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Welcome to the bonus show.

Some of you may know that growing up, I was a huge NBA basketball fan.

I would watch just about any game that was on TV, although my favorite was Michael Jordan,

and then also separately and concurrently, the Boston Celtics.

And the NBA is now in a massive gambling scandal that has led to criminal investigations.

A lot of different interesting things here.

So the FBI has announced that 30 people have been charged into separate but related

investigations.

These individuals include Terry Rosier of the Miami Heat, Damon Jones, former Cleveland

Cavaliers player, Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the Portland Trailblazers and also a former

player and a whole bunch of other people. Now, there are criminal charges. Each person who is involved

has his own timeline with regard to court appearances and the entire thing. But at its core

here, this is about betting. This is about betting both directly,

but also in terms of helping other people bet, which sometimes is the way that this is done,

where insiders have information about injuries or whatever. And it is, if you know or suspect that you're giving information to people who are not just going

to go, oh, what an interesting piece of information.

But if they're going to go and make bets on that basis, you are not allowed to do that

according to the NBA's constitution.

Now, there are things that are banned by the NBA, but not crimes.

There are things that are crimes.

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