Former NBA Referee Tim Donaghy
The Rich Eisen Show
ESPN
4.3 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:42.8 | Welcome to the Jim's Action Show. We got a massive story that broke in the NBA as it involved gambling that has taken down a head coach, current head coach, of course, |
| 0:47.0 | Chauncey Billups, an active player in Terry Rozier, and a former player in Damon Jones. |
| 0:52.9 | And this is pretty close to me because I'm very good friends with |
| 0:55.4 | Chauncey Bellas, but also Damon Jones. |
| 0:58.0 | I really don't know Terry that well, but that's not the case. |
| 1:01.8 | The league is in crisis mode. |
| 1:03.8 | There's only one person, it's only one person on earth who truly knows what it's like |
| 1:07.9 | on the inside of a scandal like this. |
| 1:10.3 | He was a NBA referee for 13 years. |
| 1:12.7 | He spent 15 months, 15 months in prison for providing inside information on his own games. |
| 1:19.5 | He's been called a criminal. |
| 1:21.6 | He's been called a scapegoat, everything in the book. |
| 1:24.1 | But today, we'll find out what he calls himself. We're joined by former NBA |
| 1:30.4 | official referee Tim Donne. Tim, what's up, my man? I'm doing great, Tim. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:35.7 | No, I mean, thanks for coming on. And I know you've been running the circuit, especially since, |
| 1:40.8 | you know, a lot of this stuff broke. And the first thing that I thought about to this was like, when you heard the news, when you heard the news, what was the first thing that went through your mind? |
| 1:52.6 | Overdue. I mean, I knew back, you know, 20 years ago when I was involved that this was going on, I knew, you, you know, my case was bigger than, uh, |
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