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Timothy Francis Donaghy (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə ɡ i / DON-ə-ghee; born January 7, 1967) [2] is an American 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]
Tim Donaghy. 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.
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 ...
Former NBA ref Tim Donaghy, at the heart of the basketball league's notorious betting scandal, says legal sports gambling comes with great dangers.
Longtime NBA referee Tim Donaghy was the central figure in the biggest money scandal in NBA history. ... Donaghy resigned in 2007 — it later came out that he’d been gambling on NBA games since ...
NBA players, coaches, referees and other team personnel are prohibited from betting on any of the league’s games or on events such as draft picks. In banning Porter, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver ...
In the book, Donaghy describes his time as a referee in the CBA and NBA, discussing the NBA's inner workings, refereeing bias, TV media markets, owners in the NBA, marriage and divorce, NBA "scandals" (NBA favoring big-market teams, manipulating playoffs to extend to Game 7, star player privileges and so forth), his time in jail, court process ...
"Operation Flagrant Foul" tells story of the 2007 gambling scandal involving former NBA referee Tim Donaghy that threatened the league's integrity.