Refgate

Michael Wilbon equates the emerging NBA "Refgate" with the NFL's "Spygate"...sort of.

Wilbon makes some good points about the need for disclosure and a fuller NBA investigation rather than commish David Stern's denials and stonewalling. But Wilbon can't decide if an Arlen Specter-type congressional crusader is a good thing, or a bad thing - for either the iintegrity of the NBA or NFL. Moreover, I'm not sure how "obsessively" the media covered spygate since it seems like most journalists went out of their way to downplay the significance of the Patriots cheating in an AFC championship.

Bottomline: everyone agrees the game 6 of the 2002 conference finals between the Lakers and Kings was one of the worst officiated games in league history. Disgraced former ref Tim Donaghy has provided an explanation for it. The onus is now on Stern and the league to explain why or how they allowed it to be so poorly officiated. In this debate about Refgate, perhaps one reporter could do us all a favor and as Stern directly about Game 6 with the benefit of six years worth of hindsight.