Retired NBA referee Dick Bavetta included in list of basketball Hall of Fame Selections

[Getting Traded]

What is worse is that there are suggestions that he may have been influencing games at the direction of David Stern. This was suggested by former NBA referee, Tim Donaghy. I believe it but the NBA discredited him because of he was betting on games. Why do you think he was betting and winning, because he knew the fix was in on certain games.

If you don't believe it, then just watch the videos that are posted in this thread, and there have been more egregious examples involving the Lakers, especially the Lakers-Kings 2002 6th game when the Lakers came back miraculously in the 4th quarter after the refs swallowed their whistles. There also was another series with Portland the next year or thereabouts that the same thing happened.

 

[Siro]

I thought the Hall of Fame was for NBA players and coaches. I didn't know you could induct referees or college coaches.

 

[Gameface]

I thought the Hall of Fame was for NBA players and coaches. I didn't know you could induct referees or college coaches.

I also didn't know they had a special wing for POS scum bags who have hurt the game like Bavetta.

 

[nightmare3983]

I thought the Hall of Fame was for NBA players and coaches. I didn't know you could induct referees or college coaches.

It's the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame.

 

[infection]

Is Ron Harper giving the induction speech?

 

[Siro]

It's the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame.

Are you sure they're not the same thing?

 

[VINYLONE]

Is Ron Harper giving the induction speech?

That would be a looong speech.

 

[Gameface]

That would be a long BJ.

Fixed

 

[kabenac]

Bavetta was on MJs payroll.

 

[freakazoid]

Are you sure they're not the same thing?

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, honors players who have shown exceptional skill at basketball, all-time great coaches, referees, and other major contributors to the sport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_players_in_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame

 

[Lakers_Slapper]

I am very very opposed to Dick Bavetta even being a nominee. If he were to win and have to go up on stage to speak. How would we know that it was Dick Bavetta speaking and not small elderly man in a chicken skin costume? Watching Dick Bavetta run down the court was like watching the crypt keeper in human flesh (or what was left of it). When Dick Bavetta officiated a game, and they showed the highlights at the end, the sun spots on his skin would grab more of the audiences attention than the alley-oop that they were showing. Dick Bavetta was too old to the job of an efficient NBA official 35 years before he retired. Dick Bavetta is to Metamucil, what Michael Jordan is to Hanes.

 

[nightmare3983]

I am very very opposed to Dick Bavetta even being a nominee. If he were to win and have to go up on stage to speak. How would we know that it was Dick Bavetta speaking and not small elderly man in a chicken skin costume? Watching Dick Bavetta run down the court was like watching the crypt keeper in human flesh (or what was left of it). When Dick Bavetta officiated a game, and they showed the highlights at the end, the sun spots on his skin would grab more of the audiences attention than the alley-oop that they were showing. Dick Bavetta was too old to the job of an efficient NBA official 35 years before he retired. Dick Bavetta is to Metamucil, what Michael Jordan is to Hanes.

This is probably your best post ever. Very well said.