VTi-Group, a Tampa Bay-based media company, decided to publish Donaghy's 245-page book after Random House scrapped it.
It originally was titled "Blowing the Whistle: The Culture of Fraud in the NBA," and accuses several referees, by name, of misconduct, according to excerpts posted in October at the sports Web site Deadspin.com.
Benjamin Daniel, a VTi-Group project manager, said yesterday that no substantial copy editing was done to the book since that version, except to correct a few typos.
The NBA has said that a 14-month review by former federal prosecutor Lawrence Pedowitz showed that Donaghy was the only referee involved in criminal conduct, but that it would look into the new accusations in the book.
VTi-Group said that the memoir, along with the "60 Minutes" interview, "will finally answer many of the questions about his gambling, the NBA games that were affected and the involvement with the New York Mafia."
James "Baba" Battista, a former friend of Donaghy's from their days at Cardinal O'Hara High, said in a recent segment on HBO's "Real Sports" that he called Donaghy "the king – Elvis. Because nobody picked winners like he did. Nobody."
Battista and another local O'Hara alum, Thomas Martino, pleaded guilty last year to illegal gambling and wire fraud, respectively, for paying Donaghy cash for basketball picks that Battista said were correct nearly 80 percent of the time.
