Ex-referee Tim Donaghy blows whistle on NBA dirty secrets

[nyk orange and blue]

Originally Posted by Burn916

Lakers and Kings 2002 WCF game 6...just said it on sportscenter.


Is anybody surprised by that?


* Robert Horry game winner was game 4 I believe

I had a feeling this was going to be mentioned, I remember reading what Kings Fans had to say on Niketalk during that series

 

[joe mcknight is ballin]

wheres the kings fans? time for you guys to come out of hibernation.

 

[japanair21]

They're saying it was game 6 of the NBA WCF in 2002

 

[scienz of life]

I just hate how everybody in the media acts like the league hasn't been fixing games. Like it's no possibility.

David Stern/Sportscenter always saying such claims are "erroneous"

 

[kn0wledgeable]

i mean is anyone honestly surprised?

funny how sportscenter its just donaghy talking rubbish and the league really isnt fixed. the league is still fixed to this day and it ReALLY shows in theseplayoffs. But what do you really expect? the league is a business and they are beginning to get greedy just like every other big business out there

 

[henz0]

I knew I wasnt crazy thinking it was fixed for the Lakers

 

[pkballr]

Hibernation? Been here forever my good sir.

*********

 

[japanair21]

[h1]Sacramento Kings 102, Los Angeles Lakers 106[/h1]
[h2]Sacramento Kings (3-3)[/h2]Glossary / Convert to CSV / Convert to PRE / Click column headers to sort

Chris Webber	47	12	22	.545	0	0		2	5	.400	4	9	13	8	1	0	3	5	26
Mike Bibby	41	7	20	.350	2	6	.333	7	8	.875	1	3	4	3	2	0	2	1	23
Doug Christie	41	2	6	.333	1	3	.333	0	0		3	4	7	5	2	2	0	3	5
Vlade Divac	31	5	16	.313	1	2	.500	1	1	1.000	3	9	12	3	1	1	1	6	12
Hedo Turkoglu	29	3	9	.333	1	3	.333	5	6	.833	0	2	2	0	1	0	1	4	12
Peja Stojakovic	19	4	8	.500	1	3	.333	1	3	.333	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	10
Bobby Jackson	15	4	7	.571	2	2	1.000	0	0		0	2	2	3	1	0	1	2	10
Scot Pollard	11	1	4	.250	0	0		0	0		2	1	3	0	1	0	1	6	2
Lawrence Funderburke	6	0	0		0	0		2	2	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Team Totals	240	38	92	.413	8	19	.421	18	25	.720	14	30	44	23	9	3	10	31	102

[th=""]Starters[/th] [th=""]MP[/th] [th=""]FG[/th] [th=""]FGA[/th] [th=""]FG%[/th] [th=""]3P[/th] [th=""]3PA[/th] [th=""]3P%[/th] [th=""]FT[/th] [th=""]FTA[/th] [th=""]FT%[/th] [th=""]ORB[/th] [th=""]DRB[/th] [th=""]TRB[/th] [th=""]AST[/th] [th=""]STL[/th] [th=""]BLK[/th] [th=""]TOV[/th] [th=""]PF[/th] [th=""]PTS[/th] [th=""]Reserves[/th] [th=""]MP[/th] [th=""]FG[/th] [th=""]FGA[/th] [th=""]FG%[/th] [th=""]3P[/th] [th=""]3PA[/th] [th=""]3P%[/th] [th=""]FT[/th] [th=""]FTA[/th] [th=""]FT%[/th] [th=""]ORB[/th] [th=""]DRB[/th] [th=""]TRB[/th] [th=""]AST[/th] [th=""]STL[/th] [th=""]BLK[/th] [th=""]TOV[/th] [th=""]PF[/th] [th=""]PTS[/th]

[h2]Los Angeles Lakers (3-3)[/h2]Glossary / Convert to CSV / Convert to PRE / Click column headers to sort

Shaquille O'Neal	44	14	25	.560	0	0		13	17	.765	2	15	17	1	0	2	6	4	41
Kobe Bryant	44	10	20	.500	0	0		11	11	1.000	2	9	11	5	0	0	1	3	31
Robert Horry	43	2	5	.400	1	4	.250	3	4	.750	0	4	4	5	1	1	2	2	8
Rick Fox	37	3	7	.429	1	4	.250	4	4	1.000	0	3	3	2	1	0	3	4	11
Derek Fisher	20	2	5	.400	1	3	.333	0	0		0	2	2	2	1	0	0	5	5
Brian Shaw	21	2	5	.400	0	2	.000	0	0		1	2	3	2	0	1	1	0	4
Lindsey Hunter	11	1	4	.250	1	2	.500	0	0		0	0	0	3	0	0	1	1	3
Devean George	11	0	1	.000	0	0		1	2	.500	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	1
Stanislav Medvedenko	5	0	1	.000	0	0		0	0		0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0
Samaki Walker	4	0	1	.000	0	0		2	2	1.000	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	2
Team Totals	240	34	74	.459	4	15	.267	34	40	.850	6	39	45	20	3	6	14	24	106

[th=""]Starters[/th] [th=""]MP[/th] [th=""]FG[/th] [th=""]FGA[/th] [th=""]FG%[/th] [th=""]3P[/th] [th=""]3PA[/th] [th=""]3P%[/th] [th=""]FT[/th] [th=""]FTA[/th] [th=""]FT%[/th] [th=""]ORB[/th] [th=""]DRB[/th] [th=""]TRB[/th] [th=""]AST[/th] [th=""]STL[/th] [th=""]BLK[/th] [th=""]TOV[/th] [th=""]PF[/th] [th=""]PTS[/th] [th=""]Reserves[/th] [th=""]MP[/th] [th=""]FG[/th] [th=""]FGA[/th] [th=""]FG%[/th] [th=""]3P[/th] [th=""]3PA[/th] [th=""]3P%[/th] [th=""]FT[/th] [th=""]FTA[/th] [th=""]FT%[/th] [th=""]ORB[/th] [th=""]DRB[/th] [th=""]TRB[/th] [th=""]AST[/th] [th=""]STL[/th] [th=""]BLK[/th] [th=""]TOV[/th] [th=""]PF[/th] [th=""]PTS[/th]

If the Kings would have won game 6 or 7, then they would have went to the Finals.

 

[MVP]

I have that game on tape, I pretty much figured thst game was fishy; oh well I'm starting to believe that Noble Kane might be right, especially afterthat game 2 fiasco.

 

[joe mcknight is ballin]

lets be honest. the nba fixed it for the kings in game 5 when shaq got one ft and fouled out in 32 min. lakers got game 6 and game 7 was the one game that wasofficiated correctly since the nba got what it wanted with the series going 7 games.

 

[banks2pierce]

The league is stupid if they do fix games. The league doesn't need to be fixed to be entertaining.

 

[DYNAMICS]

Kings fans must be mad....

This is terrible.

 

[theone2401]

Thanks for confirming what I already believed to be true.

SMH

 

[bangtcg]

Originally Posted by Banks2Pierce

The league is stupid if they do fix games. The league doesn't need to be fixed to be entertaining.

you are a boston fan.. your road to the championship has * writtenall over it. sad, first the patriots now the celtics. can't wait to see what is up with the red socks.

 

[scuse7]

Yea gettin yours this series. Hows it feel ?

NBA is a joke. I was hoping this wasn't too prevalent, but now....

 

[acidicality]

Shaq was 13/17

 

[japanair21]

I don't want to bring out the 06 Finals stats..

 

[MVP]

Originally Posted by Banks2Pierce

The league is stupid if they do fix games. The league doesn't need to be fixed to be entertaining.

why u complaining your team obviously has benefited from it in the finals

 

[i nasmatic i]

another gem:

Jeff Van Gundy ultimately backed off comments that a referee told him that officials had targeted Yao Ming in the Houston Rockets 2005 first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks. Maybe he was right.
A letter sent to the sentencing court on behalf of convicted former referee Tim Donaghy outlines just such a plan. Donaghy's legal team is trying demonstrate his cooperation with a government investigation before he is sentenced on July 14 on felony charges alleging he took cash payoffs from gamblers and bet on games himself.
In other documents filed with the Brooklyn court, Donaghy's lawyers responded to the NBA's claim that he must pay $1 million in restitution to cover the cost of the league's private investigation.
The letter alleging referees altered games mentions only the year 2005, but the circumstances make it apparent that it is referring to the Rockets-Mavs series.
"Team 3 lost the first two games in the series and Team 3's Owner complained to NBA officials," the letter says. "Team 3's Owner alleged that referees were letting a Team 4 player get away with illegal screens. NBA Executive Y told Referee Supervisor Z that the referees for that game were to enforce the screening rules strictly against that Team 4 player. Referee Supervisor Z informed the referees about his instructions. As an alternate referee for that game, Tim also received these instructions."
Mavs owner Mark Cuban did in fact complain after his team lost the first two games of the series, and Dallas went on to beat Houston in seven games. Van Gundy said that a working referee had told him about the league's plan. Donaghy's letter claims that Supervisor Z contacted the coach. Van Gundy was ultimately fined $100,000.
Looking at box scores from the series, however, the only game in which Yao fouled out was in fact Game 1. He did average 4.4 fouls per game in the series.
The letter also details an incident in the 2002 playoffs in which Donaghy alleges that two referees, who were known as NBA "company men," wanted to extend a series to seven games. "Team 5" could have wrapped up the series in Game 6 but lost two players to ejection, lost that game and ultimately the series.
It is not clear which series this account refers to.
Donaghy also alleges that team executives conspired with the league to prevent star players from being called for too many fouls or being ejected. He claimed that league officials told referees that doing so would "hurt ticket sales and television ratings."
According to the letter, when an official did eject a star player in the first quarter of a game in 2000, he was privately reprimanded.
In addition to game-altering allegations, Donaghy's letter claims that many officialy carry on relationships with team exectutives, coaches and players that violate their NBA contracts.
"Tim described one referee's use of a team's practice facility to exercise and another's frequent tennis matches with a team's coach," the letter states.
The NBA has not commented on Donaghy's allegations. Donaghy's attorney and prosecutors also declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday. Donaghy faces up to 33 months in prison.

i feel so disgusted.

 

[kidskillz858]

Celtics fans are going to be pretty upset the next 3 games when the Lakers go up 3-2 and head back to Boston for games 6 & 7.

 

[inine5]

so they really are the LOS ANGELES FAKERS!!!!

 

[tupac003]

Originally Posted by SCuse7

Yea gettin yours this series. Hows it feel ?

NBA is a joke. I was hoping this wasn't too prevalent, but now....

Seems like it!

 

[berkeley boy]

Yup, that boy Noblekane looking more and more insightful.

 

[kb8sandiego]

Originally Posted by iNiNe5

so they really are the LOS ANGELES FAKERS!!!!

Don't blame the team. Blame the refs.

 

[banks2pierce]

Wait til after game 3 to attack me. Salvatore and Crawford are reffing tonight. I can't be a fan of the game???