Every media outlet in the sports world is reporting today that the FBI is investigating a NBA referee who for the past two years has bet on games, has made calls to shave points in those games and who has helped determine the results of those games. In other words, he has fixed NBA games. The name of the ref has not been released.
The NBA has seen its rise to the third most popular professional sport behind only football and baseball. The league has made rich men out of its owners and many of its millioniare players. They only recently signed a new longterm agreement with ABC. Now this.
Nothing can destroy a sport as fast as allegations that games are fixed. This could be the biggest scandal to ever hit the NBA and one of the biggest to hit any American sports league in many decades.
I am sure that every serious NBA fan can point to a game or two in which a refs call cost them the game. We may soon find out that the conspiracy nuts were not so crazy after all.
The NBA has seen its rise to the third most popular professional sport behind only football and baseball. The league has made rich men out of its owners and many of its millioniare players. They only recently signed a new longterm agreement with ABC. Now this.
Nothing can destroy a sport as fast as allegations that games are fixed. This could be the biggest scandal to ever hit the NBA and one of the biggest to hit any American sports league in many decades.
I am sure that every serious NBA fan can point to a game or two in which a refs call cost them the game. We may soon find out that the conspiracy nuts were not so crazy after all.