jammin' jamey
10-30-2007, 11:06 AM
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The NBA regular season begins tonight. Does anyone really care? This is kinda similar to the NHL thread, except the TV ratings aren't as bad - yet.
Kobe...The new-look C's...San Antonio, the dynasty no one has ever heard off...King James...
Sounds exciting huh?
Get this, found this today...
The NBA begins its season this week under a cloud bigger than any since 1980, when the Los Angeles Times opined that 75 percent of the league's players had experimented with cocaine. This season brings the bookends of Tim Donaghy's disgrace and Madison Square Garden's shame. Donaghy, a referee for 13 seasons until he resigned this summer, confessed in July to providing inside information about officiating crews to mobsters, and the NBA discovered it knew next to nothing about how much gambling had infiltrated its ranks, not to mention that its background checks were useless. Cablevision, the parent company of the New York Knicks, insisted against all common sense to go ahead with a civil trial brought by a former high-ranking female employee instead of writing an admittedly sizable check to make her go away. The resulting trial was an embarrassment, with team employees, including coach Isiah Thomas, disclosing sexual and racial epithets hurled around the Garden on a seemingly daily basis. Then there was the team intern, detailing sexual romps in the backseat of star guard Stephon Marbury's SUV. Stern insists that Donaghy was a rogue. But an internal review found that about half of the league's 56 referees had engaged in some sort of small-level gambling during the past few years -- lotteries, betting pools and the like.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2007/10/30/nba_overview30.ART_ART_10-30-07_C1_4U8AQ72.html?sid=101
The NBA regular season begins tonight. Does anyone really care? This is kinda similar to the NHL thread, except the TV ratings aren't as bad - yet.
Kobe...The new-look C's...San Antonio, the dynasty no one has ever heard off...King James...
Sounds exciting huh?
Get this, found this today...
The NBA begins its season this week under a cloud bigger than any since 1980, when the Los Angeles Times opined that 75 percent of the league's players had experimented with cocaine. This season brings the bookends of Tim Donaghy's disgrace and Madison Square Garden's shame. Donaghy, a referee for 13 seasons until he resigned this summer, confessed in July to providing inside information about officiating crews to mobsters, and the NBA discovered it knew next to nothing about how much gambling had infiltrated its ranks, not to mention that its background checks were useless. Cablevision, the parent company of the New York Knicks, insisted against all common sense to go ahead with a civil trial brought by a former high-ranking female employee instead of writing an admittedly sizable check to make her go away. The resulting trial was an embarrassment, with team employees, including coach Isiah Thomas, disclosing sexual and racial epithets hurled around the Garden on a seemingly daily basis. Then there was the team intern, detailing sexual romps in the backseat of star guard Stephon Marbury's SUV. Stern insists that Donaghy was a rogue. But an internal review found that about half of the league's 56 referees had engaged in some sort of small-level gambling during the past few years -- lotteries, betting pools and the like.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2007/10/30/nba_overview30.ART_ART_10-30-07_C1_4U8AQ72.html?sid=101