To be honest, I think Stern and the NBA is the one ducking and weaving now. Donaghy is going to jail and he knows it. He lost his job, family, sanity, dignity and future by all this. He's a broken man and the bloke really hasn't got any more to lose by further lying to the authorities. Guys this deep down tend to be straight shooters and tell it how it is.
Questions do really have to be answered about that Game 6 between the Kings and Lakers and a few others. Questions have been asked, but the NBA just sweeps them under the table.
I also don't believe that only one ref was involved in something this major. Okay, one ref may have taken money from bookies, but I also believe that other refs have been influenced by the NBA, which as far as I'm concerned is cheating. Where someone attempts to change the outcome of the game I don't really care who and why, they still committed the offence.
Sure, the NBA will turn this around. It's a multi-billion dollar enterprise verses a single person. It would be very interesting if the US Congress decided to hold an Commission into the NBA. It's one thing to bend the facts to the FBI and authorities, but it's another thing to bend the facts during a Commission involving Congress.
Remember that the baseball steriod drama started with one person. Rumours were floating around for years before it hit that players were using steriod. The League officials and team owners all stated "nope, not happening", "all clean", "we wouldn't allow it" and low and behold, one person is caught and the next thing you know the Mitchell Report is commissioned.