Read Tim Donaghy's book: Personal Foul: A First Person Account of the Scandal

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Jun 15, 2021
8:19:28am

materialized Contributor

Read Tim Donaghy's book: Personal Foul: A First Person Account of the Scandal

That Rocked the NBA. The premise of the book is about two referees that wanted to extend a playoff series to seven games (Lakers vs. Kings 2002 Western Conference Finals)

Referees rigging games is happening for sure in the NBA, and they have lost a lot of fans because of it.

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POLL: Does the NBA use lopsided officiating to extend playoff series in order to increase revenue?

CougarTailDevourer The Dude Abides

6/15/21 7:46am

That would be so dumb to do and would lead to criminal and collapse of the

Baron

6/15/21 7:51am

Why is Scott Foster still employed when he made 304 phone calls in the five month span between December 2006 and April

CougarTailDevourer

6/15/21 7:53am

How is that relevant to my point.

Baron

6/15/21 7:56am

There were multiple refs involved in the point shaving scandal, the NBA wanted to act like it was a rouge ref, hence

CougarTailDevourer

6/15/21 7:58am

Which is not the same as the league conspiring against one team versus another.

Baron

6/15/21 7:59am

Lets use 2015 for example, in 2015, the road team covered the spread in all 12 playoff games Foster reffed.

CougarTailDevourer

6/15/21 8:00am

And? That doesn't change the logic of it at all.

Baron

6/15/21 8:02am

It does, if the NBA has dirty refs in its ranks, which it never investigated as if it was found out that there had been

CougarTailDevourer

6/15/21 8:08am

And it still doesn't make sense to do so and it lacked evidence then

Baron

6/15/21 8:10am

No, I'm believing that Donaghy's claims about the NBA employing multiple dirty refs and fixing series are correct, as it

CougarTailDevourer

6/15/21 8:13am

Covering the spread doesn’t extend a series. They actually have to win the game.

garyfan

6/15/21 8:02am

NBA absolutely has interest in downplaying the scope/scale of Donaghy scandal

6/15/21 8:14am

If I put on a tin-foil hat and start to believe in Option A, will that help me pretend that’s why the Knicks aren’t good

TCuz

6/15/21 8:09am

Voted "no" but it sure feels like that sometimes.

rockhound

6/15/21 8:10am

Read Tim Donaghy's book: Personal Foul: A First Person Account of the Scandal

materialized

6/15/21 8:19am

I’m not sure I’d trust anything Tim Donaghy says

PHXSUNS31

6/15/21 8:27am

This. Listened to the whistle blower podcast and he contradicts himself a lot.

LakeshowCougs

6/15/21 8:29am

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