Chauncey Billiups and Rozier got arrested by the FBI on gambling charges.

[Kblaze8855]

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Between this and Kawhi, David Stern would be kicking the league's ass right now. Adam Silver is just going to continue to be a *****.

[Kblaze8855]

I thought the Rozier investigation was over But apparently not. I didn’t even hear about Billups. This is escalating rather quickly…

They can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The gambling is legal and that’s that. So there will always be money available to people willing to get it but damn…

How much money makes it worth it for a guy who made 100 million, has a 7 figure coaching job, and a locked up 200K a year pension to retire on?

Maybe the “mob” had something on him?

Whatever it is..I’m sure it’s just the start.

[Real Men Wear Green]

We knew about Rozier. Sad to hear this about Billups.

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I thought the Rozier investigation was over But apparently not. I didn’t even hear about Billups. This is escalating rather quickly…

They can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The gambling is legal and that’s that. So there will always be money available to people willing to get it but damn…

How much money makes it worth it for a guy who made 100 million, has a 7 figure coaching job, and a locked up 200K a year pension to retire on?

Maybe the “mob” had something on him?

Whatever it is..I’m sure it’s just the start.

Jordan made far more than that and he had a major gambling problem and you know damn good and well that's why he stepped away from the game for a year.

Taking inflation into account Jordan was probably making that in 1 year and he STILL had a problem.

Gambling problems aren't just for people that have $5 in their checking account.

[Kblaze8855]

Manipulation of Minutes to guarantee a payout isn’t gambling. It isn’t gambling if you can just decide the outcome. A coach can absolutely make himself win. It’s not gambling if Jordan could just have someone walk up to the hole and lay his ball next to it. It’s just scamming.

Unless your suggestion is, he got behind gambling on other things and whoever he’s in debt to forced him to rig Something for them. Which could be one of the things someone could have on him that I speculated about.

This wouldn’t be regular gambling addiction shit. It would be a convoluted criminal Enterprise. Of course, if they have proof, he would have to go the gambling addiction route and claim he needed help and all that, but it wouldn’t be that simple in reality I suspect.

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Yeah, you're right.

Also I was wrong about Jordan making that much in 1993. His big paydays didn't start till the second threepeat.

Anyways...

We'll have to see the exact outcomes of the criminal proceedings to know what they did, but yes, if they are fixing games that is scamming.

I'm sure Jordan was more like Pete Rose. Always betting on himself to win.

[1987_Lakers]

wtf

[jayfan]

**It seems that the Billups stuff is about illegal poker games rather than nba games.**


But we'll see.

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[GOBB]

I’ll wait for more information. Malik Beasley lost millions and charges were dropped

[Kblaze8855]

If they’re really gonna spend half a year grabbing up athletes for involvement in the executive games I know Tony is rolling in his grave.

Just cheap headlines.

I almost hope it’s real gambling. If it’s poker it’s a total waste of the governments investment almost no matter who else they catch in the net.

Even “real” criminals…you should be able to catch them doing something real.

[Kblaze8855]

I’ll wait for more information. Malik Beasley lost millions and charges were dropped

Abc is saying it’s a mafia related poker game and rozier is a separate but related case.

Theyre really out here breaking up poker games and calling it news.

[1987_Lakers]

**It seems that the Billups stuff is about illegal poker games rather than nba games.**


But we'll see.

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If that is the case this is a nothing burger, for a second I for sure thought Billups was gambling on games Pete Rose style.

[Kblaze8855]

They got Damon Jones too.




The director of the fbi is really about to get on tv and tell us they spent millions to catch nba people playing poker in mob backed games.