What’s wrong with me?
July 25, 2007 by Mike Olbinski
So this Tim Donaghy stuff is outrageous. The fact that someone could do this kind of thing and get away with it in a league so full of scrutiny and security is amazing.
It’s also so unsurprising and unshocking that I really uncare.
I mean, I should get upset about this right? Is something wrong with me? I even re-watched the video a few posts below of Game 3 and while it got me all upset about the RESULTS, I didn’t feel the immense hatred against Donaghy that one would expect.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a Suns fan my whole life, and more recently, a Cardinals fan. There has been so much disappointment in my life when it comes to these two teams, that nothing fazes me anymore. Dan Bickley said it beautifully this morning when he went over all the bad luck the Suns have ever had. It’s just par for the course.
We knew we got jobbed in the playoffs this year, but we got mad and moved on. Suspensions, bad calls, whatever. We’ll deal with it. Same old, same old.
And now this happens. This crooked excuse for a ref was the one who put Ginobili on the line for no reason and Amare on the bench in the first quarter.
Yet it doesn’t upset me. It just goes to show what we knew all along. If anything, it saddens me that this is happening. It’s also a good feeling to know the rest of the sports world, who wrote over and over about how the Suns got hosed, are backing us up once again, asking David Stern about Game 3.
The only thing I wish for this is that something big would happen in the NBA. Like Stern retiring and Jerry Colangelo taking over, or Mark Cuban. Heck, Bill Simmons might do a great job…I love that guy. Someone with a forward thinking. The league needs a shot of adrenaline.
But other than that, life goes on. We still haven’t won a championship and and no corrupt referee’s guilt over fixing games will ever change that.
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I was going to write about this. I just couldn’t because just thinking about this happening is just infuriating. It’s the same with me…it comes as no surprise so I just don’t care all that much anymore, but finding about it happening just hurts and it comes right after most fans have been able to forget and move on. I’ve been saying there’s something wrong the last two years…I mean, if you saw the Suns-Lakers series, Mavs-Spurs, Mavs-Heat, Suns-Spurs and others you can figure out there must be something but to actually know that a ref was trying to make the team lose the game…it sucks. That’s now two out of the six games in a huge series that were taken somewhat out of the players hands. Then you know that the Mavs probably won’t lose in the first round again and with the loss of Kurt Thomas it feels like our best chance in a long time was taken away. It’s just so sickening that the NBA, the league that reviews all the calls, has let this happen.
i feel sorry for the ref in a sense. to be so addicted to gambling that you would end up hooking up with ANY level of mobsters is pretty sad. i feel for his wife and children who are and will continue to feel the hatred and threats from all sides.
You are so right Faithful…this is the mob he’s dealing with…not even just hatred and threats, but if he talks, who knows if he’ll be killed over this or what. It’s really sad.
Mike, you are too forgiving. I’m still too angry to forgive yet.
I think anger and sadness all make sense. To me the bigger issue is the legitimacy of the NBA as a whole and are there other dirty refs? We all know the old expression ‘where there’s one rat there’s more’. So how many more are out there and can the NBA weed them out. Something that seems doubtful given that Donahey was out there quite a while. which brings me back to my earlier point; is the NBA even legitimate? I think not. I think the Spurs had the championship handed to them, they didn’t win anything. And if the game is or could be fixed why should we bother tuning in or buying tickets.
I love the Suns, but it’s going to be hard to get excited about the NBA next yr.
Scott, I was there with you until you questioned the legitimacy of the NBA and that you think the Spurs had the championship handed to them. How ignorant can you get? You obviously weren’t watching the play.
Spurs get little respect as it is from the NBA, despite having won 4 Championships, and sore loser fans like you add to it. The fact is, none of what Tim Donaghy did was game deciding. Yes it was crooked, but then again, how many times have you watched a game and seen bad calls? It is, fortunately, or unfortunately, a part of the game. Even as professional as the refs are, they are still human,(remember the saying “to err is human”) and last I heard, a “perfect” human still doesn’t exist. If you can’t handle that fact, then you should give up watching any sport at all, because the same kinds of “mistakes” happen in all sports. I don’t think you can name one sport that couldn’t be “fixed”. Be realistic.
Please…Donaghy putting Amare on the bench in the first quarter and thus in foul trouble the whole game is a pretty “deciding” factor.