Co-Conspirator 1: We Investigated the NBA Betting Scandal's "Original Sin"
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
As Terry Rozier and Co. return to court, Pablo spans the globe — and the nether regions of the basketball internet — to reveal the unnamed player who turned a cup of coffee into the NBA's worst nightmare. Amin Elhassan helps connect government clues to red flags, obscure movie references to entourage Instagram posts... and one really dirty recruiting trip to a new guarantee in the economy of legalized gambling.
Previously on PTFO:
• Part One: Moose, the Money and a Garbage-Time God
• Part Two: Hoopfellas
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out, presented by eBay Live. |
| 0:03.1 | I am Pablo Torre, and today you're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:07.6 | Everybody's my friend, everybody's surrounded, around me, loving me, |
| 0:11.9 | and whatever I say, that's what it is. |
| 0:13.5 | That's what it happened. |
| 0:19.0 | Then one day, I wake up at 60 federal ages outside my door. |
| 0:25.7 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:32.9 | There's a quote in this thing we're going to do here today about the whole NBA gambling |
| 0:36.6 | scandal that I want to get to. And I need to always be careful, especially with you, thing we're going to do here today about the whole NBA gambling scandal that I want to get to. |
| 0:38.0 | And I need to always be careful, especially with you, when we're comparing things to movies too much. |
| 0:44.5 | But it keeps on becoming inevitable. |
| 0:47.7 | Look, I've done my homework this time. |
| 0:49.8 | I just got done with a rewatch of the Godfather trilogy. |
| 0:56.3 | I did Goodfellas again just in case. |
| 1:02.4 | I also have King in New York, Carlito's Way. So I'm set. I know all about organized crime. |
| 1:08.9 | Quiz me. The two U.S. government investigations, I mean, about all of this stuff, were called what? There was Operation Royal Flush, |
| 1:12.5 | and then there was Operation Nothing But Bet. |
| 1:15.3 | And can I say again, like I said in the last episode, |
| 1:17.8 | I hate these naming conventions. |
| 1:19.8 | But it is helpful for our purposes |
| 1:21.1 | because we are going to focus on the betting-focused one, |
| 1:24.0 | nothing but bet, |
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