Shady NBA Ref Tim Donaghy’s 60 Minutes Interview

Anyone who has ever played sports knows that for the most part, refs are full of shit. Society attempts to act like people such as refs, judges and probation officers are of the highest character, and that they don’t have any biases. All we have to say to that is negro please. Case in point, former NBA ref Tim Donaghy, who served time for betting on games based on insider information that he received through the zebra’s inner circle. Even though the Donaghy situation has given the League a black eye, that continues to linger like cigarette smoke, it has done some positive in revealing that the National Basketball Association is essentially just a few notches above the WWE.

Donaghy has been telling anybody who will listen for a while now that most NBA refs are shadier than WC, and in case you didn’t know, Willie Calhoun is the shadiest one. Even though he bet on games that he actually officiated, Donaghy maintains that he didn’t fix those games. He also could beyond-accurately predict the outcome of games he wasn’t working, based on who was officiating and what players that said officials had biases towards. The FBI claims that Donaghy had about a 75% success rate, which by most accounts is unfathomable.

Donaghy’s revelation really isn’t that big of a shock, it’s only natural that a ref would be salty or hold a grudge with certain players, based on the extreme amount of verbal abuse that they experience on any given night. We can pretend like they are robots, but the reality is that they are similar to a sensitive thug and dealing with so much verbal abuse on a near daily basis during the season definitely impairs their ability to call a clean game.