Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff.

Real Crime Stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

We have a really interesting show for you today.

And even though many have made light of this NBA mafia connection with this gambling

scandal, it is huge. It is huge. Just think about the NBA being a billion dollar,

a multi-billion dollar business. And then you get a couple of players that are dishonest and selling

information to the mafia and not just selling information, but actually actively acting on

this information. For example, Terry Rozier took himself out of a game.

And when they all, he gave information that he was going to do it, he was either going to feign injury.

And that would, that would totally affect the outcome of that game.

And it did.

And some people made hundreds of thousands of dollars on that bet.

Think of the integrity of the entire league or the lack thereof. And whenever you get involved in La Cosa Nostra, you see this, NBA gambling

scandal, Costa Dopstra, I called it, you know. But whenever anyone gets involved with La Cosa Noce, which stands for Our Thing, you're dealing

with criminals.

You're dealing with people that will kill, that will break bones, that will threaten,

that will extort.

And here you have these players.

And we'll get into it as to the why. Why were these guys who almost all

multimillionaires themselves getting involved in this gambling scandal, absolutely outrageous.

You know, just as the NBA season was getting underway in late October 2025, federal authorities

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