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Friday, October 24th, 2025.

I'm Chris Foster.

An NBA gambling scandal puts a spotlight on what, for some people, is a problem.

Much like substance abuse, the brain develops tolerance.

And so people with gambling problems report they need to have more and more money to achieve

that same high.

You know, they need to take more and more risks.

And so that leads to chasing behavior and that eventually starts to look a lot like addiction.

This is the Fox News Rundown evening edition.

The NBA is taking heat over one of its head coaches and a player, Portland Trailblazers

coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat Guard Terry Rozier, getting caught up in an illegal gambling

scandal. The league isn't accused of anything illegal, but it certainly has embraced the gambling

industry and the advertising income from it since legal gambling's taken off for the last five years.

About one in five adults say they've placed a legal sports bet over the last 12 months, and some

percentage of them get compulsive about it. We don't know why these NBA guys may have gotten

involved if they did, but in some cases, gambling addiction is

what leads to the trouble. Addiction can mean a lot of things, but I think at the root, it's probably

an unhealthy relationship with gambling. Safer gambling strategies president, Keith Scott White.

And so sometimes that's just associating with people who are gambling illegally. Other times,

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