Donaghy was part of a crew working the Heat-Knicks game in New York in February when the Knicks shot 39 free throws to the Heat's eight, technical fouls were called on Heat coach Pat Riley and assistant Ron Rothstein, and the Knicks won by six. New York was favored by 4½.as being particularly badly referee-ed and I mentioned to a couple of friends that I thought point-shaving was going on. And watching sports shows, the subject never came up even though I thought some games just cried out for closer examination.
NBA officials always stress that each game is watched afterwards by all the refs & critiqued for bad calls and rules interpretations. I would be very surprised if Donaghy was the only rotten apple in this motley crew of refs who to me often seem determined to get key players [especially Shaq] in foul trouble which greatly alters the whole course of a given game. That happens so often, with such spurious calls, that Stern should go deeper into the farce that is NBA reffing.
I still want to know why the Spurs beat the Suns because of the Spurs flagrant foul and subsequent sidelineing of two Suns who left the bench. Stern was oh so indignant and holier than thou. I want to see this PR jerk actually do his job in searching out ref betting and point-shaving/game-throwing.
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