Monday, December 14, 2009

Debunking Tim Donaghy The Right Way

I've seen several articles trying to call Donaghy a lair. The way they go about it is to say take an item like Donaghy saying that Steve Javie hates Allen Iverson. Then they go on to do a betting analysis to show that AI got the same treatment in Javie ref'd games versus other refs.

You know what - they may be right. You know what elsewhere - you can't use that to invalidate all of what Donaghy is saying.

Yes, it may debunk one particular betting strategy he had. It still may be true that Javie hates AI and that Donaghy believed it affected the score in those games. However, he could just be wrong about that without undermining his truthfulness.

It's entirely different than the direct claims he made like Bavetta saying that he fixed the 1993 Cavs-Nets playoffs (see below).

That's why I'm analyzing each claim by claim.

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