Reports: Donaghy bet on more than 100 games he worked

WOW... Any Rockets games?

 

Although the venue of entertainment may seem trivial, the value of money and time is staggering, and the punishment should be like mob hits.

 

Money, time, lives.

Go back to barbaric roots, fit the bill to the crime, out intimidate the actual mob threats of punishment in order to force compliance.

-OR-, alternatively, the NBA could implement an official instant replay system to double check calls and supposed non calls. People stop the game for all sorts of reasons already. Why not make it fair, draw in fans, and avoid this mess?

 

AND fight crime. AMAZING!!

 

More than 100 games...wow. Are we minimizing the impact of this?? What it meant to the integrity of the league?? I'm assuming they're investigating to make sure he's not the only one....but I'm less than thrilled it got to this level.

 

Shhhhh! Just keep moving people. Nothing here to see. Come on now, hey you buddy! No photos. Go back to sleep. This was just one ref acting alone. No conspiracy here, no groups of refs who were biased against certain players and coaches (well maybe they did mention that in Donaghy's acitivities) but just watch the shiny metal ball swinging, swinging, you're getting sleepy, you're asleep. Good, now when you wake up you remember nothing except the NBA is clean, solid American entertainment......zzzzzzzz

 

I wonder how many of those he won... probably lost a whole lot of them.

 

I wonder how many of those Barkley wagered on. 4? 34?? ???

 

I hope he bet on the Knicks every single time. Dope.

 

well 100 games certainly is a lot. in 3.5 years there would be about 4200 regular season games so he would've been in on around 2.5% of all the games. that's pretty significant. on the other hand, nothing says he even reffed the games he bet on (edit: except the first sentence of the article). going by the above article (and some other articles) he could simply feed them info on who was reffing a certain game. as in refs x, y, and z are doing this game and they call lots of fouls so take the over. or ref x hates this team, so take the other team. donaghy didn't necessarily affect anything or have anything to do with the outcome of a game. if it weren't for the public relations angle, the gambling industry would probably have more to be mad about than the nba.

 

except for the part where it does say that:

Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy bet on more than 100 games that he worked

 

yeah, i was gonna point that out.

 

i know, i know, i'm an idiot (nothing new).

i just heard them say that on nba fastbreak and realized i was stupid.


to be fair, it was hidden all the way down in the first sentence.

 

The first step to recovery is admitting there is a problem. Good for you. But drop the excuses, which are a step backwards.

Seriously, the NBA is hoping ESPN doesn't harp on this the rest of the playoffs. There is so much (justifiable) chatter about refereeing that it's disturbing.

 

Can you imagine if this were baseball umpires or NFL referees? I think the outcry would be far bigger. In the NFL we have a guy who might have taped some signals to give his team an advantage, and Congress is interested. We had Congressional hearings over whether ONE PLAYER used performance enhancing drugs to give himself an advantage in MLB. Those guys were trying to get over to win.

But this is a referee betting on games HE WAS OFFICIATING!! Over 100 of them. I would argue that strikes far deeper to the core of the integrity of each game you watch than anything short of the coaches betting on their own teams to lose and taking a dive. And there seems to be very little attention paid to this. This is not dominating ESPN...I've seen next to nothing of it. Stern told us the problem was contained....but I think he greatly underestimated its scope. And if even one other referee is doing this, then you're talking about a lot of contests affected.

 

it was a big story

 

Quick, somebody find how many Rocket games did Tim D ref.

 

Where?? Big in that it was reported, perhaps...but not big relative to how the media is running with the Patriots taping coaches thing. We're not cutting time away from ordinary programming to dissect this story. And this story dropped like a rock the other day, and I haven't heard anything about it since, outside of this forum. And it has a grand total of one thread that's about a page long. On an NBA-centered forum.