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u know when the refs were all reinstated in that betting scandal, did they all took paycuts? or were the unions to strong for stern to handle???
Whistling His Own Tune
Joey Crawford Sounds Off on 35 Years as an N.B.A. Referee
Crawford did not hesitate when asked if he had any regrets. There are two, he said. The first is regarding his actions that led to a guilty plea of falsely stating income in 1998 after an I.R.S. investigation into several referees’ pocketing cash from downgraded airline tickets. The second is an incident in 2007 in which Crawford and the San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan had an on-court verbal altercation. Duncan said Crawford challenged him to a fight.
The tax thing, I was petrified, to be honest with you. It was the worst. If they wanted to scare you, they did. If that’s what they wanted to do, they did. They did it. I was so grateful to get the chance to come back.
The Duncan thing probably changed my life. It was just — you come to the realization that maybe the way you’ve been doing things is not the proper way and you have to regroup, not only on the court but off the court.
I had seen a sports psychologist before that. But after, I saw him a lot more. His name is Joel Fish. He’s worked with a lot of athletes. It gave me a new perspective.
In both instances, Crawford’s career was in doubt. He resigned after his guilty plea and was sentenced to six months of house arrest and three years’ probation. He was reinstated in 1999, however, and did not miss any games because of the league’s lockout. After the Duncan episode, Commissioner David Stern suspended Crawford, ending a streak of 21 consecutive years in which Crawford officiated in the finals, but reinstated him that fall.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/sp...pagewanted=all
This is only the part with Duncan. The whole thing is a pretty good read. He once gave a T so hard he broke his finger...LOL
u know when the refs were all reinstated in that betting scandal, did they all took paycuts? or were the unions to strong for stern to handle???
It's easy to see how grateful this clown is to Stern.
I'll believe the NBA is not "maneuvered" when Joey Crawford is not around anymore.
Maybe.
But without refs being bought how would the Lakers ever win?
Yet he ed it up in 2008 with the Barry non call against the Lakers among other funny games against us. you Joey
Either A or B.
A) He is enough of a man for admitting his mistakes and learning from them and seeking therapy to evolve.
B) He is just laying down the proper groundwork before really ing the Spurs in these years playoffs.
I'm as fond of redemption stories as the next guy, but having watched Joey in the last five years allow hatchet jobs on Tim, only to turn around and call touch fouls on him, I don't believe a word of it. Nice press release, though, Joey.
Joey Crawford.
Joey's a changed man.
Just like Ron Artest.
yo regrets clown
I don't know about you guys but every time Crawford is refeering a spurs game I feel we are going to lose that game
He is a good ref but should NOT have been allowed back after the Duncan incident. He came into that game looking for an altercation with Tim and took the first chance to act on it...
Good article, thanks for the link.
These articles are so well written compared to what "we" normally have put before us. I hate writing, always have, as I totally suck. So as a person who sucks so profoundly, I feel eminently qualified to judge. Good stuff.
B for sure is exactly my first thought when reading his crap statement.
So that stupid people can say that he didn't screw us because "remember he said he regretted it"... Idiots.
You gotta give him credit for working on his stuff via counseling.
give him credit? Like you'd give a crack head credit for only spending money they worked for at a legit job on more crack as opposed to spending money they stole from their mom and dad? Screw that.
acting like the refs didn't cheat for the Spurs
Great.
Now he will officiate more Spurs games
Just ing great
I'm not a huge Crawford hater. He's along with dan Crawford and mcutchen are the only competent refs left. He's shown true contrition and he's obviously working on his problems. Props to him for owning up to it.
Why? People who really need (and benefit) from counseling rarely wear it on their sleeves.
People who have something practical to gain from letting peple know they are in counseling love to show it off like a new Mercedes.
It's like celebrity rehab. Those who make a public specatacle of themselves (but have a career to rescue) can blame it all on some mental instability that they are bravely battling.
Having a knucklehead like Ron Artest gush after the NBA Finals about how his psychiatrist has transformed him simply cheapens the good work done by countless doctors and their patients every day. And when the NBA endorses such treacle by naming Artest Citizen of the Year, it just cheapens the NBA.
Crawford is no better. He just wants to keep working, that's all. He'll revert to his old "demons" (a word people like him love to use) the minute it suits him -- probably in a game seven of the NBA Finals involving the Spurs.
I don't think I've ever known a more blind brown noser as yourself who is so full of nothing as far as having any knowledge or even being able to have a backbone to not have to ride some authority nut sac, ever. Seriously.
It's probably a required item on his return to reffing list, like probation for a convict.
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