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The Mavericks Eric Dampier was ejected in an overtime game last night against the Rockets after officials reviewed a flagrant foul called on Aaron Brooks. After 8 minutes, they tossed Dampier because it was his second technical in the game, and the Mavs went on to lose without their starting center. But the NBA rulebook [...]

CBS dedicated 40 minutes on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes news magazine to the Tim Donaghy interview. Donaghy has just been released from prison and now faces a life with no money, no family and handful of mobsters tracking him. But the interview was intriguing because of the way Donaghy described the fraternity of NBA officials [...]

Disney CEO Robert Iger: David, what the f***? You promised me 6 games!
NBA Commissioner David Stern: Oh not this again. I told you rigging NBA series isn’t as easy as it used to be. Plus, if you watched game 4 you’d notice we did just about everything we could, if the Magic could make a [...]

The Orlando Magic didn’t help themselves tonight in Game 4 of the NBA Finals (they missed like 15 free throws, including 2 by Dwight Howard with 0:10 to play and a three point lead), but they didn’t catch any break from the officials. I counted 2 muggings on Howard in OT that went uncalled and [...]

Tonight’s game NBA Finals Game 2 featured real NBA drama down the stretch, but with about 3 minutes to go with the Magic either up by 2 or with the game tied, the officials began calling a different game. After letting them play for most of the 3rd & 4th quarter and both teams in [...]

When you have a foul to give and you’re up by two, the last thing you do is let a good shooter get off a three point shot. The fans, the owners, the coaches and the players know this. More importantly, the officials know this. In fact, the league has come up with rules designed [...]