Refs Bet?

Breaking news from espn,yahoo and anything else, there is an investigation from the FBI looking at NBA officials; to see if they were gambling on games or not. Now everyone is talking about the shock and awe and all of that, but wait a second does this really shock the normal fan?
If you've watched the nba over the years you've seen worse and worse officiating that seems to be directed towards one team more than the other. Some prime examples that come to mind are the 2000 conference finals game 7 Por-LA, All of the 2006 NBA finals from game 3 on; those are just some playoff examples I'm sure if you look into regular season games you'll see more examples of the same thing.

The thing is while no one really wants to admit it, most diehard basketball fans saw that officiating was never what it was supposed to be, fair. Most of the time it seemed even in the slightest that the refs leaned one way but it was never always to the same team which was confusing, however now it makes sense if the Refs bet on everyteam once or twice it wouldn't be as obvious and hopefully they wouldn't get caught, but to say it wasn't happening is overlooking how bad and unfair some of the games had been in recent memory.

This scandal that is about to hit the NBA is huge but makes me wonder about all of sports, the NFL seems like it'd be the least likely to have something like this happen because people watch so many games that it'd be obvious if some ref always seemed to lean one way or another and never called a game down the middle. MLB its realistic that it could happen because call a few balls strikes and so on, no one really could tell plus there is 162 games so it'd be easier to pick your spots.

This scandal isn't really a shocker to alot of people, its like saying the WWE is real fighting, everyone knows that although the guys actually may get hurt, at the core its not really fair and the winner has already been decided.