Need Stocking Stuffers? Tim Donaghy's Book to Be Out By Christmas

by Tom Ziller

Filed under: NBA Gambling, NBA Referees

Deadspin reports disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who was dropped from a book deal with Random House earlier this year, has a publisher for his purported tell-all exposé. A small Florida-based media company, VTi-Group, will release the book -- Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA -- this month. Assumingly enough, Deadspin has what appears to be an unknowing blurb on the book's supposed cover, an assertion that this is "the book the NBA doesn't want you to read."



Deadspin's Tommy Craggs reports that Random House imprint Triumph Books dropped Donaghy under pressure from the NBA. But league spokesman Tim Frank told FanHouse today that the NBA "never threatened a lawsuit or anything else." Upon dropping plans to release Donaghy's book, Triumph cited the presence of too many red flags in the text for their lawyers' tastes.

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