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How is this guy still a referee in the NBA?
He was best friends with Tim Donaghy, if you don't know who that is he was the NBA ref that deliberately fixed and bet on NBA games and served 15 months in prison for it. From October 2006 to April 2007 Donaghy made 126 called to his booke and 136 calls to his BFF Scott Foster.
Who cares? They were best friends and wanted to talk?
How about this..........
The point I'm trying to make is that this guy is a dirty little squirrel ref, and he's still in the league fixing games.
He was best friends with Tim Donaghy, if you don't know who that is he was the NBA ref that deliberately fixed and bet on NBA games and served 15 months in prison for it. From October 2006 to April 2007 Donaghy made 126 called to his booke and 136 calls to his BFF Scott Foster.
Donaghy’s phone records for one of those days, Dec. 30, obtained by Fox News, reveal the following:
— 10:34 a.m. – Donaghy calls Foster.
— 10:35 a.m. – Donaghy calls another referee.
— 10:36 a.m. – Donaghy calls Martino, the “middleman” between him and his bookie.
— 10:39 a.m. – Donaghy calls Foster.
— 5:15 p.m. – Donaghy calls Martino.
— 5:23 p.m. – Donaghy calls Martino.
Who cares? They were best friends and wanted to talk?
How about this..........
During the 2006-07 period under investigation, seven games refereed by Scott Foster had lopsided enough betting on one team to move the point spread by at least 2 points; those seven teams were undefeated against Vegas – meaning that the big-money gamblers won a 7 of 7 times on Foster's games; the odds of that happening randomly are less than 1%.
Statistics alone cannot convict, but it's certainly noteworthy that seven times in Foster's games one team was bet extremely heavily, and all seven times that team won," said RJ Bell of Pregame.com.
Two of those seven games stand out:
On January 19, 2007 the Kings opened as a 1.5 favorites at Boston; betting on Sacramento moved the line to -4.5. Kings won by 5, shooting 25 free throws, versus only 14 free throws for the home team Celtics. On March 20, 2007 the Nuggets opened as 2.5 point underdogs at New Jersey. Denver was bet so heavily, they closed as 1 point favorites. Denver won by 4, shooting 32 free throws versus only 22 for the home team Nets.
The point I'm trying to make is that this guy is a dirty little squirrel ref, and he's still in the league fixing games.