Tim Donaghy’s book will shock you

If you’re a NBA fan or if you’re just a fan of scandal, rumors, lying and cheating than you need to do yourself a favor and read some of these excerpts from Tim Donaghy’s unpublished book.

Every fans worst fears about officials fixing games is realized…

To have a little fun at the expense of the worst troublemakers, the referees working the game would sometimes make a modest friendly wager amongst themselves: first ref to give one of the bad boys a technical foul wouldn’t have to tip the ball boy that night. In the NBA, ball boys set up the referees’ locker room and keep it stocked with food and beer for the postgame meal. We usually ran the kid ragged with a variety of personal requests and then slipped him a $20 bill. Technically, the winner of the bet won twice-he didn’t have to pay the kid and he got to call a T on Mr. Foul-Mouthed Big-Shot Du Jour.

After the opening tip, it was hilarious as the three of us immediately focused our full attention on the intended victim, waiting for something, anything, to justify a technical foul. If the guy so much as looked at one of us and mumbled, we rang him up. Later in the referees’ locker room, we would down a couple of brews, eat some chicken wings, and laugh like hell.

See, I used to think Rasheed Wallace was a conspiracy nut and just off his rocker when he thought officials were out to get him. In particular, Sheed once challened Tim Donaghy to a fight outside the Portland locker room years ago.

And even if only a handful of these stories are true, its extremely damning to a league that just turned a blind eye to such strange activities.

While we’re at it Mr. Stern can you look into that phantom foul against Bill Laimbeer in Game 6 of the 1988 NBA finals. I’m still pretty perturbed about that one.

Oh yea, and you rigged the 1985 draft. Stop telling us you didn’t. Come clean.

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