If it's been done in the NFL, it's possible to do it in the NBA. A couple guys on an injury list isn't unusual, but half the team at one time a short time before the playoffs is a bit suspect, and their are people who would try to win at any cost to everybody else, and would go even further to try and cover it up.
Someone not getting caught in a bounty scandal doesn't mean there's not one. If enough people were part of one, they'd be hard to catch.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)