The NBA was shaken by referee Tim Donaghy’s betting scandal—here’s how it unfolded and why the league was never the same.

Tim Donaghy watches himself on the screen, making those same mistakes. Betting hundreds of thousands of dollars on games that he worked, making calls that affected the point spread.

Tim Donaghy sees a different game from the rest of us. Which is why, out of prison, he’s now sports gambling’s golden boy.

Tim Donaghy stands on the court during the game between the New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks. Getty Images. In baseball, Shohei Ohtani, the sport’s biggest name, ...

NBA referee Tim Donaghy made repeated phone calls to a second referee at the same time he provided inside information to professional gamblers during the 2006-2007 season, according to court ...

Then Donaghy, a native Pennsylvanian and 76ers fan, appears on screen and illuminates these words through a voiceover, “I love the game of basketball. Growing up, it's all I did, all I dreamt of ...

Donaghy said he’d like to get to a point where he can just be Tim, who is engaged to be married and the father of four daughters. But there’s always someone who wants to talk about his past.

Or maybe it was because Tim Donaghy showed how easily the league’s games could be manipulated. But whatever it was, many NBA fans had been expecting a gambling scandal to rock the NBA again at ...