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Originally Posted by Brad
I'd bet that the NBA referees association might have something to say about the NBA starting an investigation based on the results of Donaghy's polygraph!!.
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The Collective Bargaining Agreement specifically forbids quite a bit of gambling type activity by the refs. Not only would the League be completly within their rights to initiate an investigation based on Donaghy's successful polygraph, they could do it on much less reasonable suspicion than that. Nobody has a "right" to be an NBA ref and if you step outside the bounds of permissible behavior by the employer than you should expect some action.
Don't look for the ref's union to stonewall much of anything since they have publicly said:
"We are going to work hard to restore the public's trust in the integrity of the officials in the NBA," he said. "We're going to do our part to gain and regain the public trust and confidence and to make sure that this is not the final word regarding how referees are defined in the public eye."