Utah Jazz won 2 games on ref's betting list

Published: Friday, Oct. 3, 2008 12:16 a.m. MDT
 |  E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - 
BOISE — Two Jazz games during the 2006-07 NBA seasons were among 17 on which the league believes imprisoned referee Tim Donaghy placed bets, according to a report issued Thursday that addresses officiating concerns stemming from the Donaghy gambling affair.

The Jazz won both games — one at Denver on Jan. 7, 2007, and the other against Atlanta on Feb.12 of the same year — but the report suggests there is no belief that Donaghy manipulated the results of those two or any others.

No other referees were implicated in the report, a fact that came as no surprise to Jazz coach Jerry Sloan.

"I didn't think there would be," Sloan said Thursday. "That's just my personal opinion. And fortunately there wasn't.

"We don't need that (problem)," he added, "because we don't always have a positive image."

Officials from 14 teams were contacted during preparation of the report.

Jazz general manager Kevin O'Connor on Thursday would not say if anyone from the franchise was among that group, but he did say the team "cooperated in every way, shape or form that we were supposed to."

O'Connor suggested he was comfortable with the report's assessments.

Story continues below

"It's good to get it behind us," he said.


E-mail: tbuckley@desnews.com

Recent comments

First of all the game was on Jan 6 not the Jan 7.
And Denver shot...

correction | Oct. 3, 2008 at 3:57 p.m.

previousnext

Latest comments

Play safe boys and girls and no one gets hurt. Fireworks are an American...

Why do the Jazz continue to settle for mediocrity? Look at the rest of the...

Do you know any poor doctors? Why not? Because there has been a price...

Prices* not places

Obama deserves bashing

Bush is the most hated/bashed president in history even though he removed an...

The penalties in these theft cases seem to be too light to me - they seem...

Obviously it is worth $75 million, all you need to do is look around. People...

Why do we think we have to pick everyone apart because we don't have the same...

Our family had an AWESOME day at the parade and subsequent festival. The only...

"Hate mongers" -- I'm beginning to think that those who use that term are the...

Advertisements