The 2002 Lakers-Kings Series Was Fixed

Posted on Ballhype earlier this afternoon was this little article by John Marziulli of the New York Daily News. It may seen relatively standard of the occasional Donaghy-related story we see every now and then, but something in particular caught my eye. Marziulli writes: Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were "company men" acting in the interest of the NBA conspired to extend a playoff series in 2002 to a seventh game. My immediate reaction was the same as any other fan of the league who read the article: which series was it? The document does not name the teams. Well, how hard could it be to find out? As it turns out, not very -- only two series went to six games or more in the entire playoffs, and both were the conference finals: New Jersey versus Boston and Los Angeles versus Sacramento. So, I looked at the rest of the description in Marziulli's article to determine which series...