Only Tim Donaghy Committed Crimes | IXGAMES
Tim Donaghy is in prison – and David Stern doesn’t want anyone else in the NBA to get in trouble because of gambling…… So Stern responded to a report on NBA referees Thursday by vowing to build the *most effective possible system* to monitor illegal activity and preserve the game’s integrity. 
*The best we can do is do the best we can, and that’s all we can do. And if I spoke of confidence, I would be exaggerating,* Stern said on a conference call. *The only thing I’m confident of is that if there’s anything intelligent to be done by the sports league, that will be in the first rank of rules and procedures and analyses.* The commissioner ordered the investigation last August after former referee Donaghy was accused of betting on games he officiated and providing inside information to gambling associates to win their bets. Donaghy began serving a 15-month sentence on Sept. 23 at a federal prison in Pensacola, Fla. Stern promised to implement all the recommendations included in former federal prosecutor Lawrence Pedowitz’s review of the NBA’s referees operations department, the result of a 14-month probe that cost the league several million dollars. (Referees are now allowed in the offseason to bet at a race track, off-track betting establishment or a casino – though still not the sports book. However, a referee must notify the league’s security department within 24 hours of placing such a bet).