Breaking News: Donaghy Claims NBA had hand in Fix

[magicfan4life05]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baske ... _on_n.html

Ex-referee Tim Donaghy blows whistle on NBA dirty secrets

By JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, June 10th 2008, 4:00 PM


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

[magicfan4life05]

FWIW from the knicks board

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earlier they were talkin about how Donaghy singled out the 2002 Western Conference Championship Game...game 6....Lakers vs Kings

[Alfred]

Uh oh...

[triplet1984]

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.

Does anyone doubt this? The latter? I think Lebron or Kobe or certain other superstars could literally grab a scripting of Rasheed Wallace's worst moments, re-enact them in a ref's face, and not get ejected from a playoff game.

[andrewww]

hmm.. a 2002 playoff series extended to a 7th game? i wonder who was involved in that series LOL

[A.J.]

Uh oh...

You beat me to it.

[Blame Rasho]

Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were

[Kobay]

Sheed tells it like it is.

[andrewww]

i guess this confirms what a lot of ppl called a conspiracy against the kings in the 2002 wcf then.

[magicfan4life05]

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.

There was only one series that went to a game 7 in 2002...

That's the same game that Kobe elbowed Mike Bibby in the jaw, and Bibby got charged for the foul.


This is terrible news if true.

BSPN is going to talk about it right now.

[boomann21]

I don't doubt this for a NY second.

[Kobay]

Well, there you go. Bye bye NBA i'll stop watching this game after this finals.

[DMannOC]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/2008/06/10/2008-06-10_exreferee_tim_donaghy_blows_whistle_on_n.html

Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were

[Heat3]

That's the sad thing. Most people will actually believe this guy because that is how the NBA appears to operate. Can't wait to see David Stern bad mouth this guy again.

[andrewww]

watch someone come out in a couple of yrs citing game 2 of this year's finals as being fixed.

[triplet1984]

to be fair, 2002 WCF was always one of those self-evident things, it had to either be corruption or incompetence that should have resulted in firings. Its an easy one to latch on to.

[T-Mac-4-Eva]

So, I don't see the news. I've known this since 2002.

[Kobay]

Why not 2006 finals?

[Don Draper]

I am actually happy about this. Most likely David Stern will be removed from power and the NBA can dominate North American professional sports.

[Kobay]

It happens every even years. And Ironically, Spurs win in their odd years. Mmmm conspiracy???