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NBA gambling ring arrests
This will probably get quite ugly .
Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups reportedly arrested as part of sports gambling probe: Live updates as FBI announces details - Yahoo Sports https://share.google/8raanNUcLMdQDhZc4
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From the press briefing, it involved 4 of the 5 well known mafia families. Sophisticated
shuffling devices and x ray tables to see what the other players cards were. It appears the NBA players were invited to the games to give them legitimacy and were the marks. A very high tech operation. |
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From further info, it does appear that a number of the NBA players were actually
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Any game played by man can be, has been, and will be, rigged. Place yer bets, folks...
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Pro athletes of any stripe are notoriously attracted to gambling...these are the ultimate "type-A" people who have god complexes and think that they can control things.
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Meanwhile Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose were banned for life from baseball but today Fanduel and other betting sights are major sponsors of professional leagues.
The cart and horse are not where they should be.
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Gambling triggers the same reward centers as drugs; emotional highs and lows, the need for the next reward.
While legal, I wish it wasn't: Smoking can give a person cancer, gambling gives the whole family financial cancer. ESPN, Fox Sport, et al, should be ashamed. If any of you have seen the detritus left behind an addicted gambler, you get why.
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BTW, just because I don't gamble doesn't mean I haven't struggled with other addictions...I just understand addiction and wince. This will not end well.
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Gambling $$ and medical/pharma/insurance. The most evil influences in our society at the moment.
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College campuses are awash with gambling addicts today. They are targeted. Probably the same marketing people the credit card companies use.
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 .Easy credit ... the opiate of the masses ... get 'em hooked early... now this. Just saw that NC is gonna allow college athletes and staff to join the latest group of addicts ... along with new unwanted casinos that our politicians have sold out too.... it $uck$ bigly .
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The amount of televised gambling ads for any sport (but particularly NHL) is crazy! I wish they would go the way of the cigarette ads of the past. I work way to hard for my money to gamble although I do purchase lotto tickets on occasion when the payout is way up.
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What a crazy story. Just another example of people that have everything losing it all, because it’s never enough. From what I’ve read it sounds like there was at least an insider trading aspect of providing details on injuries before the public was aware, if not outright players leaving games early to sway the outcome.
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The betting ads make me shake my head.
They are grooming this generation of young people to think that gambling is a normal part of life.
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