March 2021 Bonus Review: Inside Game
Randall Batinkoff's 2019 biopic on the NBA ref scandal is fine, but could have been more
The crime
In the summer of 2007, an FBI investigation into NBA referee Tim Donaghy — alleging that he had bet on basketball games he had officiated — was made public. Donaghy was arrested shortly thereafter, and pled guilty to two federal felony charges of conspiracy (the short of it is that Donaghy passed along tips to a high-school classmate, and got m…