NBA: Tim Donaghy: How Refs Rig the NBA

[HarlemHeat37]

It's possible to alter point spread results without "rigging" the win or loss outcome of the game, tbh..

Have you guys ever bet on the NBA?..NBA point spreads often come down to the wire in blowout games, tbh..all it takes is a scrub stat-padding and shooting a 3, or a ref calling a loose ball touch foul with the other team in the bonus, and the margin of victory will be 6, rather than 7, which affects the spread, but doesn't actually affect the outcome of the game..

I believe there are shady incidents involving refs affecting point spreads and over/unders, tbh, but there is no way to actually "rig" a professional sports league in America and stupidly taking the risk of killing your league, tbh..

As Dok said, Donaghy just uses notorious games that were poorly officiated and pretends like he has inside information..I respect his grind, tbh..

[LarryDavid]

Yes he did. It was not his imagination. The director and writer of the story said in an interview,"If there is one regret I have with the story is not making it any clearer to people that he actually killed those people and it wasn't his imagination. The point of the film being that we are so materialistic as people that we lose touch of whats happening right infront of us even when someone admits it."

It's not even a debate if the murders happened or not.

Good . Never read that interview before. I always looked at it the other way.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Yes he did. It was not his imagination. The director and writer of the story said in an interview,"If there is one regret I have with the story is not making it any clearer to people that he actually killed those people and it wasn't his imagination. The point of the film being that we are so materialistic as people that we lose touch of whats happening right infront of us even when someone admits it."

It's not even a debate if the murders happened or not.

It's a total strawman (and a horrible one for that matter) to act like anyone is denying the fact Donaghy personally rigged games by comparing him to some guy who admitted to committing murder (and nothing beyond that).

Do you really think you're going somewhere by comparing the admission of a murder by someone who's saying he personally did it to the allegation of a widespread conspiracy by someone who's accusing countless people other than himself of being a part of it? Are you incapable of seeing why that's re ed?

Once again since you dodging the question is funny, what is Donaghy saying that's truth, and what's he saying that's BS? Be specific.

[HarlemHeat37]

And "superstar calls" are synonymous with "reputation calls"..

Kobe, Durant, Wade, etc get calls because of their reputations..when they miss a shot badly, you assume they were fouled some of the time, because they usually make those shots..basketball is a difficult sport to officiate, sometimes you need to apply reputation calls..

The "superstar calls" argument is one of the worst examples of bias from fans, though..do you guys realize that there have been many teams without superstars that have benefited from "reputation calls" that were even more advantageous than the calls that "superstars" get, tbh?..

The Indiana Pacers and Memphis Grizzlies, for example..these teams would be ed if refs didn't allow them to play physical, aggressive ball without getting whistles, out of "reputation"..

Same for the Pistons of the 2000s, same with Thibodeau's Bulls, etc..

[Thebesteva]

Good . Never read that interview before. I always looked at it the other way.

Agreed. I assumed the same as you, that he was imaging things and it was symbolism about a man who wants out of his boring dull life. However, when I researched if he killed people or not I actually found 1000's of fans of the movie showing the link to that interview. They said its not even a debate if he killed them, it's more of a flaw by the writers to not make it more obvious.