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Remember the NBA referee that was betting on NBA games? Well...apparantly things didn't go too smoothly while in prison.
Disgraced referee Tim Donaghy will be released from prison next week and not a moment too soon. A press release from yesterday says that while in the slammer he had his legs broken by a New York mobster. Yikes.
Donaghy is serving a 15-month sentence in Pensacola, Florida, for gambling on NBA games while serving as an NBA referee, which I guess is frowned upon. He will be released to a halfway house in Tampa, but it's not clear if the release is tied to an alleged incident in November of last year, when a mobster went to town on him.
The only evidence of the assault is this press release from a "prisoner advocacy group" that went to the media yesterday.
Donaghy's release date has recently been in question due to concerns about his medical condition. Donaghy was injured during an assault in November of 2008. During the assault, another inmate claiming ties to the New York mob beat Donaghy with a heavy object. Donaghy suffered severe knee and leg injuries that will require surgery.
Oh, man. I know that NBA fans consider the guy a despicable low-life, but that sucks. It's like when you're watching Shawshank Redemption, doesn't some small part of you feel a tiny bit of pity for Bogs after Captain Hadley puts him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life? I mean, sure, the guy was a sadistic, psychopathic rapist, but that just ain't right. (Is it just me? Crickets?)
Anyway, moral of the story? Prison is the worst.
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Disgraced referee Tim Donaghy will be released from prison next week and not a moment too soon. A press release from yesterday says that while in the slammer he had his legs broken by a New York mobster. Yikes.
Don't mess with the Mob. NBA ref finds out the hard way.
