OT-Tim Donaghy opens "Pandora's Box."

100 fold

This is not news to me. Anyone who knows the history of the NBA/ABA understands the underhandedness that has been a part of the game since the very beginning. Back room deals, gambling, cocaine (now weed), terrible contracts, etc...

It's actually all a large reason why I love the NBA. It's far more player driven than any of the other major sports, and it provides for some rather wacky and unique characters that I love to watch.

Ron Artest
Donald Sterling
Chris Andersen
Ron Harper (he can't fucking read! where else do you get that?)
Dennis Rodman
Chuck
Oak
MJ
Latrell Sprewell
Starbury
Allen Houston and Penny Hardaway's corpses
Kobe-Shaq-Phil
Vinsanity (Oh help I've been shot!)
Zach Randoplh- see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2fn01cngg
Ruben Patterson
Eddie Griffin
Andrei Kirilenko (and his wife's crazy, you can sleep with whoever you want on your birthday present she gives him every year)
Pau and Marc Gasol's facial expressions
And stuff like this...

The NBA. Where amazing happens...and Mark Blount is gets paid over $7 million to look bored on the bench during TWolves games.

Deadspin published excerpts of the book after the NBA killed the first attempt to publish it. There's some pretty ridiculous stuff in there.

The Heat vs. Mavs Final was laughable a few years back. Also the Pistons vs. LeGlobal Icon series a few years back stands out as being a little fishy.

Unfortunately I dont think that this interview will help make Officiating more transparent. All it does is bring into question the actions of just about every official regardless of sport. I agree that officiating in all sports needs to be more transparent but this is not the way to make that happen.

The Suns-Spurs series sticks in my mind. How the hell do you suspend players for stepping 2 feet onto the court?

I never really watched the NBA. I just didnt like it that much. However i absolutely love College Basketball but for some reason i just cant watch the NBA

anyone thats ever watched six nba games and not suspected anything is a moron.

m.o.r.o.n. moron.

any time oney is involved, especially money of this magnitude, expect some of this to happen - i played in the mac and i know for a fact some guys that played fb at our school gambled like mad men...on their own games, not sure?

NBA is a complete joke. Officiating is wretched and unbearable. Anytime the supposed superstars drive to the hole, they get bailed out with a foul while the big men can beat each other up with no whistle blown. Even the gameplay is boring. All the game has become is pick and roll or one on one. Nothing enjoyable about that. I've only enjoyed Pistons games and that's just because they're the team I root for.

Even though I root for the Pistons, I think the NBA sucks now. Ever since the MJ's, Bird, Zeke, Chuck and the rest of the old guard left, the game is now relegated to spoiled pretty boy primadonnas. Can't even play tough defense with today's pussified rules. Besides Shaq and Howard, the big men are pussies. Lebron and D-Wade and the like would NOT be taking it to the rack like that against the likes of Sir Charles, Oak Tree, Karl Malone,or Kevin Duckworth (RIP). Yeah they would have earned a trip to the charity stripe, but after a hard foul and a taste of the hardwood, they would think twice about going to the hole.