Pro-athletes involved in high tech theft and fraud involving the Gambino crime family in sports betting. Basketball (NBA) and online poker, could go deeper. Money laundering, you name it. https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sport...rrested-in-fbi-sports-gambling-investigation/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ups-terry-rozier-arrested-gambling-rcna239312
The LA Lakers and Toronto Rangers, wow. Online poker involves rigged games but also casinos in Vegas and Miami with high tech cheating technologies. Chauncey Billups alledgedly bilked bettors hundreds of thousands of dollars per sitting. Don't casinos cheat anyway and they only give a shit if YOU cheat? They get a shit if you win, period.
https://x.com/lakeshowyo/status/1981327396772204988?s=42 You can excuse away the bad shots since most of them just bounced off the front rim. Those turnovers though? Especially at the beginning of the clip? Yikes.
I bet the NFL is worse. They singled out the NBA here. Not that I have a problem with bringing these guys to justice, I do not. But the NFL is worse
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...-vs-auburn-game-official-wont-return-in-2025/ I didn’t watch this game but from what I heard on some of the CFB podcasts and shows I listen to, they were egregious calls in Georgia’s favor.
This scam is way deeper than it appears on the surface, and safe to say it predates legal sports betting by decades. Sports have been a joke for a while due to poor officiating, but now it makes perfect sense. I'm hearing this has influence in NFL as well. Maybe Woody will end up being involved and he'll finally be forced to sell the team. That's the best thing that could happen to the Jets ever.
Yeah, all it would take is get a role player to brick a few shots to shave points in a game with a big spread and no one really knows....
The opportunities in basketball are under the radar too. No one really has eyes on a Hawks/Hornets game in January. The sports books flag big bets on strange outcomes though. That’s how Rozier got caught as it seems FanDuel was flagging large unusual bets on his under Points/Rebounds/Assists. What I don’t get is why? Rozier was due to making $26 million this year in the last year of a nearly $100 million deal. The bets on his under PRA in that game were under $100K. Must’ve been some extortion as the math doesn’t make sense.
I saw earlier that a couple of the NBA players were arraigned this morning, Billups released on $10 million bond. Since this involves the Mafia, what are these guys going to do after they sing like canaries, go into the witness protection program where no one will notice them? lol I think there's a few things in play here (no pun intended). First off, it must have been mighty attractive to make that kind of cash and not have to pay any taxes. The other half to that scenario is that they're so deep in debt from gambling in the first place that they went this route. It's probably a combination of both, but wait for the whole.I have a disease bullshit defense. Before anybody gets on my shit, I'm not saying that gambling doesn't ruin lives, but it's a learned behavior that involves, mot importantly of all, choice. Nobody can help themselves, but people deep in addiction make willful choices every day as to who they're gonna rob, roll, lie to, bilk, cheat, kill, and steal from, don't they. That's a statement, not a question.
I think you nailed it with the extortion bit. It only really makes sense if he's making MASSIVE profits that well exceed his salary OR his life / family is being threatened. Funny how this is all mafia related, yet not a single arrest from any crime families.... I wouldn't be surprised if they locked up these NBA players for life but completely ignore the organized crime aspect of it, because that's how this country operates. Same reason P Diddy is in jail, while a convicted felon is running the country and treated like a god.
There’s no reason to drag Trump into everything you can whether he lives in your head all day or not. There were 30+ arrests including mobsters in both incidents. The NBA coach and player everyone knows obviously grab the headline. https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...bling-scandal-arrested-full-list/86855612007/
I wonder if the bets were made inside USA or outside USA? Also I wonder if they used legal betting or underworld betting?
The Rozier bets were allegedly made on FanDuel and they got flagged by FanDuel which led the NBA to investigate. They cleared him (of course) of any wrongdoing. Check the X clip I posted above. It’s pretty obvious he was playing bad on purpose… But yes, I agree. The total bets placed were less than $100K which makes no sense for a guy worth $150 million. Maybe they were ripping off an off shore bookie.
I was talking to a friend about this yesterday.... "You gotta be deep in some shit or epically stupid to throw away millions to win thousands.."
