ESPN - NBA has no quick fix for Donaghy's fixing charges - NBA
ESPN - NBA has no quick fix for Donaghy's fixing charges - NBA: "It doesn't matter how many times David Stern squares his feet and starts launching his go-to denials.
It doesn't matter how often the NBA's commissioner sternly assures us the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI soon will reveal findings that show Tim Donaghy, without doubt, is the 'only one here that's guilty of criminal activity.'
It probably won't even matter now if The Rogue Ref, as Stern famously dubbed him, is proven conclusively to be just what The Commish says he is."
As the famous movie (to me) said it best: '...it came from outside high walls and fancy gates; it comes from a place you know about maybe from the movies. But I come from out there, and everybody out there knows, everybody lies: cops lie, newspapers lie, parent's lyin'. The one thing you can count on - word on the street... yeah, that's solid.' And Mr. Stern the word on the street: the NBA is fixed.
You need to fix that. The game is too beautiful for it to be ruined by that.
It doesn't matter how often the NBA's commissioner sternly assures us the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI soon will reveal findings that show Tim Donaghy, without doubt, is the 'only one here that's guilty of criminal activity.'
It probably won't even matter now if The Rogue Ref, as Stern famously dubbed him, is proven conclusively to be just what The Commish says he is."
As the famous movie (to me) said it best: '...it came from outside high walls and fancy gates; it comes from a place you know about maybe from the movies. But I come from out there, and everybody out there knows, everybody lies: cops lie, newspapers lie, parent's lyin'. The one thing you can count on - word on the street... yeah, that's solid.' And Mr. Stern the word on the street: the NBA is fixed.
You need to fix that. The game is too beautiful for it to be ruined by that.
