00:00and sam is going to spend some time now here with us going over it so much debate is is coming out
00:05of the post story with this sam and i think that's probably a good place to start because by now i
00:10think most people know that nba player uh in in terry rozier was arrested for allegedly shaving
00:16points off his props chauncey billups arrested for allegedly running a poker ring that was rigged
00:22and you're seeing all these kind of things from that but the fallout is now the story at this
00:27point sam and when what's happening is you're doing shows and you're getting asked questions
00:32from people like me is sports betting bad should we get rid of sports betting should partners in the nba
00:40be partnering up and they're like silly conversations to have because we just know that they're not going
00:45away but it does open up the conversation i think to how to make things a little bit cleaner and better
00:51so that the average fan who really doesn't understand can know that they feel safe placing
00:57bets and know that the players that are involved are not getting uh you know paid to not perform
01:04and i think that is probably the place that i'd like to start with you today
01:07yeah it's it's a lot to unpack it's definitely the the biggest sports betting scandal we've had
01:14in about a year we've had a number of these you know random college uh betting investigations that
01:19have gone on and one that's actually ongoing and connected to the group that's allegedly behind
01:24this scheme as well but i think the really interesting thing in terms of fallout is the
01:28fact that you know the nba had already cleared one of these players terry rozier he wasn't a surprise
01:34name we had already heard that there was that game uh from i believe march 2023 uh that he was
01:40allegedly you know had tipped off a friend that he wasn't going to you know finish the game and fake
01:46an injury and you know the fbi came out with more reports on exactly how that worked with you know
01:50sending money over to his house and everything but the fact that the nba cleared him of any wrongdoing
01:56in the investigation that it had it seized his phone it allowed him to play for two more years and
02:01then all of a sudden yesterday it seems like the nba didn't even know this was coming the fbi comes out
02:06and announces not only is he going to jail but current head coach chauncey billups is going to jail as
02:12well as a um ex-head coach for the calves damon jones who's longtime friend of lebron so i think
02:19the big thing here is like you know why didn't the league find any of this beforehand you know now
02:24they don't have subpoena power of the fbi they don't have you know the resources they do and the
02:29timing is definitely really interesting too right like you talk about two days in the nba season you
02:33just had two great games to start on nbc victor when benyama was making headlines with his great play
02:40and all of a sudden the fbi comes out with not just the director of the fbi who i've never seen
02:45involved in anything like this but you have the doj there you have um you know law enforcement from
02:50new york you have law enforcement from pennsylvania you have a whole organized effort so clearly they've
02:55been working on this for a long time and there's a lot of people who knew about it except for the nba
03:00so i think now you have to go you know where does the nba go from here in terms of public image
03:06like you're mentioning with you know uh player availability with tanking games it came out in
03:11the indictment as well that allegedly billups you know not only was part of this poker ring but that
03:16he had notified someone that they were going to tank the rest of their season when they went one in nine
03:20so you know it's never good when the nba has to deal with that kind of stuff they've already been
03:24dealing with a lot of concerns about injuries and tankings and everything like that so uh we don't
03:29even know the full picture as well they called this only the tip of the iceberg so i think the nba is
03:35going to be playing catch up during the worst time of the year for it to be playing catch up which is
03:39right at the start of the season
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