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PRO BASKETBALL; REF SENTENCED
Published: October 17, 2000

The N.B.A. referee Bennett Salvatore has been sentenced to a year of probation, 150 hours of community service and fined $500 for his role in airline ticket fraud.

The 50-year-old Stamford, Conn., resident pleaded guilty in a New Haven federal court on July 26 to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service for the tax year 1993

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Not only did Salvatore officiate Game 4 of the Suns-Lakers series (the one where Kobe tied it at the end of regulation and won it at the end of OT on two shaky non-calls on Nash, both by Salvatore), not only did Salvatore officiate Sunday night's Game 5 (in which Miami had a 40-12 free-throw advantage at one point), but Salvatore called the foul on Wade's final drive in overtime (remember, the call where ABC couldn't find a replay to show that anyone touched him?) even though he was standing at midcourt a full 35-40 feet from the play, and even though two other refs were closer to the play. Not only was that NOT his call, he butchered it.

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