Levitan's Solo Pod: Should We Ban Player Props In Wake Of NBA Scandal? Plus Adam Plays Matchmaker (Episode 927)

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Adam Levitan breaks down Week 8 in NFL DFS after giving his thoughts on the blockbuster NBA betting scandal and what it means for the future of prop bets, before finally tackling a new batch of hard-hitting listener questions.

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0:00 - Introduction

0:27 - Levitan on the NBA Betting Scandal

9:10 - Adam’s GPP Review

12:28 - Adam’s Cash Game Review

15:58 - Listener Questions

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 927 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast.
0:23.2	My name is Adam Levittan.
0:24.2	I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, and we are coming off of A,
0:28.1	the games really are rigged kind of week.
0:31.9	Yes, that's right.
0:33.1	I owe the people an apology.
0:35.3	Because I honestly thought that the games are rigged, you idiot.
0:40.2	I thought those people were pretty brain dead. And to some degree, I still think they are.
0:45.0	I still don't think the NFL tells refs to give the chiefs calls because they want Taylor Swift
0:50.4	and Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl. I still think 99% of the time when a player has a
0:55.9	bad game, it's because he had a bad game or we had a bad projection. It's not because he
1:00.3	threw the game. But the main reasoning for why I thought pro sports wouldn't have at scale
1:07.4	these scandals that we've seen is because these guys make unspeakable amounts of money.
1:13.2	Terry Rozier has made $160 million in his NBA career. He's cheating the game for 200K.
1:20.8	That just did not compute to me. And that's where I was naive. That's where I was wrong.
1:26.0	Because who the hell knows what kind of trouble these guys
1:29.3	got in? I have no idea. I'm just speculating. But let's say hypothetically, you're stuck
1:35.2	25 million to the wrong kind of people. And then when they say, hey, pull yourself out of the game
1:40.8	with a quote unquote injury in the first quarter, maybe you got to do it.
1:49.5	And that brings me to the crux of this issue, what I really wanted to talk about today.
1:58.0	Has the repeal of PASPA, has legalized sports betting in the United States, has that made this stuff, these betting scandals occur occur more, or are we just catching it more now?
2:04.2	So obviously I sit in the circle of people who benefit from this stuff, benefit from legalized
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