The Deep 3 Podcast - The NBA Has A Gambling Problem...
Episode Date: October 23, 2025Reacting to the NBA's newest scandal involving the arrest of Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups! #nba Check out the TD3 merch: https://the-deep-3-shop.fourthwall.com/ Listen on Spotify!: https://ope...n.spotify.com/show/3elbbqVumwqz8wlIdknsLW Listen on Apple Podcasts!: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-3-podcast/id1657940794 Follow us on TikTok!: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedeepthree Follow us on Instagram!: https://www.instagram.com/thedeep3podcast/ Isaac's twitter: https://twitter.com/byisaacg Mo's twitter: https://twitter.com/Mojo99_ Donnavan's twitter: https://twitter.com/Dsmoot3D Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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                                        I thought that we were going to be up here today.
                                         
                                        Talk about basketball.
                                         
                                        To talk about Victor Wimbunyama, to talk about Luca Dachshan having no help.
                                         
                                        But instead, we are here to talk about criminals.
                                         
    
                                        RICO.
                                         
                                        Organized crime.
                                         
                                        Charges.
                                         
                                        International mafias.
                                         
                                        Financial tomfoolery.
                                         
                                        As you guys see my title, we're here.
                                         
                                        Before we record the main episode for this week, before we get to reacting to everything's first game, we got to react to some breaking news.
                                         
                                        Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups have been arrested.
                                         
    
                                        They are in federal custody by the FBI.
                                         
                                        For two, apparently unrelated, but maybe also kind of related.
                                         
                                        We don't know for sure.
                                         
                                        Gambling, scandals.
                                         
                                        Tare Ruggier for the previously reported scandal where he was doing some Jonté Porta shit,
                                         
                                        doing some throwing games directly related to basketball, gambling probes.
                                         
                                        And Chonsie Billups is doing some Gilbert Arena shit,
                                         
                                        mafia-related, poker game-related scandals.
                                         
    
                                        What was your first reaction to seeing the Fed doing a sweep?
                                         
                                        Yo, I didn't know the mafia was this relevant, 25, man.
                                         
                                        Like, they got real life motion still.
                                         
                                        Whoa.
                                         
                                        I'm blown.
                                         
                                        No, facts.
                                         
                                        If we were doing winners and losers for the first week of the NBA season, Mafia.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        Mafia culture is back up.
                                         
                                        Hey, grandpathy, you're smiling like a mug right now, man.
                                         
                                        They're out here.
                                         
                                        Because in the press conference, they said that, listen, they've been running this for years.
                                         
                                        They've arrested multiple people across multiple states.
                                         
                                        Every mafia apparently had some connection to this.
                                         
                                        But my first thought was like, yo, the season.
                                         
                                        Just started two days ago.
                                         
    
                                        Like, we are three days in.
                                         
                                        There had not been three days of NBA basketball being played,
                                         
                                        and the head coach for the Portland Trail Blazers is in federal custody.
                                         
                                        This should not be happening.
                                         
                                        And it is, it's insane.
                                         
                                        My first thought was that's why he was running that pick and roll defense two years ago.
                                         
                                        That's why he was playing those lineups two years ago.
                                         
                                        That makes all the sense in the world.
                                         
    
                                        I was up here for two years on the show saying,
                                         
                                        is Chauncey Bullock's a serious coach?
                                         
                                        Do, is everybody aware that he's been got off over the past two years?
                                         
                                        Nobody notices, and I saw the headlines
                                         
                                        and I was like, I understand it now.
                                         
                                        Then it came out as poker related.
                                         
                                        It's not actually Terry Rosier timing.
                                         
                                        So it's not bad.
                                         
    
                                        But that's where my mind went because these two names being connected to this
                                         
                                        are the funniest names that this could have been.
                                         
                                        Terry Rozier being a player who got traded to the Miami Heat
                                         
                                        and has done nothing but been terrible since then,
                                         
                                        has done nothing but make Heat fans regret
                                         
                                        giving up a 2027 first-on pick for him.
                                         
                                        And he's someone who we thought was a genuine, fantastic addition
                                         
                                        considering all the swings and misses that they made prior year.
                                         
    
                                        years prior. Yeah. So people see that and they're like, I knew his ass was gambling. That makes
                                         
                                        sense. And then Chauncey Billis was a bad coach for so long. And then now they finally got
                                         
                                        good the past, I don't know, seven months of the seasons combined into last year into this
                                         
                                        year. Now this is unfortunate. They're losing that. Much to get into here. Where do y'all
                                         
                                        want to begin? I mean, okay, so like, we obviously, we have, we just have to go big picture
                                         
                                        because this is like the, because you have Chauncey Billups. You have, you have, you have
                                         
                                        Rosier.
                                         
                                        Damon Jones,
                                         
    
                                        former NBA player
                                         
                                        was also
                                         
                                        involved in this.
                                         
                                        Jonte Porter
                                         
                                        got a lifetime ban
                                         
                                        Lee Beasley
                                         
                                        missed out on a bag
                                         
                                        because he was the center
                                         
    
                                        of a gambling probe
                                         
                                        like in the in the two
                                         
                                        or three years
                                         
                                        since the NBA
                                         
                                        has like really,
                                         
                                        really just like
                                         
                                        opened up
                                         
                                        their,
                                         
    
                                        their doors
                                         
                                        to the gambling sphere.
                                         
                                        Even now like
                                         
                                        Vandual is,
                                         
                                        it's like integrated
                                         
                                        into league pass
                                         
                                        to where you can bet
                                         
                                        on games
                                         
    
                                        and like do do you know
                                         
                                        do prop vets
                                         
                                        within games.
                                         
                                        As they have done this every single year, you are starting to see more and more either reports or allegations or people are actually getting caught up in gambling stuff.
                                         
                                        And so for the league that has had gambling scandals before, that has always had some type of controversy attached to it, it's like if I'm Adam Silver, this is the worst case scenario.
                                         
                                        Yeah, especially, obviously people are drawn those connections, right?
                                         
                                        And it's like, my mind goes to, yes, it's probably not a coincidence that these players are seeing more gambling in their league and maybe do.
                                         
                                        doing some more activities.
                                         
    
                                        My mind goes to, has this always been happening?
                                         
                                        And there's more eyeballs now because the bigger awareness, like you're saying,
                                         
                                        everywhere you look is sports betting.
                                         
                                        Maybe more people are thinking about sports betting looking at this.
                                         
                                        Because everything we're seeing about these things sounds like stuff that maybe NBA players
                                         
                                        or athletes have been doing for a long time across history that made people just now noticing.
                                         
                                        Yeah, for sure.
                                         
                                        I 110% agree with you.
                                         
    
                                        Bro, one thing that my mind goes to, I don't know why I think like this,
                                         
                                        Maybe it's just like my definitive purpose on earth,
                                         
                                        which is defend Michael LeBron James,
                                         
                                        but if Michael Jordan was in the lead today,
                                         
                                        he would not survive this pirate because of this type of shit right here.
                                         
                                        He would 110% be participating in this.
                                         
                                        Allegedly.
                                         
                                        Chanty Belos and Rozier have in place on leave
                                         
    
                                        indefinitely from their respective teams.
                                         
                                        So they said, you're going to be out of here
                                         
                                        while we figure this out.
                                         
                                        Tiago Splitter, new interim head coach of the Trailblazers.
                                         
                                        That's a fun, mad loop to see.
                                         
                                        But yeah, obviously,
                                         
                                        the discourse goes to
                                         
                                        you got what you asked for, right, with
                                         
    
                                        the gambling stuff, that you wanted to have
                                         
                                        this influx of money. This is kind of just where
                                         
                                        sports media is, where the sports landscape is.
                                         
                                        I said media, not even that, where sports is,
                                         
                                        right? The next wave of making these teams
                                         
                                        more and more profitable, which is the MO
                                         
                                        of any organized business in
                                         
                                        America and any capital societies, continue to
                                         
    
                                        become more and more profitable, make the salaries go up,
                                         
                                        make the profits go up.
                                         
                                        Betting is the untapped potential
                                         
                                        that these past five years have been teams
                                         
                                        tapping into that potential, making that the new
                                         
                                        era the toothpaste out the tube is the phrasing people always use and it's 100% correct right we're
                                         
                                        kind of in a never go back from this gambling society it'll always be a part of sports i don't know about
                                         
                                        y'all every high school friend i have that's like not sports fans the degree we are especially us like
                                         
    
                                        you know it's our living they're just casual sports fans i consume it going watch monday night football
                                         
                                        all they fucking talk about is sports betting all they talk about is sending their slips in that makes
                                         
                                        it fun for people that's like the new mode of enjoyment for watching sports this is where we are at it we're at now
                                         
                                        And this is going to continue to be an ever-present part of, I guess, criminal activity in sports.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And the interesting part about it and like why.
                                         
                                        Because like, and like, first of all, we've talked about about gambling before on both on both shows.
                                         
                                        We talked about like bed set that we're making this and that.
                                         
    
                                        And so like we've done that before, probably still going to do it.
                                         
                                        Right.
                                         
                                        Yeah, we're not NBA players.
                                         
                                        We're for sure.
                                         
                                        We've done deals of underdog fantasy before.
                                         
                                        We've done deals with a sleeper before.
                                         
                                        I'm sure when we're currently in a situation with our contract where we're in a very specific type of circumstances of show that we're like the only sports media show that doesn't need to do a sports book thing.
                                         
                                        I'm sure that are changed eventually.
                                         
    
                                        So we will be no different that like this is where this is like the main way to be a profitable sports media company now.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        The difference is we're not players.
                                         
                                        We're not actual coaches who can actually affect the game.
                                         
                                        When I see someone like Terro's year happen, it's like, okay, like that's been happening over the last, what year, year and a half where he's been investigated.
                                         
                                        by the NBA bare minimum.
                                         
                                        But for Chauncey Billups,
                                         
                                        the actual head coach to be involved with,
                                         
    
                                        not necessarily,
                                         
                                        it's not yet to where we know
                                         
                                        the game of basketball,
                                         
                                        outside of basketball,
                                         
                                        you're fucking with the integrity of the league
                                         
                                        just adjacently, you know,
                                         
                                        because you hold such a,
                                         
                                        you're held to a higher degree
                                         
    
                                        than anyone else in the NBA society.
                                         
                                        Yeah,
                                         
                                        and even though Chauncey Billups thing
                                         
                                        isn't like the stare at risk thing
                                         
                                        where he's apparently ruining the integrity of the game,
                                         
                                        it doesn't help the PR of the game.
                                         
                                        Exactly.
                                         
                                        any type of monetary gambling related scandals
                                         
    
                                        at this current time
                                         
                                        where we're opening these floodgates.
                                         
                                        But I guess we can go case by case
                                         
                                        and what we know about both these players
                                         
                                        and Damon Jones.
                                         
                                        Terry Rozier allegedly had over 200K
                                         
                                        delivered to his home after betters cashed in on his unders
                                         
                                        per the athletic.
                                         
    
                                        $200,000 in cash.
                                         
                                        This dumb motherfucker had a bag of cash
                                         
                                        sent to his home address
                                         
                                        that he legally resides in.
                                         
                                        This is a stupid criminal.
                                         
                                        They should have left this ass in Charlotte.
                                         
                                        This is a stupid criminal.
                                         
                                        This isn't even just that he's bad.
                                         
    
                                        He's dumb and bad.
                                         
                                        on March 23
                                         
                                        Rozier while playing for the Hornets
                                         
                                        Let others close to him know
                                         
                                        That he planned to leave early with an injury
                                         
                                        Associates bet more than 200 K in Rozier's under
                                         
                                        And winnings were delivered to Roseer's home
                                         
                                        The indictment alleges
                                         
    
                                        To his home
                                         
                                        Also, and this is the
                                         
                                        This is the frustrating part about a lot of this
                                         
                                        If you are not LeBron James, Steph Curry
                                         
                                        You are not the best players in the world
                                         
                                        Do you not think
                                         
                                        That it's going to be suspicious
                                         
                                        when on a random day,
                                         
    
                                        $15 million comes in on your under.
                                         
                                        Like, bro, you're Terry Rozier, you're a good player.
                                         
                                        You are very valuable, right?
                                         
                                        Especially whenever you are at your peak.
                                         
                                        But you're trying to run these games every single day.
                                         
                                        It's like, all right, you know, we get two slips for a Terry Rozier under.
                                         
                                        Nobody likes to bet unders in the first place, right?
                                         
                                        If anybody's going to bet on Terry Rozier, it's going to be an over.
                                         
    
                                        And so randomly, you just get this crazy spike because you and your homies are putting in,
                                         
                                        you know, millions of dollars.
                                         
                                        That's insane.
                                         
                                        Do you think they investigated at Calcusba at the end of last year when he was so god-awful,
                                         
                                        everybody kept betting his under's?
                                         
                                        They'll investigate him now.
                                         
                                        Genuine question.
                                         
                                        I'm like the most nubious out of us all when it comes to betting.
                                         
    
                                        Who creates these like props and these slips?
                                         
                                        Is it just like a collective thing that a few people initially start and or just like random
                                         
                                        things that people place down and as time goes on and catches like a big wave and that's
                                         
                                        like the proper bed of the day?
                                         
                                        Are these created?
                                         
                                        So when you say like like who makes the odds?
                                         
                                        Who makes, yeah, like, who makes, like, the standards?
                                         
                                        There's individual sports books, right?
                                         
    
                                        There's Fanduller, Draft Kings, there's fucking Rainbett
                                         
                                        if you want to get into the shady ones.
                                         
                                        There's a million places.
                                         
                                        Oh, you're in the gutter?
                                         
                                        What the fuck?
                                         
                                        Are you not on Twitter?
                                         
                                        You never seen this shit?
                                         
                                        They spam that on every single thing.
                                         
    
                                        Oh, Rainbet, okay, okay.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        Listen, if you've seen any streamer online that takes that, whatever.
                                         
                                        Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                        They all have, like, their individual lines, right?
                                         
                                        And they have their own individual in-house teams that, like,
                                         
                                        monitor the lines if players go out, they change the odds.
                                         
                                        They kind of have their own in-house people that monitor
                                         
    
                                        illegal activity there.
                                         
                                        So some of these, like,
                                         
                                        John T. Porter, I think was on, like, I think it was
                                         
                                        Fandle. I think he was having his friend sheet on the
                                         
                                        biggest league partner
                                         
                                        gambling network
                                         
                                        that obviously has the most eyeballs and the most
                                         
                                        security. So that was dumb as hell.
                                         
    
                                        I don't know where this is coming from for the
                                         
                                        Terry Rozier thing. It was probably any one of these
                                         
                                        companies. But yeah, it's like that. They pick an app
                                         
                                        wherever, I'm guessing his fucking friends. They're
                                         
                                        betting hub of choice. And then they
                                         
                                        say, I'm going to go take a dive
                                         
                                        in this game. I'm going to play eight minutes. My foot's going to hurt.
                                         
                                        So I bet my under is this day.
                                         
    
                                        And it could be any app.
                                         
                                        It could be us on underdog sports.
                                         
                                        Like, you know, it could be any single one.
                                         
                                        Gotcha.
                                         
                                        Gotcha.
                                         
                                        Okay.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So that's what's going on with Terry.
                                         
    
                                        And I think like, and it's, I mean, it's the same thing that happened, you know,
                                         
                                        that happened with John T.
                                         
                                        Porter.
                                         
                                        It's the same thing where, and that one was even crazy because you had like Discord
                                         
                                        messages like, man, I'm going to do this, you know, on such and such time.
                                         
                                        I think my eyes hurting.
                                         
                                        Like, I'm going to sit out.
                                         
                                        Dumb-ass criminals.
                                         
    
                                        What are they doing?
                                         
                                        leaving evidence in a discord
                                         
                                        what do they think is secure brother
                                         
                                        I'm just so confused
                                         
                                        like in order to
                                         
                                        sabotage your actual job
                                         
                                        like this that must mean you did some
                                         
                                        big time shit with big time
                                         
    
                                        people who do big time disgusting things
                                         
                                        when it comes to this
                                         
                                        real life world that we live in
                                         
                                        he makes 26 million dollars a year
                                         
                                        obviously he probably doesn't pocket that in the day
                                         
                                        because of taxes and all that
                                         
                                        bare middle he makes like 10 million dollars
                                         
                                        11 million dollars a year
                                         
    
                                        off the risk
                                         
                                        So to gamble for such a, like, minuscule amount tells me that you have to have, like, some insane personal issues that just amounts to an obscene amount of debt.
                                         
                                        Yeah, you mentioned, I don't even know what's that.
                                         
                                        I think it's the opposite.
                                         
                                        You mentioned if you're doing this, you had to be with some, like, big-time individuals and crazy stuff.
                                         
                                        It's the complete opposite.
                                         
                                        It is, I think, a lack of self-control and doing it for the love of the game because you think you won't get caught.
                                         
                                        It is just silly choices that I'm sure he did not think would come to this.
                                         
    
                                        He thought nobody would notice because how could somebody notice that?
                                         
                                        It's totally believable my foot would hurt, right?
                                         
                                        I come out of games all the time.
                                         
                                        Nobody's going to question that.
                                         
                                        And they overlook the details.
                                         
                                        They overlook the eyeballs that are on them.
                                         
                                        Overlooked the eyeballs that are on the NBA,
                                         
                                        on sports gambling, all this stuff
                                         
    
                                        because they think it's an easy lick
                                         
                                        to get a quick little bit of change.
                                         
                                        He said, I'm Terry Rozier.
                                         
                                        Ain't nobody going to get a fuck.
                                         
                                        Literally, he thinks it's insignificant
                                         
                                        and like how can somebody tell?
                                         
                                        And you know what's crazy?
                                         
                                        I bet for most of the time,
                                         
    
                                        this happens all the time and they're right.
                                         
                                        I bet this happens constantly.
                                         
                                        And they're right, nobody notices.
                                         
                                        I bet this happened for decades, right?
                                         
                                        People said,
                                         
                                        people were saying you let the sports gambling into the NBA you're getting more of this I don't think
                                         
                                        that's the case I think people are just getting caught now it's a few cases where we're just seeing
                                         
                                        what's probably always been going on yeah and it's that's that's that's the worst part about it is
                                         
    
                                        that if like I think you're I think you're right I think like obviously gambling is not new I'm
                                         
                                        sure there have been you know players gambling and venting and doing all this stuff for for years
                                         
                                        but the integrity of the game that like is such a
                                         
                                        such a weird like phrase and it's really it's not even the integrity of the game it's the illusion
                                         
                                        of the integrity of the game you can't have people think that what you're doing is wwe and that
                                         
                                        it's like scripted entertainment like that that at that point for actual competition then everything
                                         
                                        else you know goes out the window and so like for the NBA obviously there's mad dollars being
                                         
                                        put into into the league because of the gambling partners and so obviously you know money talks
                                         
    
                                        and you you know you have to do what you have to do but for adam's over that's the
                                         
                                        that's the biggest thing for him and for the league is to figure out is there a way that you can make the that you can make the league feel secure in a sense and feel like on a nightly basis you know that that the that the product isn't being compromised and I'm not I'm not sure because even even before all of all of these cases if anything happened people were already saying oh you're money laundering you're you're gambling so like we've been making jokes about it for years and the fact that now.
                                         
                                        people who are making those jokes have federal cases that they can now back up their
                                         
                                        jokes with it's probably just like you said the the paces out the out the tube yeah you just you
                                         
                                        touched a good part that I think is the most important part it is a more than anything I think
                                         
                                        it is a PR and it is a reputation issue for the league because even if it's true that tier
                                         
                                        roger jonte Porter these guys are one offset aren't a sign of something bigger right let's say
                                         
                                        these are just idiots who have no self-restraint and the league isn't responsible for these
                                         
    
                                        idiot millionaires having no self-restraint, right?
                                         
                                        That's on them.
                                         
                                        That can be true.
                                         
                                        It doesn't matter to the average fan.
                                         
                                        The average fan is going to see a rise in cases and a rise in fandal ads on my TV and be like,
                                         
                                        oh, well, it's less serious of a product.
                                         
                                        And that means everything.
                                         
                                        The reputation of your league, the reputation of your sport, the reputation of your
                                         
    
                                        business organization being the NBA means everything.
                                         
                                        It's at risk.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it's at risk.
                                         
                                        And it's different, especially when you go like across leagues.
                                         
                                        and I saw somebody
                                         
                                        somebody had made the joke
                                         
                                        after the Dodgers made the World Series
                                         
                                        and they're like, yeah, like, it makes sense
                                         
    
                                        why they had the interpreters, you know, take the fall
                                         
                                        because this guy's great, but it's hit literally
                                         
                                        every other, every other league.
                                         
                                        And even the NFL, like the stars haven't necessarily done it,
                                         
                                        but you've had people who have, you know, been suspended
                                         
                                        just for being, you know, just for placing bets
                                         
                                        in the, in the team facility.
                                         
                                        And whether or not you think that like,
                                         
    
                                        it's, I don't know,
                                         
                                        There's some people that might be on the opposite side.
                                         
                                        And so, like, you remember when Jai was doing the, was doing everything on Instagram
                                         
                                        live and they're like, he's not really breaking the law.
                                         
                                        Like, what's really wrong here?
                                         
                                        You are an NBA player.
                                         
                                        Like, you obviously live by different rules and you can't be on Instagram live playing
                                         
                                        around with the, with the gun.
                                         
    
                                        If you play in professional sports, you should not have, you should have never looked up
                                         
                                        Fandu.
                                         
                                        Like, if I go in your search history and I see anything draft Kings, Fandul related, that's a
                                         
                                        problem.
                                         
                                        Like, it just, you just can't be that close to it when this is the, when this is the product
                                         
                                        and when lifetime bands are on the, are on the table if you get caught in any way.
                                         
                                        It's, it's nothing new to the NBA and the commissioners, commissioners, it would be
                                         
                                        David Stern or Adam Silver to, like, going back to what you said, make sure, maintain
                                         
    
                                        the celestialist feel and try to build up a certain level of respect from the outside world
                                         
                                        to the league.
                                         
                                        There's already, like, so many, damning, like, preconceived notions when it comes.
                                         
                                        to the players and all types of things that's been done in the past and that's why like law must
                                         
                                        be laid i i agree with you but it makes it so much harder and stick here to what you to what you guys
                                         
                                        said to make sure these rules are upheld or to even try to like manage and police be a hallmutter
                                         
                                        to these rules when you got assistant coaches who can possibly go ahead and dangle and
                                         
                                        put their hands on certain things it's just so much it's so hard to like police
                                         
    
                                        Yep, exactly.
                                         
                                        And you mentioned assistant coaches.
                                         
                                        The other part of this that's relating to the product itself,
                                         
                                        Damon Jones is part of this as well.
                                         
                                        And he allegedly provided insider information
                                         
                                        about NBA games to betters.
                                         
                                        And it's been reported that that insider information
                                         
                                        was a game in 2023 that they played against the Lakers.
                                         
    
                                        I think he was a Caps coach at the time.
                                         
                                        And he got word that LeBron was going to miss the game
                                         
                                        with an ankle injury before it was officially announced.
                                         
                                        So he lets some people know,
                                         
                                        hey, LeBron's not going to play tonight.
                                         
                                        And then they got in, betty, whatever,
                                         
                                        they decided to bid on because of that,
                                         
                                        you know, butterfly effect of LeBron not playing.
                                         
    
                                        and then the rest of the world found out the odds
                                         
                                        was shifted. That is the exact type of thing
                                         
                                        that somebody inside the doors can do. And maybe
                                         
                                        he was like, he might defend himself
                                         
                                        and be like, I was just telling a friend. Oh shit, LeBron's
                                         
                                        going to come tonight. I was just talking. That's a slippery
                                         
                                        soap we're in now where every single part of the game
                                         
                                        from the NBA itself
                                         
    
                                        is affiliated. And also
                                         
                                        like you can say like, oh, I'm just telling my friend.
                                         
                                        Well then why did your friend then go
                                         
                                        put 500,000 on the opposite team?
                                         
                                        Your friend's an idiot. He set you up. Can you explain that, Mr.
                                         
                                        Jones? Yeah, exactly. And this is just
                                         
                                        like the tradeoff when it comes to accepting gambling and making sure it's a part of every single
                                         
                                        layer of basketball layer of like fucking on the screen you're going to have you're going to have
                                         
    
                                        multiple opportunities to go ahead and do such things and i can definitely envision this being like
                                         
                                        a yearly routinely cycle where us people all types of concert career at ESPN every single year
                                         
                                        maybe twice a year are going to be talking about how this new NBA player this new rookie or head coach
                                         
                                        or whatever it is, are suspended
                                         
                                        or they're losing their job because of some
                                         
                                        gambling thing. This is what you have to accept
                                         
                                        as a part of it. Yeah. And I guess
                                         
                                        yeah, it'll be a yearly thing,
                                         
    
                                        probably, which is unfortunate. Yeah.
                                         
                                        But also, it'll be a yearly thing because they're going to be on the shit
                                         
                                        hard to make sure if this is happening. They're getting them
                                         
                                        out of here instantly. Because you know, everything we're talking about
                                         
                                        obviously Adam Sover's aware of this. He's aware of the PR
                                         
                                        thing. So they're, like you said,
                                         
                                        law will be late and they will have zero
                                         
                                        tolerance. So do not expect to see
                                         
    
                                        Terry Rozier in an NBA uniform ever again.
                                         
                                        Oh, yeah. He's not even good enough to be in.
                                         
                                        And first of all, you didn't have to worry about that.
                                         
                                        He was not going to play regardless.
                                         
                                        He got zero minutes last night, bro.
                                         
                                        So, and going back to Tonsie Billups, too, like, even if this is the case with him,
                                         
                                        since it's, like, so tied to Taro's year and apparently, like, they're, obviously
                                         
                                        Tauncey Billups isn't gambling on games, or least not yet.
                                         
    
                                        That wasn't showcased us just yet.
                                         
                                        But it was linked back to the same organization or family or whatever it is.
                                         
                                        Regards needs to say, like, if I'm someone like Adam Silver, you see how people are portraying it,
                                         
                                        You see how people already want to, like, give the NBA certain tags because of the players and whatever's happened in the past.
                                         
                                        If I'm Adam Silver, you're not coaching again, like, in this league ever.
                                         
                                        Like, law has to be laid even harder every single time something happens.
                                         
                                        That's the only way to scare people.
                                         
                                        You have to put genuine fear into these people's veins.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So the Chaunce Billis won, we can get into that.
                                         
                                        The terrorism is pretty cut and dry.
                                         
                                        Don't bet on yourself.
                                         
                                        Don't bet on the games.
                                         
                                        You're a player.
                                         
                                        You're an idiot.
                                         
                                        The Chonsonisville was interesting because apparently it's not sports betting per se.
                                         
    
                                        It's illegal activity, but not illegal activity relating to sports itself.
                                         
                                        I think this is a similar situation to what we heard about the Gilbert Arenas thing,
                                         
                                        where apparently his home was being used to run illegal backdoor poker games
                                         
                                        where they had like basically untaxed casinos inside someone's house
                                         
                                        where somebody can make a bunch of money and the government never knows, right?
                                         
                                        This is a similar thing, but I think they're saying Chauncey Billups was part of it
                                         
                                        and he was like some of the bait where they can get these big rich guys to come in
                                         
                                        and have a chance to play poker with celebrities like Chauncey Billups,
                                         
    
                                        like these big names and he was involved there.
                                         
                                        and not only was he involved in was clearly
                                         
                                        untaxed poker games that they're using him as bait for
                                         
                                        they were also cheating in these poker games
                                         
                                        we got this tweet here
                                         
                                        details of the rig poker games that Damon Jones
                                         
                                        and Chauncey Billis were involved in
                                         
                                        oh Damon Jones is there too
                                         
    
                                        I didn't see that
                                         
                                        he's everywhere
                                         
                                        they use x-ray machines built into the tables
                                         
                                        to read face-down cards
                                         
                                        contact lenses slash glasses
                                         
                                        that read pre-marked cards
                                         
                                        they got the meta-glasses
                                         
                                        that's crazy
                                         
    
                                        and secret cameras and card trays
                                         
                                        these motherfuckers are advanced
                                         
                                        this is now listen
                                         
                                        you're gonna go out right
                                         
                                        go out swinging right
                                         
                                        let me see you put your best foot forward
                                         
                                        this is this right here
                                         
                                        is straight out of like a spy movie
                                         
    
                                        yeah they got spy kids glasses here
                                         
                                        that's
                                         
                                        yeah so this one's a little more
                                         
                                        I guess it's a gray area
                                         
                                        I suppose in the league perspective
                                         
                                        like obviously like bad don't do that
                                         
                                        you're you know like you're a public figure
                                         
                                        don't be partaking in it
                                         
    
                                        morality it's just moral rise it's like so fucking wrong to do but it had nothing to do with us yeah i don't
                                         
                                        care too much but him ripping the pockets off of these rich guys again these public private games like
                                         
                                        i don't care that much about that but if you're chauncey billups you have a public facing job you
                                         
                                        shouldn't be putting your career in jeopardy like this from the league perspective do you ban him
                                         
                                        just because he's affiliated with anything gambling related yes you have to just just put fear in
                                         
                                        people's hearts bro genuinely because because you can see why maybe like a pa would like be like
                                         
                                        well he's not doing anything to the integrity i well one
                                         
                                        I mean, you're committing felonies.
                                         
    
                                        Yeah, I really don't care.
                                         
                                        Regardless of what bucket you put it in,
                                         
                                        this is conduct detrimental to the league.
                                         
                                        True.
                                         
                                        So, yes, I can't ban you.
                                         
                                        And as the commissioner, I will push for that.
                                         
                                        It's, like, for everything that that you guys said of, like,
                                         
                                        he's a public figure.
                                         
    
                                        You are the head coach of, there's only 30 of these jobs.
                                         
                                        And you have one of them.
                                         
                                        And now you are out here committing felonies.
                                         
                                        and being tied to literal organized crime and mafia.
                                         
                                        You cannot be a head coach in this movie.
                                         
                                        The mafia's crazy.
                                         
                                        Like, that's crazy.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
    
                                        And I think it's a different mafia name than what I saw in the,
                                         
                                        in the Gilbert arenas, one.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        The one in Gilbert arenas, that's the Israeli mob.
                                         
                                        Yes.
                                         
                                        The one here is Italian mafia.
                                         
                                        Yeah, it was like Delanostra or something like that.
                                         
                                        I forget the name, but it was some Italian name.
                                         
    
                                        All right.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        So we got different crime families involved in the NBA.
                                         
                                        This shit touches everywhere.
                                         
                                        Different crime.
                                         
                                        fuck same fucking belt to
                                         
    
                                        ass. That's what's going to happen, bro, at the end of
                                         
                                        the day. I don't even go fuck if you're like a ball boy.
                                         
                                        I don't care if you like, just wipe tables down.
                                         
                                        I don't care if you exchange you full
                                         
                                        pair of socks and put a back to a locker room.
                                         
                                        If you scan the tickets at the front
                                         
                                        door. It doesn't matter. Like, you're associated
                                         
                                        with the league to a degree.
                                         
    
                                        And if you are doing such things,
                                         
                                        you're losing your job forever.
                                         
                                        You know, that's how I would approach if I was Adam's over. That's the
                                         
                                        best way to do so while trying to
                                         
                                        maximize the dollars of the league,
                                         
                                        while also making sure that
                                         
                                        the year there's a certain level of boundaries that aren't crossed between anyone else yeah
                                         
                                        i'm the only thing i'm thinking about like i i agree i'm not playing devil's advocate anything
                                         
    
                                        but i'm thinking about that and i think about the fact that miles bridge is just in the league
                                         
                                        and he had his year-long suspended suspension but they didn't get him out of here so i'm like
                                         
                                        are we gonna get to a place where they can justify it and just like they justify keeping him in
                                         
                                        for whatever reasons they did to say like yeah it's bad PR we'll suspend him he'll do his time but
                                         
                                        if he's not a felon, we can't ban him or whatever,
                                         
                                        what happens in those situations with this
                                         
                                        where you're attached to gambling
                                         
                                        but it's not sports related? Are they going to do some
                                         
    
                                        annoying, backwards bending things
                                         
                                        to not ban people? Now, that's where it
                                         
                                        gets really sticky. It shouldn't be sticky at all
                                         
                                        but we all know what it is at the end of the day.
                                         
                                        Like, they just give a fuck about the dollars.
                                         
                                        Yeah, and this affects it more than Miles Bridges
                                         
                                        does because... Miles Bridges, you can
                                         
                                        do whatever you want as long as you're
                                         
    
                                        not fucking with money and putting prop
                                         
                                        bets and literally point shaving.
                                         
                                        You're morally reprehensible, you're a terrible thing
                                         
                                        in being but you're nothing to do with gambling so our our sponsors are coming in regardless
                                         
                                        exactly and that's the NBA that's Adam Silver's NBA that literally is Adam Silver's NBA is that like
                                         
                                        this is a business now since he came in like him or love him his entire MO has been treating this like
                                         
                                        a business he's been great for the business of the game yeah not so great for some of the
                                         
                                        cultural parts of the game you know there's obviously things I hate him for it that's probably
                                         
    
                                        where we're going to get to is it with the moves dollars we're not going to allow it and
                                         
                                        chancellis my move dollars yeah that's Adam Silver is just about the dollars go I
                                         
                                        watched a video i think like two weeks ago or something like that where what i'm at adam silver's
                                         
                                        biggest like accomplishment since he's been in the league is putting jersey sponsors onto the
                                         
                                        actual jersey patches and time goes on like that so that isn't as like in the the initial
                                         
                                        impact that it once had in the league isn't as big at all considering just the value of it's
                                         
                                        just constant influx but like when it comes to adam silver and his main his main like his main
                                         
                                        like MO, which is maximizing and figuring out certain ways to milk the league.
                                         
    
                                        So he has to protect that at all costs.
                                         
                                        That's his biggest value to the league at this point.
                                         
                                        We're not here to watch him like necessarily pop up and rise in NBA for the love of the game.
                                         
                                        No, it's for the love of the dollars.
                                         
                                        Yeah.
                                         
                                        And there's a lot of ways we can trace back to him maximizing dollars.
                                         
                                        There's the jersey patches.
                                         
                                        There's everything as a sponsorship now.
                                         
    
                                        The Emirates NBA Cup.
                                         
                                        There's a million YouTube TV logos on NBA Finals courts.
                                         
                                        A million jerseys to sell.
                                         
                                        New jerseys every year because we want to sell them to kids every year.
                                         
                                        but obviously the betting stuff
                                         
                                        so that's the league right now
                                         
                                        and that's not even just an NBA thing
                                         
                                        like yes that's very representative
                                         
    
                                        of the NBA
                                         
                                        a lot of stuff is true
                                         
                                        about the NFL
                                         
                                        I'm sure it's true
                                         
                                        that the sports
                                         
                                        that I follow less closely
                                         
                                        that's just
                                         
                                        modern markets
                                         
    
                                        in the USA
                                         
                                        that's just how capitalism works
                                         
                                        we're gonna continue
                                         
                                        to push shareholder value
                                         
                                        and that's how you do it
                                         
                                        for the NBA
                                         
                                        Miami Heat fans
                                         
                                        are the biggest winners man
                                         
    
                                        got them out here
                                         
                                        they're gonna get the contract
                                         
                                        out the books
                                         
                                        officially got them on here
                                         
                                        and they can like not
                                         
                                        they don't have to pay them anymore
                                         
                                        either I believe
                                         
                                        oh the day he gets
                                         
    
                                        banned from the
                                         
                                        league his contract worldwide off the books so until then they're paying them fuck man yeah trailblazers
                                         
                                        fans might be the biggest losers depending how you feel about chancy billups or depending what happens
                                         
                                        with him that's really unknown but i guess you're a good momentum you're coming off of a game
                                         
                                        you almost had a victory in game one now who knows what the future your team looks like yeah that
                                         
                                        genuinely is a gut punch bro yeah we'll see where everything else goes that's our quick reaction
                                         
                                        this is ridiculous it's crazy it's obviously it's a step further than the chante porter stuff
                                         
                                        because it's arrests, the FBI is involved.
                                         
    
                                        I got fucking Cash Patel on my screen
                                         
                                        talking about the NBA
                                         
                                        at the day after tip off,
                                         
                                        which is not a coincidence.
                                         
                                        It's just,
                                         
                                        it's a crazy thing for the league.
                                         
                                        It's damning, man.
                                         
                                        Another one.
                                         
    
                                        Another one.
                                         
                                        Yep, yep.
                                         
                                        So that's our quick reaction to this.
                                         
                                        I'm sure we talk more about it
                                         
                                        as a week's go on.
                                         
                                        We're recording this right now,
                                         
                                        Thursday morning,
                                         
                                        right before we record
                                         
    
                                        the main episode you guys see tomorrow
                                         
                                        in which we'll do an overreaction
                                         
                                        for every single NBA team's first game.
                                         
                                        So quick 30 minutes from us today.
                                         
                                        We'll see y'all for three.
                                         
                                        hours tomorrow.
                                         
