The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside information about NBA athletes and rigged poker games backed by Mafia families.
Anybody in the world of sports who did not see this coming the moment the powers that be started talking about legalizing sports betting has rocks for brains. Point-shaving has been going on in basketball for generations, baseball games have been fixed by gamblers since the Civil War. When sports betting and all of the attendant prop bets were legalized, it was just a matter of time until players and coaches got caught up in fixing games.
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