Former NBA Referee Tim Donaghy Puts Pressure on NBA
by Administrator on Dec.07, 2009, under Basketball
One particular anecdote, which is recounted by Donaghy roughly midway through the clip below, tells of the time Allen Iverson, then with the Nuggets, drew the ire of the entire referee corps by threatening an official.
The league fined Iverson $25,000, but officials, Donaghy says, didn’t think that was enough of a punishment. So they doled out their own sentence, and explicitly conspired before a Jazz-Nuggets game to give A.I. some tough love with the whistle.
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December 7th, 2009 on 4:27 pm
I always had a thought that some NBA games were fixed in the past and is still happening. Example: I thought the Lakers-Rockets series in the 2008-2009 postseason was fixed. Think about the unfair ejection of Ron Artest,Another unfair ejection of Tim Duncan a couple of years back in the playoffs all by the same referee named Joey Crawford.
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