Black Whistle Breaks: NBA Will Notify Referees to Extend Series to 6-7 Yao Ming's Rockets are an example

On June 15, Beijing time, Spurs reporter Garza posted an interview with the former well-known black whistle Donaghi about how the league manipulated the game, which caused heated discussions among fans. Garza's caption read: "Donagie continues to shake the credibility of the NBA. Do you think the league manipulated the game in the way he described? ”

In the interview, Donaghi said: "When the series is 0-2 or 0-3, before the game, the league will call the referee into a locker room and show us a dozen or twenty clips to emphasize to us how to blow these balls, but these blows are good for the team behind and not good for the team ahead, so that the league can extend the series to six or seven games. ”

Donaghi then mentions an example from the past. "In Houston, Jeff Van Gundy stepped up and said that a league official told him that the referee would be blowing certain penalties strictly during the game that night. And they did. I remember there was Yao Ming in the series at that time, and they were already 2-0 up, and then you know, the score became 2-2 and ended up playing seven games. So, it has to do with the way the league works: when the referees train in the morning, they set out the decisions that need to be focused on that night, and they select the teams that have been sluggish that season and target the teams that have performed well. ”

Donaghi, who served as an NBA referee from 1994 to 2007, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for gambling and game manipulation at the end of July 2008.

Now that the Finals are tied at 2-2 and the Thunder and Pacers face a battle for the Kings, do you think the NBA is really going to control the game and try to extend the series, as Donaghi described? Feel free to leave a message to express your opinions.