David Stern has seen college basketball and German soccer overcome point-shaving scandals. He never imagined his own league would be thrown into one.The NBA commissioner blamed “rogue, isolated criminal” Tim Donaghy for that, creating a betting scandal that has devastated the league and threatened the credibility of every referee.
“My reaction was, I can’t believe it’s happening to us,” the commissioner said Tuesday.
Today those other sports remain popular, and Stern thinks the NBA will also eventually recover from the “most serious situation and worst situation that I have ever experienced either as a fan of the NBA, a lawyer for the NBA or a commissioner of the NBA.”
