PLACE AN ASTERISK IN THE 2002 RECORDS BOOK FOR THE FINALS!

I've had the day from hell. I have been unable to really put my day together. I don't really know how to keep enduring this hell of a day. If it wasn't one thing it was another. I'm seriously considering the alternative to become a lipstick lesbian so I don't have to deal with men.....who am I kidding. I'll minor in it but i'll never go pro. I love boys too much. Then my friend called me to get my thoughts on the whole Tim Donaghy thing and then I was livid. I just had to write down my thoughts. Here it goes.
So for those living under a rock, a bomb was dropped on the NBA by Tim Donaghy, the shamed former NBA referee told authorities in a four-page letter released Tuesday that two officials conspired to fix the outcome of a 2002 playoff series. Court documents filed by Donaghy's lawyer detailed the "inner-workings" of a plot in which top league executives used referees to manipulate the games and it was their “duty” to extend a playoff series in 2002 to a seventh game. In that series the Lakers trailed the Kings three games to two. Then
*The 2002 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers had 7-players on the court in Game #6 in addition from other gives from the refs (and no whistles were blown).
With these allegations (we’ve known all along something in the milk was not been clean) Tim Donaghy didn’t mention which series in 2002 was fixed, but the Lakers-Kings Western Conference finals was the only series that fits his allegations. The question shouldn’t be, “Do we believe this guy” but “How far back does the NBA Commission go and to that which I have a fair answer….every game since then. Donaghy also claims that he was told that the shady refs were acting in the interest of the NBA to conspire to extend the playoff series in 2002 and influenced several other post- and regular-season games.
Game 6 refs were Dick Bavetta, Ted Bernhardt, Bob Delaney and the he fix was in and in my opinion the integrity of the game has been compromised in every game these refs have been involved in. Did you know that Delaney was a ref in Game 2 of this finals series right? I’m not sure if any of those refs are still scheduled to official any of the games left in this years Finals. You better believe the next couple of games in the Finals are going to be looked over beyond microscopic levels. The heat is on the refs now to officiate a perfect game with no blurred calls.
Granted this is all on the word of a convicted felon who is trying to get less time (he is being sentenced next month), and there is no proof (yet, that we know off) this shouldn’t hold the George Bush of the commission, David Stern, from assisting in a federal investigation. I’m pretty certain that Stern and his buddies have shredded every piece of evidence. So then Congress should investigate this shitstorm which I’m sure with the microscope that this is under now in a couple of years it will make the MLB Steroid-Gate look like child’s play.
I contacted Chris Webber (who could have been an NBA Champion if it weren’t for this fuck up) for a word on this and of course there was “Absolutely no comment regarding Game 6 of the 2002 Finals”. I tried but we may have some more news from us on Webber in the near future.
The NBA has become an ignominy because of all these controversies, allegations and duplicitous corruption. The NBA has an ugly situation on their hands that will only get worse. The NBA commission needs to grab their sacks and buck up and work with the feds on their investigation. And strap on the lie detectors to Donaghy, Delaney and Bavetta and let's get this taken care of ASAP.
Of course Game 6 was rigged! The refs weren’t calling fouls (resulting injured players) on Lakers while the Kings were being fouled out of their strongest defenders. Kings coach Rick Adelman said after that game, "Our big guys get 20 fouls tonight and Shaq gets four? You tell me how the game went. It's just the way it is. Obviously, they got the game called the way they wanted to get it called”. The Lakers were getting owned that whole series, they had to cheat to help them. People who don't believe that game was fixed are the same people that thought OJ was framed.





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