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[Haberstroh] Chris Paul’s teams have been favored in 15 of 20 playoff games with Foster officiating. They went 3-17 and lost by an average of 11.2 points. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Handcuffed@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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Haberstroh wrote an article about CP3 and Foster on his substack but he tweeted out this stat and it's astounding.

https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1727596935534559437

reddit wants me to add more thoughts so I'll just add that Scott Foster is closely tied with a corrupt gambling ref and shouldn't have been allowed to officiate for the last 20 years.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/scott-foster-recipient-of-134-tim-donaghy-phone-calls-refereeing-celtics-heat-game-3/

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.

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[–] JMEEKER86@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

The dirt is obvious. There were way more dirty refs than just Donaghy and David Stern killed the investigation because he didn't want the NBA's reputation to tank if the truth came out. Of course, that means that the dirty refs became unfireable even if they were Donaghy's best bro like Foster. And of course everyone is going to say stuff like "but people already complain about the refs all the time" or "everyone knows that the refs are corrupt", but there is a big big difference between a commonly held suspicion and confirmation. For starters, the casual fans don't recognize individual refs and may have occasional complaints about how a game goes, but aren't really familiar with the conspiracies. If there's confirmation? It's in the news, there's congressional hearings, and even the most oblivious casual hears about it. Confirmation would cost the league easily at least $10B. Keeping Foster around is a bad look, but it harms the league a lot less than getting rid of him would.