Ex-referee Tim Donaghy blows whistle on NBA dirty secrets

This reads like a girl magazine article.

"50 ways to make your man find you attractive using hallucinogens."

"What Brit is up to!"

"Lose weight in 3 minutes with a machete!"

"And more!"

 

if all these turn out to be even halfway true, it will open the flood gates. i don't even want to think about what could possibly happen.

just hope the guy is a bum and never tells a single truth.

 

Why even bother naming teams? Just from the description it has to be the Lakers-Kings series, specifically game 6.

 

Here are a few comments from Wilbon and Ralph Nader protesting the game.


http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/BacherNaderNBA.htm

 

Its funny because Adelman would have won a title then, he was coach then right? All there was on the other end was the eastern sacrificial lamb

 

I laughed.

 

celtics-lakers in the finals....enuf said.

 

Yeah, that's the game.

Both Pollard (played 11 minutes) and Divac (played 31 minutes) got 6 fouls and was ejected.

That game's officiating was outrageous. Everyone know the League made sure the series go to 7 games.

BUT, still there are morons here b**** about Adelman and the Kings never got out of the West. Basically, Adelman and the Kings got robbed of their championship.

 

Anyone with even a minimal basketball IQ could tell that Kings-Lakers Game 6 was fixed.

These allegations are shocking but not surprising.


Stern's empire will come crashing down on him soon enough.

 

i still can recall Scott Pollard with both arms up straight and Shaq bumped into him and it's a foul on Pollard. WTF!

 

This is interesting, I wonder why he would let these things out via a lawyer.I don't believe he is a whistle blower and releasing such information would exonerate his wrong doings. What are the motives here? Is it a black mail to the league?

On the other hand, I won't be surprised half of what he said is true. But he doesn't have evidence.

 

That explains a lot. I'm assuming this was in reference to Lakers-Kings Game 6, when the Kings were in control and on the verge of eliminating the Lakers until the Lakers mysteriously were awarded 27 free throws in a single quarter. I'm guessing the "ejection" refers merely to fouling out, in which case it fits -- both Divac and Pollard fouled out in that ridiculous fourth quarter. The Kings, of course, could have wrapped up that series in Game 6 but went on to lose the game and the series.

http://www.nba.com/games/20020531/SACLAL/boxscore.html

 

Well I really hope stern is replaced. Because its really freaking unfair to the fans who pay a lot of money and give up a lot of their time to support their team. I mean we sit there and hope and pray that our team's hard work pays off only to find out everything was fixed? Its unfair on so many levels that I'm speechless.

 

while there is a small group of people believing in conspiracy theories and a large group condemning them for such thinking, one cannot deny that money makes the world go round. as much as we would like the sports industry to be as fair as the sports we play in the parks or on the fields, it just can't be the same. there's a reason why they're called PROFESSIONAL sports. athletes are paid to perform and ultimately stuff the wallets of the powers that be. everyone but league execs are played as pawns in the ultimate chess game. they prey on our naive psyche that yearns for everything to be pure and just, and much of us believe it or want to believe it. and for those who do not, there's nothing they can do about it for the simple reason because we lack proof and power.

people will bring up the spurs as their main example to try dispel conspiracy theories, but have they ever thought that the league is doing that for that simple reason: to make it seem like there's nothing illegal going on?

as for the lakers celtics series, expect it to go to 6 or 7 games...probably 7.

it's ironic how professional sports patronizes the world of sports entertainment most specifically the wwe when the line differentiating them is becoming more and more vague.

 

you know.. this makes you wonder if the chicago bulls by any chance ...................... the lo.t.ry....... oh nvm.

i never liked stern. and if this is true, it just makes my hate grow bigger because now... he is a hypocryte. so much for that "wonderful" image crap.

 

To me, it seems simple enough. He got caught, but if he rolls over on other officials who did things far worse, things could get better for him.

WORD.

Where are all those people now who called people who saw what happened in game 6 "sissy whiners" and whatnot? And who said this was all "ridiculous conspiracy theory?"

Gee, looks like it was allllllll true. All of it.

Any SHRED of doubt I may have had in my mind that Dick Bavetta is Stern's #1 "Mr. Fix-It" is now gone.

Bavetta and Stern should both be dragged out and shot.

 

This only confirms (under oath ?) what everyone has known for a long time -- about all sports really.

FYI ~ some boxing matches may be fixed...

 

Stern should have stepped down for this or should have been forced to step down. You can't tell me he didn't know shady stuff was going in the Rockets/Mavs series as well as many others over the years. He made things worse by imposing these ridiculous fines on people who commented on things that were clearly evident to even the most casual fan. He made good, honest people out to be liars and whiners by fining them and then questioning their integrity through the media.

I certainly wasn't happy when this scandal broke but it did feel good to know that Stern's arrogance and, in my opinion, dishonesty had come back to bite him. I only wish the media and those burned by him would step up again and remind everyone about the way they were forced to cooperate or be run out of the league by the good Dictator.

The fact that he still has his job is a testament to how screwed up the league still is.

 

I always defended Stern. Donaghy was never his fault. I was certain it happened in every sport to some extent. That there was no real way Stern could have honestly policed it.

But now this? Word coming from the league itself at times?

Its over now.