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A quick reminder of who Scott Foster is (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by theytook-r-jobs@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Foster is the official who received 134 phone calls from disgraced referee Tim Donaghy between October 2006 and April 2007, as originally reported by FOX News. That was the same period during which Donaghy admitted to betting on NBA games. The report said that Donaghy called Foster more than any other ref and that he didn't call any other official more than 13 times.

Donaghy's calls to Foster took place immediately before and after games Donaghy was officiating 54 times.

The records also showed Donaghy making several calls to Foster on the days of games, generally for no more than two minutes.

The report also said that when Donaghy called Foster, he mostly used the phone that he dedicated to gambling-related phone calls, and the phone calls stopped abruptly when Donaghy said he stopped gambling.

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[–] Thicasdfg@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dude, that's pretty shady. I mean, who the hell makes 134 phone calls to one guy? And all about gambling too? That's just asking for trouble. NBA needs some better refs for sure.

[–] ruinatex@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Honestly they probably used Donaghy as the fall guy and let the others involved with him get out unscathed to try to keep any form of integrity in the game, kinda like saying "Oh it was just one bad apple, everything is fine!". The issue is that by doing that, they were never able to get rid of the other refs that probably did shady shit, due to fear of them going out publicly saying that the NBA let them keep their jobs in the past despite knowing that they were doing shady stuff.

Unfortunately, we will have to wait for people like Scott Foster to retire for him to be out of the game at this point.

[–] sdomllakcuf99@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

You could hire a hitman

[–] rookie-mistake@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

if you wanna actually talk to the person that wrote that you gotta head further down the thread, you're replying to a bot copy pasting their comment

[–] 09jtherrien@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

That's 19 calls a month, 134/7. The only people I talk to that much is my dad.