Gambling Scandal

[ExiledInIllinois]

6 hours ago, boyst said:

The mafia paid the helicopter to fly in that direction causing a drift of the ball

You didn't see the back judge reach into his pocket to almost throw the flag, when it went "wide right"... Ah, nevermind!😆

 

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Edited yesterday at 12:04 AM by ExiledInIllinois

[Chaos]

6 hours ago, Albany,n.y. said:

I've always wondered why the NBA allows LeBron to do commercials for DraftKings gambling site.  

At least the NFL wouldn't allow an active player to do gambling ads. 

The NBA has no moral compass

[thenorthremembers]

9 hours ago, Chaos said:

The NBA has no moral compass

 

Had the TV on while working yesterday.  Every other commercial was a draft kings or fanduel ad featuring the NBA.  You think they'd keep those quiet for a few days.

[stuvian]

The NBA is this side of the Harlem Globetrotters. This greed implosion will eventually affect the NFL. It's just never enough money for some people. After all the subsidized stadia, the seat licenses, the TV deals and Europe games it's still not enough. 

[muppy]

13 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

I’m generally not a conspiracy theorist, but the thought that legalized gambling has affected the game is gaining traction amongst a large portion of the fan base, and I don’t think the league can continue to ignore it. 

to the black I am not either.

 

But to the red I will be watching to see if you are right.   There is just too much potential profits for criminal types not be enticed  to try. 

 

The technology tn poker games to do it that I read about does boggle my mind though.  That is some very high tech chit. Dang.

 

To think the NFL could be guilty in any way of fixing games makes me queasy.  That would be humans doing the dirty. BLECH The ramifications TERRIBLE. Yes Im clutching my pearls on this one not gonna lie. It would be soooo bad.

Edited 13 hours ago by muppy

[Augie]

9 hours ago, stuvian said:

The NBA is this side of the Harlem Globetrotters. This greed implosion will eventually affect the NFL. It's just never enough money for some people. After all the subsidized stadia, the seat licenses, the TV deals and Europe games it's still not enough. 

 

Let us not forget the age old tradition of kicking off the NFL season from Sao Paulo, Brazil! 

 

My sister lives in Wisconsin and they regularly attend basketball games at a small college most of us have never heard of. These are young people who are truly playing for the love of the sport. It may not be the best basketball you can see, but it is pure and genuine, and that matters to me. 

 

 

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Edited 4 hours ago by Augie

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Chauncey Billups says that he is innocent of all the gambling charges.

 

And he says that the odds are 3:1 that the case will never go to trial.

[dpberr]

I think it's a big deal, but I think gambling has been a somewhat contained problem in the NBA because this kind of gambling used to be *just* an organized crime thing.  

 

I've always been part of the club that believes Jordan's foray into baseball was because the NBA either caught him betting on games or giving insider information to his father, and for very obvious reasons, couldn't banish the league's most popular player at the apex of the Bulls dominance.  Would have brought down the NBA, especially on the heels of Magic's HIV announcement.  

 

Pre-internet, I think it was somewhat easier to cover things up.

 

[SoTier]

16 hours ago, Augie said:

These guys have already made tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions. Did they piss all that away already, or are they just so arrogant that they think they are above consequences? Either way, they have to be complete idiots. They deserve what they get, and I hope it’s a heavy price. I haven’t watched the NBA in more than a decade, and I don’t feel I’ve missed anything. 

 

The NFL is not far behind the NBA in my book. 

 

Why do we regularly see/read/hear of multimillionaires/billionaires who engage in insider trading, fraud, Ponzi schemes or even commit violent crimes in order to make more money?   Some people are just never satisfied with what they have, no matter how much that might be, and have to accumulate more by whatever means necessary.   They have always been around in human history, and we frequently label them "great" as in Alexander the Great, Charlemagne, Ghengis Khan, Napoleon.  American bankers and industrialists like John D Rockefeller, Jay Gould, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, etc are venerated figures.

 

 

[Bill from NYC]

The "Mafia" that we heard of in the past has been considerably weakened. The feds nail them with the RICO Act, they face huge sentences, rat each other out, and do pod casts. If (or most likely when) an NFL game is fixed, it will be fixed by people MUCH more powerful than what is left of the Mafia. 

 

The best way to make money betting NFL football would be to find out which home games Taylor Swift will be attending (which I doubt is possible) and bet on the Chiefs. The NFL has the male audience sewed up. Now the NFL wants to make further inroads with women in order for the sponsors to make more money and pay more for advertisements.

 

To think that no outcome of any NFL games were ever influenced by the presence of Taylor Swift would be naive imo. We are talking about billions of dollars here, not seven million. And btw I have nothing at all against Taylor Swift. 

 

Blast away but this is jmo.

[ChevyVanMiller]

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

8 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said:

Chauncey Billups says that he is innocent of all the gambling charges.

 

And he says that the odds are 3:1 that the case will never go to trial.

Art Schlister approves 

[CookieG]

Former Columbo Capo, Michael Franzese, and creator of one of the best Mafia scams ever, weighs in.

 

 

He does provide a unique perspective.