I'm pretty sure those other teams involved are doing their due diligence in all of this. I don't know what the current procedures are with who is in there actually overseeing the process but for those 14 lottery teams that have MILLIONS of dollars on the line, I can safely assume that they have a little more insight to the process than we do. The risks of fukking up the draft process is so huge. Like I said, there would be a huge blackmail opportunity for the teams that are in on it and they could all end up in jail.
Tim and the corrupt refs is another issue entirely. If refs want to read between the lines and give a little boost to one of the big market teams, that's on them. If the refs that do a good job of calling it that way have a higher probability of getting playoff assignments in the future, they'll act accordingly. That's what Donaghy alluded to and I don't really doubt that it happened. What I disagree with is the bullshyt people bring up that when Durant doesn't get a call late in a game, that Stern actively made a call for it. It doesn't work that way. These refs aren't getting letterheads from the league office telling them to make sure one team wins. That's their own call and I'm sure Vegas is a MUCH bigger influence than David Stern and the tv executives anyway.
