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    Report: NBA ref probed for fixing games

    FEDS PROBING REF IN MAFIA BET SCAM

    July 20, 2007 -- THE FBI is investigating an NBA referee who allegedly was betting on basketball games - including ones he was officiating during the past two seasons - as part of an organized-crime probe in the Big Apple, The Post has learned.

    The investigation, which began more than a year ago, is zeroing in on blockbuster allegations that the referee was making calls that affected the point spread to guarantee that he - and the hoods who had their hooks in him - cashed in on large bets.

    Federal agents are set to arrest the referee and a cadre of mobsters and their associates who lined their pockets, sources said.

    "These are dangerous people [the referee] was involved with," a source said.

    One source close to the probe counted the number of games on which the ref and his wiseguy buddies scored windfalls in the "double digits."

    NBA Commissioner David Stern is aware of the investigation and has a report about the referee on his desk, another source said.

    The official, whose name was withheld, allegedly wagered on games during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 NBA seasons.

    James Margolin, an FBI spokesman, declined comment on the latest black eye for professional sports.

    The sources indicated the referee apparently had a gambling problem, slipped into debt and fell prey to mob thugs.

    "That's how he got himself into this predicament" by wagering with mob-connected bookies, one source said.

    Professional basketball has remained largely unscathed by allegations of game-fixing, although college basketball has been rocked by several scandals involving point-shaving by players, but not officials.

    One of the most recent was a Boston College point-shaving scam arranged in the 1980s by mobster Henry Hill, who bribed several players. Hill later became a government informant, and his life was depicted in the movie "GoodFellas."

    Having a referee in their pockets provides a two-fold bonanza to game fixers.

    Gamblers would be able to directly cash in by betting on games where they knew the point spread was compromised.

    But having a ref in their pocket could prove even more lucrative to crooks in a bookmaking syndicate.

    Bookmakers hope to encourage an equal amount of betting on each team and make their money on the "vigorish," which is typically 10 percent of a losing bet.

    But armed with the inside information, the bookmaking syndicate could set an artificial point spread that would encourage large "layoff" bets from other bookies carrying too much action on one team, that were likely now to lose.

    An FBI organized-crime squad in the bureau's flagship New York office is handling the case, but the referee traveled the country officiating various games on which he allegedly bet.

    It was not determined which games were allegedly affected by the referee's actions, or how much money may have been won by him and his cohorts.

    The FBI got wind of the scheme while conducting a separate mob investigation.

    The most prominent American sport- gambling scandal in recent history involved Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose, who was banned from baseball in 1989 for betting on his own team.

    Based largely on testimony of two Rose associates, Ron Peters and Paul Janszen, Major League Baseball determined that from 1985 through 1987, Rose bet on baseball, including 52 Reds games in 1987, at a minimum of $10,000 a game.

    All of Rose's bets on Cincinnati were to win.
    "The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.

  • #2
    I think I was on the wrong side of a couple of those games LOL. Doesnt surprise me at all.


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    • #3
      This is just another reason why I never bet NBA....

      Biggest joke of a sports league I have ever seen IMO....

      I wont even get into more detail....
      SOBER SINCE MARCH 28TH OF 2007!!!

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      • #4
        Just saw this post.. I just made one about this same thing.. IMO this has Joey Crawford written all over it.. He is always qiuick to throw a technical foul and remember when he threw Duncan out of the game in the playoffs this past year for no reason at all..

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        • #5
          This is bad for the NBA. Do you know how many people already thought the NBA was fixed? I was one of them, I couldn't believe some of the calls I saw, but in the back of my mind, I always thought, it's not fixed, I'm just biased, the refs are doing the best they can. Now this comes out, and I'm like shit, it all makes sense.

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          • #6
            I said many years ago that ref's are the ones who fix these games. Money is the root to all evil and always will.
            Just ask Vick.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Chado1
              This is just another reason why I never bet NBA....

              Biggest joke of a sports league I have ever seen IMO....

              I wont even get into more detail....
              I agree ,,, Never did like it ... Even in the Michael Jordon days here in Chicago ...

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              • #8
                Figures, a league of thugs. Doesnt suprise me that the refs are crooks.

                This is gonna seriously damage the NBA
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                • #9
                  My guesses in order of likelihood as to who the crooked ref is:

                  1. Joey Crawford.
                  2. Jess Kersey
                  3. Eddie Rush
                  4. Tommy Nunez
                  5. Jim Capers

                  I figure it's Crawford because it would explain why he'd lose his cool so badly (he was losing a bet maybe) but here's a fascinating stat:

                  Last season the road team was a shocking 42-18 ATS in games Jess Kersey worked!!

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                  • #10
                    A website whose name I can't post here keeps stats on all refs and many are very lopsided on totals and some on either favoring or opposing the home team

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                    • #11
                      I think think this is just the tip of the iceberg-I would bet anything that some of the NBA players conspire at times also to control pointspread or total outcome which is not always based on financial considerations for them anyways(talking about ego and power).

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by jcindaville
                        Figures, a league of thugs. Doesnt suprise me that the refs are crooks.

                        This is gonna seriously damage the NBA
                        Yea still cant believe that people watch this garbage league...I almost never do...only if I am forced or nothing else is on but even then.....
                        SOBER SINCE MARCH 28TH OF 2007!!!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by griswold
                          Last season the road team was a shocking 42-18 ATS in games Jess Kersey worked!!
                          LMFAO....yea that makes sense....fuckin joke of a league....
                          SOBER SINCE MARCH 28TH OF 2007!!!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by savage1
                            I think think this is just the tip of the iceberg-I would bet anything that some of the NBA players conspire at times also to control pointspread or total outcome which is not always based on financial considerations for them anyways(talking about ego and power).
                            Or they got a homie back in the ghetto who they stay in contact with who says he just put a big bet on them and to try and back door the +14 if they are gonna lose anyway or visa versa...LMAO...wouldnt be surprised....
                            SOBER SINCE MARCH 28TH OF 2007!!!

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                            • #15
                              savage1

                              Originally posted by savage1
                              I think think this is just the tip of the iceberg-I would bet anything that some of the NBA players conspire at times also to control pointspread or total outcome which is not always based on financial considerations for them anyways(talking about ego and power).
                              I may not agree with you some times savage, but I like the way you worded this statement....I agree......It was, and is, just a matter of time.....kapt


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