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The 2007 NBA betting scandal was a scandal involving the National Basketball Association (NBA) and accusations that an NBA referee used his knowledge of relationships between referees, coaches, players and owners to bet on professional basketball games.
Timothy Francis Donaghy (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə ɡ i /; born January 7, 1967) [2] is a former professional basketball referee who worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons from 1994 to 2007 until he was caught in a gambling scandal. [3] During his career in the NBA, Donaghy officiated in 772 regular season games and 26 playoff ...
In the book, Donaghy describes his time as a referee in the CBA and NBA, discussing the NBA's inner workings, refereeing bias, TV media markets, owners in the NBA, marriage and divorce, NBA "scandals" (NBA favoring big-market teams, manipulating playoffs to extend to Game 7, star player privileges and so forth), his time in jail, court process ...
Some players and coaches felt the game was improved by their absence. [2] [3] The NBA responded by hiring replacement referees from the Eastern Basketball League and elsewhere. [3] Costing only $300 per game, plus a $40 per diem, the NBA made do with scabs until their inferior officiating caused complaints from players and fans. The NBA agreed ...
From 1965 to 1969 Crawford attended Cardinal O'Hara High School, the same high school as fellow NBA referees Mike Callahan, Ed Malloy, and Tim Donaghy. He married Mary Crawford in 1971 and had three children and ten grandchildren. [16] Crawford's son-in-law, Chris Day, is the former head women's basketball coach at Vermont. [17]
During a 2005 playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy was fined a record amount for a coach, $100,000, for asserting that he had a source within the league who informed him that the referees were being instructed to call more fouls on Yao Ming, due to protests by Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
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Ronnie Nunn (born in Brooklyn, New York) [1] is a former professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nineteen seasons and served for five years as the league's Director of Officials, [2] until being reassigned in 2008 in the wake of the Tim Donaghy scandal.