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Timothy Francis Donaghy (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə ɡ i /; born January 7, 1967) [2] is a disgraced 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 ...
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.
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.
Before his career in the NBA, Foster worked as a referee for two years in the Continental Basketball Association and had officiated college and high school basketball games. In his second season of officiating NBA games, Foster was assigned to his first nationally televised game, an April 1996 match between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns .
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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 ...
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 ...
Tony Brothers (born September 14, 1964) is an American professional basketball referee who works in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has been a referee in the NBA since the 1994–95 season. [1] Now in his 31st year, Brothers has officiated 1,800 regular season games, 200 playoff games and 17 NBA Finals games. [2] He officiated the ...