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Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy speaking to Colin Cowherd Wednesday afternoon made a shocking claim that all refs gamble.
"One-hundred percent," Donaghy said without hesitation, when asked what percentage gamble.
When Cowherd repeated the number, Donaghy didn't hesitate.
"Absolutely (it's 100 percent). When I was there, (and) David Stern did his investigation, he said 'Legal gambling will cost you your job, illegal gambling will cost you your freedom. Then they did an investigation and found out that 58 out of the 60 referees gambled in some way, shape or form. And they changed the rules. Now basically they're allowed to gamble."
But gamble on the NBA?
"No, I can't say that I know for a fact. But I do think when you're at a party and you're discussing the NBA, you're always going to have that guy that comes up to you and is going to try and come up to you and pump you for information on, you know, 'who is going to win a series,' or 'who, the league wants to crack down in certain situations.' There's always information that that gambler wants to extract from that official."
Donaghy spent 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to two charges of betting on games in which he refereed.
- Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com
