Morning Brew Daily - Gambling Scandal Rocks the NBA & Oil Jumps After US Sanctions Russia

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

Episode 699: Neal and Toby unpack the gambling scandal that’s led to the arrests of Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier, which also involves an organized crime family. Then, the US just placed sanctions on two Russian oil producers, further putting pressure on Putin. Also, Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who pleaded guilty for money laundering in 2023. Meanwhile, the Korean skin care industry gets a boost from a Kardashian. And Google takes another quantum leap towards…quantum computing. Finally, Wall Street starves for the CPI report and Stranger Things finale will be 2 hours. 00:00 - Bye, Clippy. Hi, Mico 3:30 - Gambling scheme shakes NBA 8:45 - US sanctions Russian oil 12:20 - Binance founder gets pardoned 17:30 - Quantum computing power’d 20:15 - Korean skincare boomin’ 24:30 - Sprint Finish! Learn more at disneycampaignmanager.com  Get your MBD live show tickets here! https://www.tinyurl.com/MBD-HOLIDAY  Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠  Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning, Bird Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, you've heard of K-pop, but K-Beauty is right on its heels. Ben basketball hasn't seen a gambling scandal this big since I bet Neil I could beat him in horse. It's Friday, October 24th. Let's ride. Happy Friday, especially to everyone who misses Clippy, because Microsoft is reincarnating its annoying but lovable software assistant nearly 30 years after it debuted.

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All I have to say is how dare you stand where he stood? An expressive avatar blob named Miko. Are you kidding me? Give me an anthropomorphized paperclip or give me death. I do like that they included an Easter egg in homage to Clippy where if you tap Miko a couple of times, it transforms into Clippy. But I guess anything is better than whatever Grock is doing

with its AI chatbot and having these risque anime companions I'm interested to see how people react to Microsoft's blob. I don't know why blob is the de facto, you know, assistant in the AI age right now. If you talk to Chachabit's voice assistant, it's kind of blob-like too. What is with it? Give me something anthropomorphize. They're so cute. Blobs are cute.

Blobs are extremely cute. Have you seen Clippy with no? Actually, Clippy was really annoying. Maybe I'm just reversing my whole stance on it all, but I just don't think you can replace an iconic figure such as Clippy with something like. Like a blob. All right. And now we're from our sponsor, Disney campaign manager.

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Refresh your wireless with Visible. Tap the banner to switch today. Terms apply, limited time offer subject to change. See Visible.com for plan features and network management details. The NBA has been back for less than a week, and it's already embroiled in a massive gambling scandal bigger than Victor Wambin Yombo will ever be. Federal agents arrested Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Guard. Federal agents arrested Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Guard Terry Rozier, along with 30 other people yesterday morning as part of two sweeping investigations into illegal sports betting and a mafia-linked poker ring. First up, prosecutors alleged that Rozier tipped off members of a betting ring that he would leave a game early, allowing them to make money on prop bets that depended on his performance.

In the game under investigation, which took place back in 2023, Rozier played just nine minutes and scored five points after averaging over 35 minutes in 21 points that season. Separately, Chauncey Billups, an NBA champion, Hall of Famer and current coach in Portland was allegedly conspiring with the literal mafia to participate in rigged poker game. According to prosecutors, this was a Hollywood-level operation, complete with custom-made poker tables fitted with x-ray scanning panels, glasses capable of reading marked cards, and hidden cameras in card trays. Now, this scandal comes as the NBA and most professional sports leave have deeply intertwined themselves in the legal betting ecosystem. And now they have the call coming from inside the house

as multiple high-profile members of the league found themselves wrapped up in a truly massive scandal. This was the most surprising news and the least surprising news you could imagine. In terms of least surprising, the NBA has been embroiled in a growing gambling crisis for the better part of a year. There was another NBA player, Jonte Porter, who was caught up in the same investigation. He was found to have thrown games and played less than he could have in order to spread profits among betters who he spread insider information to. He was banned for the NBA for a lifetime. He can't play in the NBA anymore. And then in terms of it's surprising because it is the nexus of the professional basketball world,

mafia families in New York, and the growing world of online sports betting. Cash Patel, the FBI director, called it the insider trading saga for the NBA. There's massive fraud going on according to the FBI. And the scope of it feels like we've just really scratched the surface. Yeah, it's happening in other sports as well. I mean, I go back to 2023 in the NFL. They suspended 10 players that year alone. Last month, the NCAA banned three basketball players

and announcing he was investigating 13 former men's basketball players as well. I do think some of the fallout from this, because the Terry Rozier aspect of it, that is tied to prop bets, which are individual bets on a player's performance. It's actually a lot easier to rig prop bets than it is to throw an entire game. It's a team sport, so you can only do so much to influence the game's outcome one way

or the other. But if you say, I'm going to bet the under on your points, Terry Rozier, and then he checks himself out of the game and those unders start to hit, that's become a conduit for a lot of these illegal betting schemes

because it's just so easily to influence a single player's performance. So I do think you might see the NBA start to tighten rules on injury and participation reporting before games so betters don't have access to insider information, privileged information, and it's something that everyone can

have. So that might be some of the fallout you see from this is maybe a crackdown on prop bets and maybe a crackdown on how injuries are reported in the NBA. Pressure is growing on the NBA in particular, Adam Silver, who is the commissioner to address this growing problem. He was on the Pat McAfee show this week. He was talking about specifically prop bets and he said that he is talking with gambling partners for the NBA, which are these huge gambling companies, to quote, pull back some of the prop bets for lower paid players. He said, we have to protect the competitors. We want to protect the environment in the arena of people getting out of hand.

And he needs to address this ASAP because there's growing concern that the integrity of this league and also other professional leagues, as this industry has grown, is being completely compromised. And people are spending millions, billions of dollars betting on these games. And you're not quite sure whether the outcome is actually truly competitive. Meanwhile, this poker game is truly insane. I was going back through the archives. Some poker podcast had tipped people off on this game for a while, even name-dropping Chauncey Billups as far back as 2023 as running a rigged game because it sounds fake.

I mean, what do you mean that people are wearing glasses and contact lenses that it can see marked cars? But that was exactly what was happening. Chauncey Billups and then Damon Jones, which is a former player and coach in the NBA, where quote-unquote, the face cards that were meant to lure in high-profile, you know, celebrities, people with high net worth to the game, whereas everyone else was in on it, and that fish, you know, was taken as the kind of target, and those victims lost its target totaled $7 million. So this was a lot of money passing through this game.

So separate but related case, Chonsie Billups also might be someone who is associated with the gambling probe as well. Just pretty crazy that when this news started dropping like first Terry Rozier, then Chauncey Billups, I think this is not the last we've heard of this scandal either because of how far reaching it apparently was. Moving on, the U.S. just put the two biggest Russian oil companies on the no-fly list, shaking up the global energy market and putting the most intense pressure yet on Vladimir Putin's war economy. On Wednesday, President Trump announced heavy sanctions on Luke oil and Ross Neft,

Russia's two largest oil producers. The goal, according to the White House, was to hit Putin where it hurts, his bank account, in order to squeeze him back to the negotiating table for a ceasefire in Ukraine. And this would hurt. Taxes from Russia's oil and gas industries account for about a quarter of its entire federal budget, which is looking a bit leaky almost four years after it launched its invasion of Ukraine. These sanctions are such a big deal because they could effectively cut off Russia's oil giants from their biggest customers, China and India.

Now, wait, you say, China and India didn't sanction Russia. Why couldn't they just keep buying Russian oil? Well, the U.S. is still the top dog of the global economy, at least in the West, and India and China could be cut off from Western banking systems and access to U.S. dollars if they do business with the Russian companies that are sanctioned by D.C. As former State Department official Eddie Fishman said, a Chinese bank, a UAE oil trader, an Indian refinery, if any of them transact with those Russian companies, they could be hit with U.S. sanctions.

So they're in a bit of a pickle, and so is the oil market, which Toby had a major reaction to this move by Trump. Yeah, the oil market has been pretty stagnant for most of the year. but when this happened, you did see bent crude prices shoot up a little bit, 5% immediately on reaction to this news. Russians' oil shipments have been remarkably resilient and consistent, despite the fact that Western measures have been trying to sanction them since the war on Ukraine broke out. They recently hit a 29-month high, actually, Russian oil shipments, and a big part of that equation is India. India has essentially been Russia's lifeline since 2022. They've bought over a third of its crude imports from Moscow.

So if that relationship starts to get a little shaky, Russia is in a tough spot right now, which was exactly, you know, the point of these actions by the U.S. Yeah, analysts say that the impact of this blacklisting really will depend on three things, how much they are in force. The reaction of India and China, whether they continue to buy from Russia despite the threat of these secondary sanctions and whether Russia can circumvent the measures. I don't think there's a country on earth that is better than circumventing sanctions than Russia. They've been doing it for four years and even longer. They still send plenty of oil to Russia and India, or to China in India. But we'll see the reaction from China and India because they've been getting so much of their oil, as you mentioned, at a real discount because Russian oil is very cheap on the global marketplace right now because it does have this big

target on it. So everything depends on Russia and, or so everything depends on China and India's reaction, how much the U.S. is willing to enforce this. Because if they are, it will be a huge shakeup of global energy flows. And candidly speaking, we were probably going to do a story earlier this week about how cheap oil prices have been before, you know, this 5% jump hit yesterday. And for a long time, cheap oil was kind of a blessing for the U.S. because it just boosts consumers. It cools inflation a little bit. But now that the U.S. is such a big producer and exporter of oil, those cheaper barrel prices actually hits economic activity. So if you are a

export, you don't necessarily want to see oil be cheaper. So it's kind of been a flip over the last couple of decades as U.S. oil production has ramped up and suddenly cheaper oil is not the boon it once was for the economy. Moving on, President Trump was feeling lenient yesterday and passed down a presidential pardon that effectively wipes away one of the most significant crypto crime cases in U.S. history. The beneficiary is none other than Changpeng Xiao, the billionaire founder of the world's largest crypto exchange, Binance. Flashback to 2023 and CZ pleaded guilty to failing to maintain anti-mundering controls at Binance, which allowed sanctioned users and terrorist groups to transact freely. Binance paid a $4.3 billion penalty, a record fine, and CZ was sentenced to four

months in prison before being released late last year. This pardon now sets up a path for Binance to operate legally in the U.S. once more. Why is Trump handing out this particular pardon? The administration has made a number of pro-crypto moves already with the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt. Just find this latest one saying the Biden administration's war on crypto is over. Trump's family also has a number of ties to the crypto world in Binance, particularly. In May of this year, World Liberty Financial, the Trump family's crypto venture, facilitated a $2 billion investment in finance via USD1, the stable coin that it had developed, forcing a partnership between the two companies.

Neil CZ is thought to be the richest person in crypto. with a net worth north of $80 billion. Binance is the biggest crypto exchange on Earth, processing over one-third of all digital currency transactions. If Trump wants to court the crypto crowd, this is the right person to pardon. Though he has received criticism from allies, including the investor Joe Lonsdale,

who said, I love President Trump. This is possibly the greatest administration of my lifetime, except for these pardons. If I'm calling balls and strikes, these are hit by pitches. POTUS has been terribly advised on this. It makes it look like massive. fraud is happening around him in this area. And this dates back to this relationship that CZ has

fostered with the Trump administration and with the Trump family's crypto venture World Liberty Financial. Because ever since he went to jail and then came out of jail four months later, CZ has been making moves in order to cozy up to the Trump administration or the Trump family's crypto company in order to facilitate this, the growth of USD1, which is the cryptocurrency promoted by this particular company. And he's taken a number of moves, including facilitating that $2 billion investment, which caused the price of this cryptocurrency, Trump's cryptocurrency, to move way up in price. So he has been taking these steps.

And now a lot of observers are saying, wait, what is going on here? Is this sort of, what are the ethical considerations of the fact that CZ has been cozying way up to Trump? And now that he's getting the pardon, what is the quid pro cro? Yeah, some of those ties, I'll just mention them here. Teresa Gullian is an ex-SECLoyer who also represents Zach Whitkoff, which is the son of Trump's Middle East advisor, Steve Whitkoff, who is also the business partner of World Liberty Financial. That is kind of the lawyer and lobbyist that CZ has been coising up to. And then also Ches McDowell, he's a lobbyist on Capitol Hill as well, hunting companion of Donald Trump Jr. He and CZ were like appeared together as well. So you are seeing Binance not only back these major business deals. investments in World Liberty Financial, but you're also seeing him just start to get his tentacles or start to cozy up to a lot of people close to Trump's orbit as well, which is why you are

seeing some of these alarm bells, obviously from Democrats, but also from some staunch Trump allies as well, saying this looks a little bit like too intertwined with each other. Maybe we should have some separation here. All right, we're going to take a quick break and come back with our stock and dog of the week. It's Friday, which means it's time for Stock of the Week, Dog of the week, the segment where Toby and I pick one stock that's embracing sweater weather and another that's already looking forward to the spring. But you know what? The sun is setting so much earlier now and we could all use a little more light. Who has time for negativity? So today, we pick two surging stocks to tell you about. Of course, I won the pre-show Quiddish match,

so I get to go first. And my stock of the week is quantum computing companies, which pop yesterday on a report that the U.S. government is considering becoming a shareholder. Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal wrote that several quantum companies are in discussions with the Commerce Department to swap equity stakes for federal funding, sending shares of names like ion Q, Raghetti computing, and D-Wave quantum up at least 7% in trading yesterday. If the deal were to materialize, it would mark the next phase of the Trump administration's unusual interventions into the private markets. Already this year, the U.S. government became the largest shareholder of Intel, a key chipmaker, and scooped up major stakes in American companies that mine rare earth minerals. The theme that ties all these government

targets together, they are the infantry soldiers in the technological arms race between the U.S. and China. And quantum computing is one of those battle lines. This tech, while still experimental, has the ability to make every aspect of the economy more efficient by solving complex problems in the fraction of a time it would take a classical computer, unlocking drug discoveries and creating new materials. Just this week, Google turned heads when it showed a quantum computer can run 13,000 times faster than traditional computers. Toby, 2025 has been the year of quantum, and this would put the cherry on top. Yeah, unfortunately, some of that quantum mania was squashed in the afternoon, though, when officials threw cold water on the idea,

a spokesperson did say in a statement, the comments department is not currently negotiating equity stakes with quantum computing companies. The denial came after that Wall Street Journal report came out. They did say that maybe it wouldn't be equity stakes, but more in the form of a loan, so it's not actually taking direct, becoming a direct shareholder in the company. It did kind of cut short the rally for these companies, but most of them did end up the day still in the positives because I think the bull cases here long term,

the government thinks that this is a critical industry, much like rare earths, much like chip manufacturing, and so they will send a little support in investment their way. The hype train has been maybe a little off the rails this past year because a lot of these companies do not make any revenue. They say so themselves. A lot of these CEOs come up and say on earning skills, hey, we're not expecting profitability in this decade for the most part.

This technology still needs a long time to mature. But if you want to skate where the puck is going, you say maybe this is a critical industry going forward. Quantum computing stocks have been on a roller coaster this year. I mean, as soon as we finish the show, I see you go and see and look into quantum stocks. And they're either up 20% or down 20% every single day. Overall, they have been surging this year. D-Wave is one name that's up 223.

Raghetti is up 98%. They are very, very active in terms of the retail trading community. People love trading these stocks. They are included in the Beamstock ETF that was just introduced a few weeks ago. So these are stocks that people are trading like crazy. And now that the U.S. government has taken an eye, they're probably only going to be even more popular among the individual investor crowd. My stock in the week is APR, not APR as an annual percentage rate on your car loan. APR, as in South Korea's most valuable cosmetics group. APR's market cap reached $6 billion this week, surging past legacy giants in Korea

and nearly on par with America's Elf Beauty. The impetus behind its rise is a $180 facial gadget called the Booster Pro, which combines electric microcurrents and LED light therapy, sort of like a wand for smooth skin. All it took was a Kylie Jenner endorsement, literally a 15-second video on TikTok, to spark a global sales boom.

APR taking over the mantle as the most viable cosmetics company in cosmetics craze Korea is significant because it demonstrates a shift in consumer behavior with buyers increasingly investing in beauty tech rather than just the high-end creams that hair and makeup are putting on Neil and I. Neil, this company is a rocket ship. It's 7X revenue in six years from 70 million in 2018 to nearly 500 million in 2024, all led by Kim Biong, Houn, a 36-year-old. entrepreneur who used to be an app developer before he became a skin care mogul. I hadn't heard of this

company, though, obviously, but I'm looking at her skin right now. We could use a little APR in our lives. Toby, tell me you haven't heard of this company. Look at your glow. You've definitely been using the booster pro over the past few months. Yeah, this billionaire, the CEO of this company, you know, he doesn't have that big ambitions. He said only we want to be essentially like the early stages of Apple when they first started with the iPhone. He's, you know, setting the bar real low. It is an absolute rocket ship as K Beauty is overall. And I don't think it's a coincidence that this company got a huge pop from a TikTok video because K Beauty and TikTok have like gone together like peanut butter and jelly is the top beauty category on TikTok shop with 132% growth

in 2025. There is a vibrant ecosystem of small companies paired with large contract manufacturers in South Korea. Put that all together on TikTok. And you have a recipe for absolute booming growth. And they kind of run the same fast fashion playbook that Shian and Tameu run, which is they see viral trends and hop on them very, very quickly. Because if you are so integrated with TikTok, you can see something start to bubble up and then create a product that serves that trend. One of the trends that I think that you should keep an eye on

and something that APR has her eye on is salmon sperm facials, which unfortunately I did look up. It's supposed to be good at hydrating, pumping, and all around euthifying your face. It takes DNA extracted from salmon sperm. It's called polynucleotides, and you inject it with a needle under your skin. This is something that another Kardashian swears by Kim Kardashian. I did read a Vogue article, and apparently it works. The author went and did and said it hurts when you do it, but then a few weeks later,

I was getting a lot of compliments on your skin. This is the next frontier for APR. They want to, you know, roll out something that clinicians can inject into people looking to euthify their skin. So they have a $180 magic wand that utifies your face. to go along with an $1,000 injectable salmon sperm facial. How could you bet against this company? Well, Toby, you eat salmon row.

Why don't you just start injecting yourself with salmon sperm, just everything from the salmon? No, South Korea is an absolute rocket ship in terms of cosmetics. It just recently topped France with exports of more than $10 billion to become the second biggest exporter to the United States in terms of cosmetics. All right, let's sprint to the finish with some final headlines. this morning, after an economic data blackout of more than three weeks, a ray of sun will pierce through the clouds, the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation in the U.S. economy in September.

The inflation report is like putting a couple of hot pizza pies in front of kids who just finished a soccer game. Because of the government's shutdown, ravenous central bankers and investors have been relying on scraps to tell them how the economy has been doing this fall. They shouldn't get used to it as long as the shutdown is going on. The CPI release is a one-off after the Bureau of Labor Services. statistics called staff back into the office to calculate the 26 cost of living adjustment for Social Security, which requires inflation data.

As for the inflation report itself, analysts expect prices rose at a faster than normal 0.4% rate last month, raising annual inflation to 3.1%. That'd be the fastest pace in more than a year. Yeah, as the market is parsing through inflation data, which great metaphor, by the way, made me hungry, the soccer game and the pizza I've been there before. But as they're dealing with that, they're also dealing with late last night. President Trump announced he's terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an ad, actually. The ad used Ronald Reagan's voice to criticize tariffs. It's from a 1987 address where he warned that tariffs can seem patriotic, but actually hurt every American worker and consumer. That rubbed Trump the wrong way. So he actually said, we're breaking off all talks once more. So it'll be interesting to see how the market processes is both the first. data they've had in weeks and also this news that negotiations with Canada have broken down. And finally on this Friday, Netflix wants to help you with your New Year's Eve plans.

The streamer is going to put the series finale of Stranger Things in theaters starting December 31st at 8 p.m. Eastern and running through New Year's Day. And you'll get your money's worth because the final episode to a series that started all the way back in 2016 is going to be two hours long. It'll mark the first time Netflix has ever given an episode of one of its TV series a theatrical release and represents a concession to the Stranger Things creators who really wanted to make this happen to have the shows fans watch the last episode together communally. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things will arrive November 26th the day before Thanksgiving. I'm very curious about this because personally I lost the Stranger Things plot years ago because

it's just taken absolutely so long. The joke is that these are middle schoolers who are all in their mid-20s now because of how long this series has taken to produce. So I wonder, people are going to turn out for the show. But if anyone can do it, create this cultural moment. Netflix can. And candidly, people do love dressing up and going to the movies and having, like, I mean, look at the heiress too, or people who are within a certain fandom do love these big fan serving moments.

And just from the creator's perspective, some of the shows creators, Matt Duffer said, people don't get to experience how much time and effort is spent on sound and picture. And usually they're consuming it on their phones or on their laptops or on their TVs. They're not getting the full experience of it. So I understand from their perspective, but I am just very curious to see how many people turn out for this, especially for a TV series that's just stretched on forever and ever. It worked for Netflix for K-pop Demon Hunters.

So over the summer, Netflix had this, you know, they had their biggest movie ever, K-pop Demon Hunters on Netflix streaming service. People watched that, and then they put it in theaters for one weekend. It became the biggest movie in the entire country for that weekend, led the box office. Then they took it off, and people said, we want more.

So now they're actually going to put it back in three major chains, AMC, Regal, and Cinemark over Halloween weekend. So K-pop Demon Hunters is coming back. I mean, everything Korean is coming up. We started with skincare, you know, random with K-pop Demon Hunters, don't bet against Korea. All right, that is all the time we have. Thanks so much for starting your morning with us and have a wonderful Friday and an even better weekend. If you have any feedback on today's episode, send a note to Morningbrewdaily at morningbrew.com. Let's roll the credits.

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