Tim Donaghy got a lucky break on Tuesday, as a federal attorney said that the gambling goof doesn’t have to pay the NBA the $1.4 million the league is trying to rustle from its former referee.

Will Brinson of AOL FANHOUSE bounces along a report from NEW YORK NEWSDAY that the Association was asking for the million-dollar amount from their former employee. The figure was based on Donaghy’s league salary from 2003 to 2006 plus the costs of investigating the ref’s alleged game-fixing.

However, the Feds decided that $1.4 mil was a bit too much: Read more…