Thursday, July 26, 2007

Former NBA Referee Tim Donaghy is excited to bet on the proposed NBA basketball team in Las Vegas

Maybe he is, if it will let him bet on the new Las Vegas NBA team in the gambling capital of the world.

He he... Yep, we're still talking about that NBA referee who bets on the NBA games he officiates in. For all ya'll who have been living under a rock lately, NBA referee Tim Donaghy is under investigation by the FBI for betting on the games he officiates. Yep, the bastard is calling fouls to cover the fucking spread.

Now, with the NBA's latest and by far, BIGGEST scandal yet, Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman is confident that the issue won't hurt the city's bid for an NBA basketball team whatsoever.

Get this, mayor Goodman even thinks that this issue will even strengthen Las Vegas' goal to have its own NBA team. He he... It's Las Vegas folks. Everybody gets weird whenever lots and lots of money are involved.

Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman said, ''I think that there's going to be a public recognition that Las Vegas does monitor this kind of alleged activity. I don't want anyone's bad fortune to cause us good fortune, but I think it will cause people to look at Las Vegas in a light perhaps differently than they do, because we do in fact regulate this kind of activity.''

Does that also mean NBA referee Tim Donaghy can be elected vice mayor in Vegas?

''We're the only regulatory agency in the world that really looks at unusual activity as far as the movement of the line and that type of conduct,'' mayor Goodman said.

''That's why whenever red herrings are thrown up that somehow Las Vegas is a bad place because we have sports betting, I look at it just as a reverse. I think it's a good thing that Las Vegas has the type of regulation that makes sure that bad things don't happen.''

NBA Commissioner David Stern said that he won't put a team in Las Vegas for as long as they have betting on basketball, although he amended his position this year. Stern said he will leave the decision to the owners.

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