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Inside Game is a 2019 American sports drama written by Andy Callahan and directed by Randall Batinkoff and starring Scott Wolf, Eric Mabius, Will Sasso, and Lindsey Morgan. This film is based on the 2007 NBA betting scandal and centers on Tommy Martino (Wolf) and his two friends NBA referee Tim Donaghy (Mabius) and bookie Baba Battista (Sasso). [1]
Before Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Finals, Donaghy claimed that referees would be instructed to extend the series for financial reasons. [79] However, the series ended in Game 5 with the Golden State Warriors defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 4–1. On November 1, 2019, the movie Inside Game was released in theaters. The official film description ...
Prominent critics such as Tom Haberstroh and Bill Simmons noted this was largely Donaghy's longstanding debunked version of events and pointed out the aspects of the program which were disproven with evidence (e.g., Donaghy claims of threats and the role of organized crime, sociology of the scandal) years before "Untold' Operation Flagrant Foul" was produced, calling other aspects of the ...
Former NBA ref Tim Donaghy, at the heart of the basketball league's notorious betting scandal, says legal sports gambling comes with great dangers.
Tim Donaghy. 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.
Ahmad Rashad and Willow Bay helped co-host “NBA Inside Stuff,” a groundbreaking show that capitalized on the merging of sports and pop culture before social media was born.
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 ...
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