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.
Did the mob own those guys?
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Recently, former disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who admitted to betting on games during his time as a league official and was sentenced to prison for doing so, broke down why he thinks this latest scandal is just the tip of the iceberg.
“I received a text from one of the FBI agents that worked my case, and he basically said they’re not going to be able to cover this up like they covered up mine…. David Stern really ran that whole investigation and it got shut down by highest level of people,” said Donaghy, per the PBD Podcast, via Fadeaway World.
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