According to Tim Donaghy, who is a total douche and is facing a possible 25 years in prison for altering the outcome of games he officiated, is now saying that the infamous game 6 of the western conference finals in which the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly beat the upstart Sacramento Kings due in no small part to some of the worst officiating evar seen by anyone EVAR was in fact a screw job planned by the referees officiating that game.
According to documents submitted by Donaghy’s lawyers:

“Referees A, F and G were officiating a playoff series between Teams 5 and 6 in May of 2002. It was the sixth game of a seven-game series, and a Team 5 victory that night would have ended the series. However, Tim learned from Referee A that Referees A and F wanted to extend the series to seven games. Tim knew referees A and F to be ‘company men,’ always acting in the interest of the NBA, and that night, it was in the NBA’s interest to add another game to the series. Referees A and F heavily favored Team 6. Personal fouls [resulting in obviously injured players] were ignored even when they occurred in full view of the referees. Conversely, the referees called made-up fouls on Team 5 in order to give additional free throw opportunities for Team 6. Their foul-calling also led to the ejection of two Team 5 players. The referees’ favoring of Team 6 led to that team’s victory that night, and Team 6 came back from behind to win that series.

I’m not a Kings fan or anything, but when I first read this my reaction was the same as former Kings player (and one of the players that fouled out during that game) Scott Pollard - “I KNEW IT!” That one call when Mike Bibby got elbowed in the grill and got whistled for the foul was too unreal to believe that everything was on the up and up.

Granted, Donaghy would try to say anything to get his ass out of jail sooner, and he is going out of his way to try and rat out every single person he can in exchange for leniency, but this is the one thing that he has said during his arrest that I believe.

But he’s still a waste of skin.

So I posted last week about the Sacramento Kings cheerleaders and their harmless camera fun. Now a bunch of silly shots of the Washington Wizards dance team surface. Turns out lots of people like to look at pictures of scantily clad women that dance for a living. Who knew?

But now I’m wondering, what’s the story with cheerleaders? What is their actual purpose? Sure I love them as much as the next guy, but what’s it all for? They stroll out, do a little dance, get ogled, mocked, and pristinely strut off the field or court, hands waiving and heads held high. Isn’t this strange? Do they mind being viewed as meat market sex objects? Aside from teenage girls who admire their dancing talent, cheerleaders are strictly on display for brainless sex appeal. And damn if it doesn’t work.

Example: You’re at a 49er game (or whatever team), and the Gold Rush Girls saunter by with one hand on hip and the other waiving a glitzy gold pompom. Without fail, some average drunk will stand up with beer in hand and wave back with a smile the size of Texas, all the while hollering catcalls. Is this wrong? Hard to say. Pigheaded and macho, yes, but it is encouraged, and the women themselves seem to love it. What else is to be expected? You can’t honestly hope for the average male fan to be interested in their choreographed spirit, can you?

Along the same lines, watch this video for a laugh. No real harm done.

Awww….isn’t that sweet?????? Wait….is she…no…

PWN3D. Thanks to Thug E. Fresh for always serving up the fresh links, even if he doesn’t call me back and makes me drive back from SF at 3 AM wasted. WE STILL HOMIES.

I’ve been to my share of Sacramento Kings games and even though they don’t really win that much anymore maybe they could have some NBA Hot Cheerleader battle or something since this whole “hot cheerleader” photo thing has gotten the Kings more attention this season then anything else. I’m sure you might have seen
this by now about the lovely (and talented) Kings “dancer” / Cheerleaders. Now people are freaking out on the “internets” about it. I say - let them have fun… I say “right on”.

I’m just wondering where the rest of the photos from this seemingly epic night actually went. In hopes of finding more and in the spirit of sharing we bring you some more photos of the Sacramento Kings Cheerleaders.

So srsly… where are the rest?

Bill and I went to MacWorld 2008 in San Francisco this week. Video interviews are on their way up on our Brand Channel on Youtube. Check this one out with DJ Destiny, the Sacramento Kings’ DJ, talking about the latest and illest in DJ technology from the iSkin booth… era-era-siiiiiiiiick!