00:00Gilbert Arenas happens to be in the news, ladies and gentlemen, for illegal gambling, it seems.
00:10Now, he's since been released.
00:12I believe you bonded out.
00:13But apparently, Mr. Arenas was involved in an illegal poker game of sorts, which sounds so damn cool.
00:24But Leroy, you ever had like a poker night or something like that?
00:27I kind of feel like that's something like, you know, guys get together.
00:31We played cards during Monday Night Football.
00:35And then I had some friends that I played.
00:38Yeah, I smoked cigars when you did it.
00:40No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:42Nah.
00:42It was, I mean, like, but I'm thinking the poker that I played, if I lost 200 bucks, I was mad.
00:53Like, it was small.
00:54Like, $1, $2.
00:55Like, just, it wasn't, like, you know what I mean?
01:00Well, I'll give you some details on the case.
01:03Since the story broke, Gilbert Arenas is pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on a $50,000 bond.
01:11So, trial date was set for late September.
01:15That's when I'll have an opportunity to fight things out in court.
01:18But they say that he ran an illegal gambling business.
01:23They claim that the ex-Washington Wizards guard, along with five unders, rented out his Encino mansion to hold high-stakes card games from September of 2021 to July of 2022.
01:38The feds alleged Reed has hired a 51-year-old to help him stage the place for games and collect rent.
01:43That he hired women to serve the gamblers at the residence, added staff of chefs, valet, security guards.
01:51Oh, so, now, let's be clear.
01:53Let's be clear.
01:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:54This is not just a poker game.
01:58No, no, no.
01:59He was trying to open up a casino.
02:00Yes, indeed.
02:02As a matter of fact, this does not help his case.
02:04One of the poker tables that was seized in the operation has a picture that says Arena's Poker Club on it and has a picture of his logo of him just kind of, like, balling out there.
02:19So, it doesn't help his case.
02:22What I'm talking about, just a friendly little poker game, right, where it's not even high stakes.
02:29Versus a guy who...
02:35A casino, a guy who opened up a casino.
02:37He had chefs, valet, security guards.
02:40He got arrested, therefore, it was no little innocent game of poker.
02:43Yeah, absolutely.
02:44And now, interestingly, he already had his arraignment and the court date has been set for September.
02:55But if you go over to his social media, he says the true story, because, you know, he has a very popular podcast at the moment.
03:02He assures everyone that he will be breaking his silence.
03:09And according to one of his hashtags, Snitch Gill is on the way.
03:15And he apparently is boasting a 51-0 record against the court.
03:25His exact quote was, I'm back on the streets.
03:29This ain't got bleep to do with me.
03:31Just rented the house.
03:32Wasn't a part of it.
03:34Snitch Gill on the way.
03:36Well, you can't put your name on the tables.
03:39And to have news for him, National Whistleblower Day was yesterday.
03:48Well, that, uh, very, very interesting.
03:53Nick Young even reacted to it.
03:54He said, uh, my brother is an idiot, y'all.
03:57We're going to change the show's name from Gill's Arena to Swaggy's Arena.
04:02Whatever they say he did, he did that.
04:05And he might as well tell like D-Lo.
04:08Nice.
04:08So, well, here's the, here's the problem when you do something illegal.
04:14Yeah.
04:15If somebody go and lose a boatload of money, they're going to snitch.
04:19Yes.
04:20And, and, you know, the thing is, uh, this is set to happen or like, you know, rumored to have happened September of 2021 all the way to July of 2022.
04:31So, so, in my brain, if I can think back to that time, let's say I came up on some money at that point from running this business or I was successful in those games.
04:40That money's already been spent.
04:42If I'm being honest, I've already moved on from that.
04:45I don't even care about that.
04:47I thought I got away with it.
04:48If I'm being honest, then all of a sudden you get a knock on the door and they're like, Hey, remember what happened two and a half years ago, three years ago?
04:55So, we want to talk about that.
04:57And you're like, damn, that?
05:00Yes.
05:01Yes.
05:01That's the investigation was taking place.
05:04Investing.
05:04While you thought you was getting away with it.
05:06They got to build that case.
05:08They got to build that case for sure.
05:09But, uh, you know, it's very interesting to see what happens here.
05:12What I thought was even more interesting in this, uh, you know, I don't want to necessarily quote the show pony on this one, but, uh, Gilbert Arenas had some very high praise words for Terry Rozier as he was traded from Charlotte to Miami.
05:33Terry Rozier was wrapped up in some stuff as well.
05:37Maybe a little mentorship going on.
05:39Mr. Arenas.
05:40You know, there was an article that came out from SI in which Gilbert Arenas really enjoyed the acquisition of Terry Rozier to Miami.
05:53And I don't know anybody else enjoyed it as much as Mr. Arenas.
05:58Maybe Terry was the one.
06:01Terry's the kingpin.
06:03No.
06:04I'm saying he was the one that gave up.
06:07That gave up.
06:08Oh, during the investigation.
06:09You know, probably he was at the poker game, right?
06:13He showed up to the poker game and was like, Hey, I may or may not have, uh, lost all my money, but in, uh, in about three weeks, we take on the Knicks.
06:28Why don't you go ahead and bet the under for that one.
06:30That'll take care of my debts.
06:32And maybe he traded the information to get out of his investigation.
06:36So if Terry Rozier sounds not guilty, maybe he traded this Gilbert Arenas information.
06:43Listen.
06:44Not to quote the show pony himself, but could be something.
06:55I think that's the most could be something, could be nothing moment we've ever had on the show.
06:58And he happens to not be the one developing this.
07:02So I, uh, I'm going to go ahead and take credit for that one because J Fig inspired me to do research, but I don't want to give her credit.
07:09No, excuse me.
07:10Uh, don't take my credit.
07:11We don't, we don't, we don't like to give other people credit.
07:15So we're just going to go ahead and say, I invented this, but no, very interesting.
07:18You can take credit.
07:20Yeah, that's true.
07:21That's true.
07:22That's why we'll, we'll wait and see determine, uh, on what repercussions are for us bringing this up.
07:28But, you know, there is some very interesting things coming up as well.
07:31We saw one of the Morris twins go down for fraud recently.
07:34Did you see that?
07:35That was interesting.
07:36What happened?
07:37Uh, I can't tell if it's the one that's on TV or not.
07:40Um, or if the one that like was somehow like still relevant, not relevant, but just like in the league.
07:47But, uh, yeah, X Nick markets Morris, not Mark Keefe.
07:53Um, I think, I guess Mark Keefe is the one who's on television.
07:57Um, you know, when they look alike, it's not my fault.
08:00All right.
08:01It's not, it's really not my fault.
08:02This is not one of those things.
08:03They literally, they literally look alike, but yep.
08:07Okay.
08:07So ESPN analyst and ex Nick Marcus Morris allegedly stole over $250,000 from casinos and he was denied bail in a fraud case.
08:22How did he do that?
08:24How do you steal money from a casino?
08:25No, I think he had a debt.
08:26I think he owed a debt to the casino.
08:28He really, he allegedly received $265,000 from two major Las Vegas casinos through bad checks that he did not pay back when they didn't cash.
08:40Oh, yeah.
08:40So it was a debt.
08:41Oh, okay.
08:42So he got, yeah, yeah.
08:44Performing a similar scam.
08:46Wow.
08:46So, you know, he was making appearances on, um, first take recently.
08:52And I think it was like in favor of the Miami Heat.
08:56So I was like, I like this guy on TV and now he's gone.
08:59He's the one that played for us.
09:01I believe.
09:02Yes.
09:02The one who got his back broken by the Joe Kitsch brothers.
09:05No, wasn't it Marquis?
09:09I'm pretty sure it was Marquis.
09:10It might've been Marquis.
09:12And him, it's really hard.
09:13It's one of those.
09:14Which, which Morris twin played for the Heat?
09:16I mean, it was an underwhelming career.
09:18So it's not.
09:19It was very underwhelming.
09:20Yeah.
09:20It was Marquis.
09:21Oh, well, there you go.
09:22There it goes.
09:23Mark Keefe after.
09:24All right.
09:25So then his back is fine.
09:27But nonetheless, he was in, uh, taking the custody in Broward County.
09:30So, uh, he came on Sunday.
09:35Oh man.
09:36He was booked at the airport too.
09:38Fort Lauderdale airport.
09:40Yikes.
09:41Uh, at the airport, at the airport, came in on Sunday, uh, rest at the airport as he
09:48was booked on the charge of fraud.
09:50Yikes.
09:51Morris's agent seems to imply that Morris's debts were far smaller.
09:56Just so everyone stands, understands here.
09:59There's zero fraud or whatever crap outlets have said regarding fake checks or whatever
10:03the hell.
10:03This is due to an outstanding marker with a casino.
10:06Apparently, if you have over $1,200, they can issue a warrant for your arrest.
10:12Absolute insanity.
10:13The wording is crazy.
10:17Damn.
10:17For that amount of money, they'll embarrass you in the airport with your family.
10:21That's what Mark Keefe wrote on Twitter.
10:23That's, uh, his brother.
10:25They really got y'all thinking, bro, did some fraud bleep.
10:28They could have came to the crib for all that.
10:30When y'all hear the real story on this, all I can say is lesson learned.
10:34Bro, we'll tell y'all tomorrow.
10:35This weird stuff gave me a headache.
10:37Like, well, that's just one way of making them pay up.
10:40That's it.
10:41Yeah.
10:42Do you think they've gone too far, though, by doing that in front of his family at the
10:46airport?
10:47Like, you know what?
10:50It's unfortunate, but some people take pride or, or they, they, they revel in doing stuff
11:00like this at those times, right?
11:02Yeah.
11:03Um, he wasn't trying to make a run for it, right?
11:09There's ways they could have contacted him.
11:12I don't know if they tried to contact him and told him, you know, Hey, take care of this
11:17or whatever.
11:19Right.
11:19I don't know.
11:20But the fact that the matter is, is that if he owed the money, there's ways of making
11:27them pay it.
11:27And I would say this, if somebody owes you money or you owe somebody money, stopping
11:35them from work is not a way to get paid.
11:39Like, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't understand that as Jordan points out, they denied him bail.
11:47So it's gotta be more serious than what they're talking about.
11:50Or maybe the amount is more serious than, I don't know.
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