What you fail to understand is that it's near impossible for a revelation that he's lying. Donaghy says "they told us to do this". Another ref or league executive says "No they/we didn't." How do you prove who's telling the truth? This is useless drivel from an interested party until it's somehow corroborated. Holla at me then.
You really came in up here acting all self-righteous, asking for an apology, over the ramblings of a felon? For real?
A Felon has nothing to lose so he's going to let it out and most likely tell the truth. Just because a person is a felon doesn't mean they always lie, that's what you don't understand.
Like I said, you and a host of others don't want to accept that he's telling the truth and has no reason to lie now. As for the other officials/executive? You expect them to tell the truth to the media? You expect them to say "Yeah, we did it as well." Look at how long Pete Rose denied he betted on baseball before he finally told the truth.
Source: Wikipedia/Yahoo Sports News
Handicapper Brandon Lang told ESPN that it is fairly easy for a crooked sports official to fix a game, despite Stern's insistence that Donaghy was a "rogue official". According to Lang, an official can directly influence the outcome of a game 75 percent of the time if he has money on the game. For instance, Lang said that a crooked NBA referee can fix the total score by calling enough fouls to get both teams in the bonus. When a game is being fixed, Lang said, the officials should be the prime suspects because the players are making too much money to risk their future. Lang also believed a bookie connected to the mob turned Donaghy in to the FBI.[22] On June 10th, 2008, it was confirmed that Donaghy was responsible for the awful officiating in the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Lakers. In game 6 of that series, the Kings were called for a blistering 27 fouls in the fourth quarter while the Lakers for only 9. The Lakers went on to win game 6 and eventually the series in seven games. The game has been referred to as a fixed game but never confirmed until Donaghy admitted to investigators 6 years after. He says that the NBA wanted to the series to go to 7 games due to the fact that it would hurt ticket sales and tv ratings.
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.
The document does not name the teams. The Nets were in that playoff series, losing the championship finals to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Donaghy also claimed a supervising referee told refs that an unidentified NBA executive did not want them to call technical fouls on star players or boot them from the game.
Donaghy told feds the league reprimanded a referee who disobeyed that edict in January 2000 and ejected an unnamed star player from a game in the first quarter.
Lawyer John Lauro filed the four-page letter to Federal Judge Carol Amon because none of the information was included in the government’s letter to the judge seeking leniency for Donaghy when he is sentenced next month.
Lauro has gone to war against Brooklyn federal prosecutors for offering plea deals to Donaghy's betting accomplices that give them less time than the disgraced ref, despite his extensive cooperation.
Donaghy claims referees have accepted autographs, free merchandise and meals from team coaches and managers. He told probers one referee used a team's practice facility to exercise and another played tennis with an NBA coach.
"These activities were against NBA rules, indeed, such inappropriate relationships could influence the outcome of games," Lauro wrote.
Lauro said he withheld the names of the teams, referees and league officials because the feds may still investigate the allegations
i should have know you were going to say that. Untill they have proof LS than what he said is bs to me
