Hoopfellas: We Investigated the "Puppet Master" of NBA Gambling
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Basketball's high-stakes nightmare is front-page news. But Pablo has been decoding thousands of pages of court documents, while talking to two dozen sources... and keeping up with Kash Patel, to unmask the would-be kingpin hiding in plain sight. Amin Elhassan joins for a swipe through the jet-setting, sports-betting, tequila-chugging life of a man who might actually connect the mafia to the NBA.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:06.0 | So that's why I'm saying if anybody thinks that sports betting, you've got to just understand there's going to be highs and there's going to be lows. |
| 0:12.0 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:19.0 | I feel like you're either about to arrest me as a member of immigration control, |
| 0:26.3 | or you are very, very well prepared for this specific episode. |
| 0:30.5 | If it were the former, I would also have, like, a mask covering my face right here. |
| 0:35.3 | You know, like what we wore during the pandemic. |
| 0:38.2 | Alack and alas, I'm just ready for a poker game. |
| 0:40.8 | I mean, I don't even have time to do the nonsense with you because, A, I have a montage I'm |
| 0:49.1 | about to press play on, and B, this shit has to do with the Department of Justice, |
| 0:54.8 | which you might have heard about last week. |
| 0:57.0 | All right, we're turning to the breaking news out of the NBA. |
| 1:00.2 | Sprawling FBI probe into mafia-linked gambling and sports rigging schemes |
| 1:03.9 | are sending shockwaves across the NBA and the United States. |
| 1:07.5 | The FBI arresting a coach in Portland as well as current and former players. |
| 1:11.8 | This is the insider trading saga for the NBA. That's what this is. That's why we are |
| 1:17.3 | going to take heat. Trump is coming. Big night for the NBA. When Bionna put on the show, |
| 1:23.6 | that has now been smeared because we're talking about this story. |
| 1:28.4 | It was really hard to pick which clips would go into that montage. |
| 1:31.9 | There was a lot. |
| 1:33.0 | So many to pick from. |
| 1:34.4 | And yet there's always this incredible desire in me to nitpick, |
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