(Oct 25, 2025 05:09 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/live-bl...PG9RlAEwA/
Not likely to place any bets on any NBA game in near future. How can you trust them and how does NBA regain trust in their game? And then there are all the legal betting sites that sponsor pro sports these days, can they be trusted?
I figure the two people mentioned most, Billups and Rozier, are probably a couple of gambling's big time losers and the presence of the Mafia/Cosa Rostra here may indicate these two owe money to them and each could possibly be broke.
The sports establishment can't claim that it wasn't warned that this would happen (below). It's mind-boggling that people apparently even bet on professional wrestling, while knowing that it's completely choreographed and scripted.
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NBA's gambling scandal should terrify the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell for one primary reason
https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/nba...59255.html
INTRO: Since 2012, it’s the gambling quote that has stalked NFL commissioner Roger Goodell from the moment it came out of his mouth. And with the NBA now dragged into a federal gambling probe and a handful of stunning prosecutions, it has never felt more relevant.
“If gambling is permitted freely on sporting events, normal incidents of the game such as bad snaps, dropped passes, turnovers, penalties and play-calling inevitably will fuel speculation, distrust and accusations of point-shaving or game-fixing. … It creates more gambling, it creates more gamblers and it creates the more likelihood that people are going to perceive it as being an influence.”
Goodell said that in a 2012 deposition, as part of a lawsuit brought by the state of New Jersey that sought to strike down a federal ban on sports wagering. At the time, it was a cornerstone of the NFL’s boilerplate messaging on the possible proliferation of gambling across the United States. And that messaging could be summed up in four words:
Not now. Not ever.
This was the way under former commissioner Pete Rozelle.
This was the way under his successor, Paul Tagliabue.
And this was the way under Goodell — until it wasn’t.
Of course, the messaging and embrace of gambling has done a 180-degree turn in the NFL, something that Goodell has attributed to changing attitudes and changing legislation in America. Once the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door for the state-by-state proliferation of sports wagering in 2018, the NFL’s opposition to gambling on its games vaporized almost instantly.
But Goodell’s words didn’t. Nor did the truths contained within them... (
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