Excerpts from Donaghy's book: Must read for NBA fans - Page 3

Octavian · 11-05-2009, 02:17 PM

The NBA is as crooked as sin... it's been obvious for at least the 15 years that I've personally watched and paid attention. The fact that Stern and the NBA basically sticks its fingers in their ears and spits on Donaghy is pretty telling... they don't even want to touch it because it's so clearly true. The very implication that everything important in the NBA is fixed should crush the sport but people love the league regardless and seem to gloss over the fact that tons of games are fixed.

Just watch Wade, Kobe or Lebron play sometime and watch the calls they get... it's incredible actually that we even needed a guy like Donaghy to blow the whistle on it.

Victor Maitland · 11-05-2009, 03:07 PM

Yes ,good defensive players were punished to benefit "slash straight to the basket and dunk it" players. You dont have to be sherlock holmes to realise that.

snake_vato · 11-05-2009, 04:14 PM

Just disgusting....scum all of them

I always was aware of the Star Treatment, Kobe always gets the calls

Victor Maitland · 11-05-2009, 04:27 PM

The shambolic treatment of good defensive players means that the NBA is a comedy league not worthy of watching.

Timbaland · 11-05-2009, 04:39 PM

Yea I believe in a lot of what he says. Crap like this is why I stopped watching pro basketball.

therealdope · 11-05-2009, 05:11 PM

Someone should sue for fraud and subpoena the refs. I'm done with the NBA.

jrams · 11-05-2009, 05:19 PM

Workers United · 11-05-2009, 10:29 PM

If you have ever watched Lakers' games for any period of time and listened to Chick Hearn, he'd always imply that this was going on.

I remember he'd always say how it was a shame if Magic or one of the stars got early fouls because those are the players "...the fans want to see and pay money to see play."

And every time there'd be a foul on Magic after he had 4 or 5 already, and somebody else was around like Kurt Rambis, Hearn would say straight up, "Foul on the play, they will call it on Rambis" and sure enough they'd call it on Rambis.

This is why Fisher is so valuable to the Lakers. He draws away Kobe's fouls for him all the time and never complains. He's always around the ball and hustling for it, so it isn't a stretch to call fouls on him.

Believe me I've been watching the Lakers for over 20 years.

I admit they get advantages, but or Kobe he's hit and miss. Jordan on the other hand, always and I mean ALWAYS got the calls from all the refs. Kobe has some refs that love him and others that hate him. If you watch closely you can tell.

Also, about the Sacramento series, the Lakers got jobbed the game before. The Portland one was an amazing thing to watch. The Lakers got a lot of calls but they also were on fire from the floor and playing amazing.

sodapopinski · 11-06-2009, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Shazaamurai

I believe every single story that was said in that article

It makes total sense

David Stern can burn in hell for ruining the NBA

I don't know if I believe everything that Donaghy, but David Stern is the NBA's Hitler. Sure, he's expanded the game internationally, but he's also done a LOT of corrupt things over the years and I can't stand the guy.

I stopped watching basketball after Jordan's second comeback. I could not STAND the blatant favortism that he got from the refs. The guy is the greatest player in NBA history, so he didn't need help from the refs... but he got it, and was unstoppable. After that, the NBA became just another good childhood memory for me (I used to love coming home to a Celtics game every Sunday), but not something that I'd watch in the future.

ISWThunder · 11-06-2009, 12:03 PM

The NBA announcers gave out some crazy stat in the playoffs last year about Lebron.

I cant remember it, but he was averaging something like 2 personal fouls per game even though he was driving the paint nearly every play by the end of the playoffs.