of people claim G2 of the 08 finals were rigged. Surprisingly, some of these refs also ref’d in lop-sided FINALS games before. That’s all.
Again, I do NOT BELIEVE IN THIS. However, some of the evidence is scary.
see my fear is the other way around — that if the NBA is indeed fixed, they might want Boston to win. Everybody know that Lakers have so much upside specially when Bynum comes back that they’ll be the team to contend with in the West. But who knows how long these Celtics Bit*hes have left in their tank. They might be like the Heat of 2006, one-hit wonders.
They want to prolong this rivalry as much as they can and the only way is to let Boston and Lakers get their share of rings. Boston’s might be now.
In addition, I personally believe these conspiracies are true. How easy is it for league officials to ask these refs to give all close calls to certain teams (may it be home court teams or so.) And this rule about giving respect to certain players that deserve special treatment is just annoying. So what if Lebron or kobe fouls out in the 2nd quarter or gets thrown out for excessively badmouthing the refs. A flagrant foul on Turiaf should be a flagrant foul on Dwight Howard!
This is previlent in the LA-Boston series with the freethrow discrepancy and how David Stern knows that the Lakers are better than the Celtics by coming out of the tougher Western Confrence sooner than the Celtics came out of the easier Eastern Confrence. He knows that if the series goes to seven games that it means that there will be more money, merchandise, and TV money. Another thing that disquiets me with the Donaghy case, is that the refs he was working with were in charge of the only seven game series in the 2002 Playoffs that went seven games, Lakers and Kings. Which means that the Lakers may not have won that series fairly and I’m all for no cheating which may have given the Lakers one of their championships.
Video:
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?&brand=null&videoId=3436504&n8pe6c=2
No news here.
Starting with Mendy “the Celtic” Rudolph, (the long time head of officials) the refs have always helped the Celtics. It took a super team of Magic, Kareem, Worthy and company to finally overcome the whistle blowing “leprechans” - its tough to beat a team when its 5 on 7 (as it was in the day of that piece of sh!t Red Auerbach).
I am not surprised by Donaghy’s allegations.
I think that it’s simple - the NBA is a business, a tycoon, a mega corporation. The more games in a series, the more revenue the NBA makes (whether from sponsors, commercials, or broadcasting). The exposure of 7 games seems more intriguing than a blow out. In efforts to increase profits and extend the series, the referees make more calls in favor of one time, which can ultimately effect the score of the game.
Eh, it’s OK with me if the league is rigged just so much as it’s not blatantly obvious as it was in game two.
Phil Jckson made a good point a while back…
The refs should be independent from the league office and should not be governed by David Stern and his cronies.
I want to see statistics published on refs so we can see which are the good ones and which are the bad ones. We need to start weeding out the lousy ones.
Donaghy - enjoy your time in prison baby!
Don’t forget to bring a nice big jar of vasoline!
the league is corrupt my bro’s, yet when i said this a year or so ago before the donaghy scandal evrybody ridiculed me and told me to stop whinying!I TOLD YOU SO!!!