Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't buy this Tim Donaghy scandal as that big of a deal. Of course I don't think officials should be betting on NBA games that they participate in, but at the same time I've come to accept that gambling is part of professional sports. Just like I've come to accept that many of my favorite athletes probably used steroids and that Covell Crisp changed his name to Coco to get ladies.
It's not that the whole thing doesn't bother me, but I was much more outraged by having to watch the Spurs and Cavs in the NBA finals. Stern will announce some new policy in the next couple of weeks and we won't hear about gambling in the NBA for a while, but it will still be there. It will ALWAYS be there. Hopefully the NBA will spend just as much time on things that can be fixed, like competitive balance and playoff reseeding.
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