Jul
14
Facing up to 33 months in prison for taking cash from gamblers during the 2006-2007 season, disgraced ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy is in the news yet again for disturbing reasons that surely have league commissioner David Stern ready to start spinning – literally and figuratively — again.
Earlier today, Fox News detailed court records and phone documents that it obtained which show that Donaghy placed 134 calls to current official Scott Foster — who officiated the first game of this year’s NBA Finals — at a time when Donaghy was known to have been passing on tips to gamblers.
For some perspective, Donaghy made no more than 13 calls to any other official during that time period, according to Fox News. Donaghy is also known to have made approximately 150 calls at the time in question to Thomas Martino, a reported middleman between the former referee and bookie James Battista.
Both Martino and Battista will be sentenced on July 24th for pleading guilty to defrauding the NBA.
Whether the number of phone calls between Donaghy and Foster are coincidence or rather an indication of something shady that was going on between the two, especially giving where they fall in the Donaghy timeline, the fact remains that such information doesn’t help Stern fight the NBA’s image of a conspiracy league which pushes certain teams to win, as has been indicated by the desperate Donaghy.
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