Disgraced NBA Ref and degenerate gambler Tim Donaghy is set to be released from prison next week due to health issues stemming from the fact that he keeps getting beaten up by mobsters who don’t like snitches and cheats.
Donaghy’s release date has recently been in question due to concerns about his medical condition. Donaghy was injured during an assault in November of 2008. During the assault, another inmate claiming ties to the New York mob beat Donaghy with a heavy object. Donaghy suffered severe knee and leg injuries that will require surgery.
Donaghy, as you’ll undoubtedly remember, was the NBA official who rigged numerous games throughout his illustrious career as the only NBA official who got caught doing what everyone else knows they’re doing.
As a lifelong Phoenix Suns fan I find this matter to be awesome and truly worthy of a leaked prison tape. I hope it occurred in a laundry room or the mess hall or somewhere with a lot of surveillence cameras so they can show it from a lot of different angles. Seriously, watch this video and pretend the team getting screwed is your favorite team in the whole world. Oh, and try to remember that this is Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals and not just some conference game in December.
How would you not want that guy to get sodomized in prison after watching that clip? I’m sure Kings fans are just as pleased with his poor health as Suns fans are considering that crooked NBA referees cost them the 2002 title.
I wonder what Tim’s plans are now that he’s finally getting out of prison after ten whole months.
His future plans include re-uniting with his four daughters, obtaining employment, participating in treatment for his addiction to gambling, and finishing a memoir of his 13 years in the NBA.
I hope that memoir will cover all the legal bills he’s going to rack up in Arizona (and probably California) since his Federal plea deal doesn’t prevent individual States from going after him for his crimes. Arizona’s got a lawsuit just waiting for him to get out of prison. I know that sounds petty but I really hate this guy and the reason for that is he’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Listen, NBA Officating is the worst of all the major sports. It’s inconsistent, it favors star players and home teams and it rewards flopping. Conventional wisdom states that football is the best run sport with regard to officiating and I can’t say I disagree. They were the first to utilize instant replay and they did so in a manner that made sense and didn’t slow down the game too much. The referees in football also seem to lack the ego that is so pervasive in the NBA (and to a lesser extent, baseball).
And for all the talk about the cheating that goes on in baseball, at least it’s on the individual level and not to such an extent that Bud Selig is rigging the World Series (or else we never would have seen the Phillies and Rays in last year’s World Series, am I right?) The NBA on the other hand, can’t go a game without there being questions surrounding the refs.
So thanks again, Inmate #R392F1. Thank you for breaking Donaghy’s kneecap. Thanks for repeatedly hitting him with a heavy object, be it a trash can, a metal pipe, or one of Donaghy’s own arms. Thank you. I hope you dropped a load in his washing machine* overnight too. And, once again, if the prison does have a video available of him getting his ass kicked, I really would love a copy for myself and my wife. She hates Donaghy more than I do, you see, because basketball is the one sport she actually likes watching. Oh, funny story. When she learned that Donaghy had potentially cheated the Suns out of a shot at a championship, she asked if they were going to negate the Spurs championship (she hates the Spurs almost as much as I hate the Yankees). I told her the league would do no such thing. So she asked, “Then what’s the point?” I couldn’t answer her because there are no do overs in sports. Which is why I’m so happy Tim Donaghy’s all fucked up now.
*May or may not be a euphemism.
Hef, for some reason I see this in the forseeable future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-msMdyuBQI&feature=related
wow…and i thought i was the asshole here.
Major League Jerk: Promoting prison rape since mid-2009.
How about all officiating sucks balls?
I have this theory that people that want to be refs (any sport) were just picked on in high school, kinda like cops.
But it doesn’t. At all.
Clarence, I think you are on to something, especially the cops part.
Hef, you really think NFL officiating is good?
I think it is
/high 5’s Ed Hochuli
I think, accepting that some calls are going to be wrong, NFL officiating is nowhere near as bad as NBA officiating.
Agreed, but not exactly a ringing endorsement.
There are going to be mistakes, but this guy willfully fucked my shit up. This is why I’m glad he got raped in prison.
More difficult being a NFL ref too. Much more going on and you’re a lot further from the action
You high 5 Hochuli, you lose an arm.
personally…i do.
the NFL actually reviews referee performance. i think NFL refs aggregate, had a 97% success rate, and if something gets fucked up, the head of officiating, mike perreria (spelling?) publicly addresses the issue instead of letting it stew in the court of public opinion.
plus, it’s much harder to officiate in the NFL than it is in the NBA. at least with teh current 3 ref system the NBA uses with guys past their physical and ocular primes forced to run up and down the court for 48 minutes and judge guys who can make split second movements faster than any other group of humans on earth in a free flowing game with rare stoppages.
all this happened after donaghy jumped on tony woperelli’s couch and said “fuck your couch woperelli!”
It’s Dona-HEE you black Irish bastard!
i defeated my own argument…
what i was TRYING to say was that the NBA is handicapping themselves and it SHOULD be easier if they got refs who could actually do their jobs.
Or guys that weren’t yes men to the league.
Spencer, I was going to jump on you for that but I realized what you meant.