CLASSIC: Interview: Corruption, Conspiracy and Champions: Crime in the NBA
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The world of professional sports is a multi-billion dollar industry -- and even the most ardent fans may not know what actually happens away from the bright lights and cheering crowds. Join Ben and special guest, journalist Tim Livingston, the creator of Whistleblower, as they dive into the strange, twisting tale of one of the NBA's biggest conspiracies -- a gambling scandal that rocked the industry and, disturbingly, may have reprecussions that continue throughout the sport in the modern day.
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| 0:00.0 | fellow conspiracy realists we're coming in little caesar style hot and ready with a with a classic |
| 0:07.3 | from 2020 as we celebrate the holidays and the passage of one year to another uh we are not the experts |
| 0:16.0 | on the NBA but we're pretty good at figuring out conspiracies. |
| 0:22.9 | And in this one, guys, if you remember, not an episode per se, but an interview, |
| 0:30.5 | we teamed up with a guy named Tim Livingston, who introduced us to one of the biggest conspiracies in the entire history of the NBA. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, this official name Tim Donahy, who back in 2007 got arrested for betting on games. |
| 0:51.7 | He was officiating. |
| 0:53.4 | Whoops. |
| 0:54.3 | Whoopsy. Don't do that. Was this the podcast series that this dude did? For betting on games, he was officiating. Whoops. Whoops. |
| 0:54.8 | Don't do that. |
| 0:56.2 | Was this the podcast series that this dude did with Tinderfoot? |
| 0:59.3 | Yes. |
| 0:59.9 | Yes. |
| 1:00.2 | This is whistleblower. |
| 1:01.3 | That's a cool one. |
| 1:02.4 | Really excellent deep dive. |
| 1:04.0 | And it goes into sports betting, sports fixing conversations we've had in the past with another expert on the subject now that I'm |
| 1:12.1 | thinking about it, whose name is escaping me. |
| 1:13.9 | But this one dude that we talked to who is like, all sports are rigged. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes. |
| 1:17.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:18.3 | Mm-hmm. |
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