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Tim Donaghy brings out the very worst in NBA fans and needs to be ignored

In some ways, the Tim Donaghy scandal didn't seem to get the attention it deserved.

The dude used his job as an NBA referee to make money for himself and bookies alike, and he want to jail for it. Eventually, he tried to take down the league itself with a series of (semi-believable) claims that playoff games were incorrectly officiated for the sole purpose of extending series.

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A Congressman called it "one of the most damaging scandals in the history of American sports." It didn't turn out that way, though, and, most of all, it went down nine years ago.