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流言板]火箭沉冤得雪，湖人的冠军要打上星号？ 由 eva6 发表在HoopChina·篮球场 http://nba.hoopchina.com
2005年季后赛首轮火箭对小牛的系列赛中，范甘迪(Jeff Van Gundy)曾说有裁判告诉他当值的裁判们对姚明进行了特别关注。如今范甘迪或许终于可以扬眉吐气了。
在由代表前裁判多纳希(Tim Donaghy)的律师寄出的一封信中，范甘迪的论述得到了证实。另外其中还表明，裁判参与操纵了2002年湖人对国王的第六战的比赛结果。
7月14日多纳希赌博一案即将宣判，他的律师团现在也正在尽量以如此的形式表明其同法庭合作的态度。
在湖人同凯尔特人的总决赛第三战开始前，NBA总裁斯特恩对多纳希的指控加以否认。
“显然随着宣判日期的临近，他们只是在试图最后一搏，他提到的那些东西都早已经被提交给了联邦法庭和FBI，并接受了严格的调查。”
多纳希的这封信中还提到裁判操纵和影响了2005年季后赛中的一个系列赛的结果，从其中描述的情况来看这指的应该就是火箭对小牛的系列赛。
“某队C输掉了前两场比赛，然后某队C的老板向联盟抱怨裁判的执法，”信中说，“某队C的老板指责裁判对某队D的某球员的非法掩护视而不见。NBA官员Y对负责监督裁判的官员Z指示说让裁判在接下来的比赛中严格吹判某队D的那名球员。Z向裁判转达了这一指示，作为参与执法第三战的裁判之一，多纳希也收到了这一指示。”
小牛老板库班在那个系列赛球队输掉前两场后曾公开抱怨裁判的表现，然后小牛最终以4-3淘汰火箭。范甘迪当时说一名在职的裁判透露给他说了联盟的这一计划。范甘迪最终被罚款10万美元。多纳希的这封信中提到官员Z后来和某队D的教练进行了接触。
在那个系列赛中姚明场均4.4次犯规，不过他只有在第一场6犯毕业。
这封信中还表明，有两名资深裁判设法将2002年季后赛的一个系列赛拖到第七战。某队E本有机会在第六战结束系列赛，但他们的两名球员6犯下场，结果输掉了那场比赛，并最终输掉了那个系列赛。
而2002年季后赛只有一个系列赛打到了第七场：湖人对国王。
第六战中，湖人40罚34中，国王25罚18中。单是在第四节，湖人就拿到了27次罚球机会，并命中21球，而国王这一节9罚7中。在湖人106-102拿下本场之后，国王主帅阿德尔曼(Rick Adelman)表达了对裁判的不满。
“我们的大个子总共有20次犯规，而他(Shaquille O'Neal)只有4次？你倒是来给我说说这是什么比赛，”阿德尔曼说，“显然裁判的吹罚令他们看到了希望看到的比赛。”
湖人最终赢得了2002年的冠军。
多纳希还指控说球队的官员要求联盟不要吹太多明星球员的犯规或者将它们罚下。联盟官员对裁判说，这样做的话会“影响球票销量和电视收视率”。
信中说，一名裁判在2000年的一场比赛的第一节将一名明星球员驱逐出场，事后私下里他被联盟进行了批评。
多纳希的律师团周二拒绝对此信件作出评论。如果罪名成立，多纳希可能面临最多33个月的牢狱之灾。
以下为这封信的原稿电子版：
http://assets.espn.go.com/media/pdf/080610/donaghy03.pdf
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2002 Lakers-Kings Game 6 at heart of Donaghy allegations
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
(Archive)
LOS ANGELES -- Was Game 3 of the 2008 NBA Finals held at the scene of a crime?
Disgraced ex-referee Tim Donaghy alleged as much Tuesday in a filing made by his attorney in U.S. District Court in New York, saying the highly controversial Game 6 of the Lakers-Kings playoff series in 2002 was impacted by the actions of two of the three referees who worked the game.
NBA commissioner David Stern vehemently denied the allegations, saying they are the desperate act of a convicted felon. He also disclosed that the league has already briefed members of the U.S. Congress on certain facets of the Donaghy investigation.
"We welcome scrutiny here. This is something that should be scrutinized," said Stern, who called Donaghy a "singing, cooperating witness" and repeatedly referred to him as a felon as he spoke with reporters for more than eight minutes near the loading dock of the Staples Center as he arrived for Game 3 of the Finals.
The allegations are some of the strongest ever made against the NBA, coming at a time when the officiating of this year's Finals between the Celtics and Lakers has come under heavy scrutiny.
In the letter submitted by Donaghy's attorney, the following "manipulation" is alleged:
"Referees A, F and G were officiating a playoff series between Teams 5 and 6 in May of 2002. It was the sixth game of a seven-game series, and a Team 5 victory that night would have ended the series. However, Tim learned from Referee A that Referees A and F wanted to extend the series to seven games. Tim knew referees A and F to be "company men," always acting in the interest of the NBA, and that night, it was in the NBA's interest to add another game to the series. Referees A and F heavily favored Team 6. Personal fouls [resulting in obviously injured players] were ignored even when they occurred in full view of the referees. Conversely, the referees called made-up fouls on Team 5 in order to give additional free throw opportunities for Team 6. Their foul-calling also led to the ejection of two Team 5 players. The referees' favoring of Team 6 led to that team's victory that night, and Team 6 came back from behind to win that series."
Although no teams are specifically named, it is not hard to deduce the game in question. The Lakers-Kings series was the only one that postseason that went seven games, and the officiating in Game 6 was so questionable that consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader called for a formal investigation.
The Lakers attempted 40 free throws to the Kings' 25 in that game, and Los Angeles made 21-of-27 from the line while Sacramento converted 7-of-9 in the fourth quarter alone.
In addition, a foul was called against Mike Bibby of the Kings after he was shoved and elbowed by Kobe Bryant, denying the Kings an opportunity to try for a tying basket. Also in that game, Kings centers Vlade Divac and Scot Pollard fouled out, and Kings coach Rick Adelman was highly critical of the officiating afterward.
"My first thought [upon hearing Donaghy's allegation] was: I knew it," Pollard said Tuesday night. "I'm not going to say there was a conspiracy. I just think something wasn't right. It was unfair. We didn't have a chance to win that game."
The Lakers went on to win the 2002 NBA championship.
The letter apparently comes in response to the NBA's claim that Donaghy pay $1 million in restitution to cover the cost of the league's private investigation. Donaghy's legal team is trying to demonstrate his cooperation with a federal government investigation before he is sentenced on July 14 on felony charges of taking cash payoffs from gamblers and betting on games himself.
The document referenced other alleged improprieties that Donaghy disclosed to federal law enforcement officials. Among them:
• "Tim gave information on how top executives of the NBA sought to manipulate games using referees to boost ticket sales and television ratings," the letter reads. "He also described how nepotism played a far greater role than qualifications in a number of referee hirings."
• "Tim explained the league officials would tell referees that they should withhold calling technical fouls on certain star players because doing so would hurt ticket sales and television ratings," the letter adds. "As an example, Tim explained how there were times when a referee supervisor would tell referees that NBA Executive X did not want them to call technical fouls on star players or remove them from the game. In January 2000, Referee D went against these instructions and elected a star player in the first quarter of the game. Referee D later was privately reprimanded by the league for that ejection."
• In addition to game-altering allegations, Donaghy's letter claims that many officials carry on "relationships" with team executives, coaches and players that violate their NBA contracts. For example, it said, referees broke NBA rules by hitting up players for autographs, socializing with coaches and accepting meals and merchandise from teams.
"Tim described one referee's use of a team's practice facility to exercise and another's frequent tennis matches with a team's coach," the letter says.
• The letter also alleges that during a 2005 Rockets-Mavericks playoff series, "Team 3 lost the first two games in the series and Team 3's Owner complained to NBA officials. Team 3's Owner alleged that referees were letting a Team 4 player get away with illegal screens. NBA Executive Y told Referee Supervisor Z that the referees for that game were to enforce the screening rules strictly against that Team 4 player. Referee Supervisor Z informed the referees about his instructions. As an alternate referee for that game, Tim also received these instructions."
Mavs owner Mark Cuban did in fact complain after his team lost the first two games of the series, and Dallas went on to beat Houston in seven games. Jeff Van Gundy, then the coach of the Rockets, said that a working referee had told him about the league's plan to closely monitor moving screens by Yao Ming, and Van Gundy was ultimately fined $100,000 for his comments regarding the situation.
During halftime of the Lakers-Celtics game on Tuesday, Van Gundy, a commentator for the game, said that while he still thinks Yao was unfairly targeted, he does not lend any credibility to what Donaghy has to say.
Stern said he had not yet read the letter filed on Donaghy's behalf, but that portions of it had been read to him.
"My reaction to Donaghy's lawyer are that clearly as the date of sentencing gets closer, and the things that he's thrown against the wall haven't stuck, he's rehashing a variety of things that have been given to the U.S. Attorney and the FBI, fully investigated, and are baseless," Stern said. "We have been asked to cooperate for the last year by providing people and answering questions, and we've done that. And our understanding is that the investigation is just about wrapped up waiting for the sentencing of Mr. Donaghy, and as he continues desperately to somehow get out of the fact that he is subject to a longer sentence possibly than his co-conspirators, there are this continuing flow of allegations from, don't forget, an admitted felon. So they're baseless."
Also Tuesday, Lakers coach Phil Jackson was asked about the allegations regarding Game 6 of the 2002 series against Sacramento.
"Was that after the fifth game, after we had the game stolen away from us after a bad call out of bounds and gave the ball back to Sacramento and they made a 3-point shot?" he said. "There's a lot of things going on in these games and they're suspicious, but I don't want to throw it back to there."
Jackson also was asked if he agreed with the notion that there were officials that were "NBA company men" who were doing this for the sake of ratings.
"Only us basketball coaches think that," Jackson said. "Nobody else can go to that extreme. They referee what they see in front of them. You know, a lot of things have happened in the course of the Tim Donaghy disposition. I think we have to weigh it as it comes out, and we all think that probably referees should be under a separate entity than the NBA entirely. I mean, that's what we'd like to see probably in the NBA. It would just be separate and apart from it. But I don't think that's going to happen."
Lamell McMorris, head of the NBA referees union, also issued a statement:
"Tim Donaghy has had honesty and credibility issues from the get-go," the statement reads. "He is a convicted felon who has not yet been sentenced for the criminal conduct he has already admitted to. He may be willing to say anything to help his cause and he may believe these most recent allegations will help his agenda. I'm not aware of any improper conduct by any current NBA referee in the playoffs six years ago or any conspiracy by the NBA to affect the outcome of any game then or now. Frankly we're tired of Tim Donaghy's cat and mouse games."
Donaghy's letter said that in the first of several meetings with prosecutors and the FBI in New York in 2007, he named names. He faces up to 33 months in prison.
Donaghy's attorney and federal prosecutors declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Chris Sheridan covers the NBA for ESPN Insider. To e-mail Chris, click here. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. |
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