Tim Donaghy is launching is book where he tells about days when he rigged NBA games and bet on them. According to a wikipedia article, his profit from betting is somewhere around $30K. In his new book he claims there are more “people” involved in rigging/scamming NBA games.

A sports betting expert, RJ Bell, tracked every game Donaghy worked from 2003 to 2007. He discovered that during the two seasons investigated by the NBA, the teams involved scored more points than expected by the Las Vegas sports books 57 percent of the time. In the previous two seasons, this only happened 44 percent of the time.

According to Bell, the odds of such a discrepancy are 1 in 1,000, and there was “a 99.9 percent chance that these results would not have happened without an outside factor”. He also found 10 straight games in 2007 in which Donaghy worked the game that the point spread moved 1.5 points or more before the tip—an indication that big money had been wagered on the game. The big money won every time—another indication that “something (was) going on” But this “big money” win everytime could be another whole story. (Click read about the best NBA betting system)

While interogated by the FBI, Tim Donaghy confessed that other referees were also fixing the game in Western Conference final between the Lakers and the Kings. Tim said the NBA had wanted to extend the series as long as possible for ticket and tv rights profits. Also the NBA would reprimand referees for calling technical fouls to mega star players.

I guess the NBA doesn’t care about Rasheed Wallace who gets called OT every other time he plays a game.

Do you think there is a scandal going on inside the NBA? Below is the video where Tim Donaghy and crew rigged an NBA game.