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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. In July 2007, reports of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were ...
Position. NBA referee. Officiating career. 1994–2007. Timothy Francis Donaghy (/ ˈdɒnəɡi /; 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]
Racial and cultural issues. Since the late 1990s, the NBA has been criticized for embracing hip hop culture. [1] While some observers have argued that this criticism has more to do with race than hip hop itself, [2] it is a fact that the league is connected to hip hop culture. Rappers Nelly and Jay-Z had ownership stakes in NBA teams (the ...
Mihalak’s career wasn’t without controversy. His most notable blemish was off the court, not on it. Mihalak was one of 43 NBA officials involved in Operation Slam Dunk, the nickname for a 1994 ...
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 ...
Each week during the 2023-24 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction.
Scott Foster (basketball) Scott Foster (born April 8, 1967) is an American professional basketball referee for the National Basketball Association (NBA). He began officiating games for the NBA in the 1994–95 season and wears number 48. Nicknamed "Agent 48" and "The Extender" because teams trailing in a playoff series have often won games he ...
1977–2016. Joseph Crawford (born August 30, 1951 in Havertown, Pennsylvania) [1] is an American retired professional basketball referee who worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 1977 and 2016. Crawford, who wore uniform number 17, was regarded as one of the most punitive and controversial officials in the NBA and ...