Posted on 10/23/2025 12:34:00 PM PDT by equaviator
Three NBA stars, including Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, have been charged in a pair of sweeping and “historic” federal gambling busts — one of which implicates four of the five Mafia families, and the other involves bets placed on LeBron James and four NBA teams.
The mob is accused of paying Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones, 49, to act as “face cards” to attract high rollers to big-money poker games that were fixed using sophisticated tech, including rigged card shufflers and special glasses and contact lenses, according to an indictment by the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. The other probe involves an illegal sports gambling ring that placed bets on games using insider information on the Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers and their players.
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The NBA’s getting even stinkier.
FUGEDDABUODDITTT.
Shocking! Sports is not on the up and up?
There is no Mafia.
Old Mafia guys claim the NBA was fixed from its inception.
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Omertà!
Earlier today ESPN was practically falling over themselves trying to NOT talk about this. Pat McAfee just about laughed off a legal rep who was reporting on the early information.
There have always been two types of people who bet on sports:
—Those connected to the mob betting on sure things
—Everybody else aka the suckers
Well done
Yup—kinda embarrassing when ESPN covers fixed sports events...
Don't worry.
MSLSD, Mediaite, BullBLEEPico, etc will find a way to blame, accuse President Trump, and/or some of his family.
Then, it will be "news."
They placed bets on the Lakers, gee I could have done that, they have sucked since 2020, see that simple
Of course the NBA is rigged
False. They are now called "CIA", "DIA", "Mossad", "MI6", etc...
Rumor was that Micheal Jordan’s one year of minor league baseball was an agreed-to punishment for making illegal (at the the time) bets.
Pete Rose bet on games in which he had a duty to perform, but he was never accused of betting against his own team. The danger was if a player becomes indebted to gamblers, he may be coerced into failing to perform to favor gamblers.
Shoeless Joe Jackson likely never collaborated with gamblers, but he was offered bribes. His play during the World Series does not indicate that he was trying to throw the games, although his teammates did.
Sport$$$
So now I wonder whether these guys will get the “Pete Rose/Shoeless Joe” treatment by the sports press and the league ...?
1. Player gets in over his head with gambling debts and cannot pay.
2. Player told he will pay. Period.
3. Players begs inability to do so.
4. Big guy wraps an arm around player and tells him all or part of his debt can be erased if he cooperates.
5. A few points here, a few points there, some inside info.
6. Player is now owned for life.
This has happened many, many times.
Good. Insider Trading.
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