SCRAMBLE: The pro athletes and coaches who get busted for gambling are the dumbest people on earth
Garage Logic
Gamut Podcast Network
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The pro athletes and coaches who get busted for gambling are the dumbest people on earth.
Former NBA players Chauncey Billups — currently the Portland Trail Blazers' head coach — and Damon Jones were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit both wire fraud and money laundering after allegedly participating in rigged poker games.
Billups and Jones were allegedly dubbed as "face cards" which, the indictment says, were "members of the Cheating Teams and received a portion of the criminal proceeds in exchange for their participation in the scheme." The scheme resulted in the victims losing at least $7.15 million, dating back to April 2019, according to the Department of Justice.
"Billups and Jones, in particular… were utilized to attract victims to the games because of their status as former professional athletes," the DOJ said.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a heads up to you folks sitting with a notebook and pen, |
| 0:03.1 | Mishki, the new podcast here in Garage Logic Land, is now coming out twice a week, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you're, in fact, scribbling this down, Wednesday is kind of tough to spell. It's not like it sounds. You want to spell a W-E-N-Z, but that, of course, would be a mistake. Friday is spelled just like it sounds. you're going to be okay there. |
| 0:22.6 | But Wednesday's a bugaboo. |
| 0:24.2 | Let me tell you, Pete, E-N-Z, but that, of course, would be a mistake. Friday is spelled just like it sounds. |
| 0:21.6 | You're going to be okay there. |
| 0:22.6 | But Wednesday's a bugaboo. |
| 0:24.2 | Let me tell you, people, just a pain in the patooty. |
| 0:27.5 | Jeez, it's hard. |
| 0:31.2 | This is the weekly scramble, a place where we chat about life over a cold one. Orbb to. It's time to belly up to the pod with Mike Fradolone and your host, Chris Revers. That's right. It's time for the weekly Scramble podcast. My name is Chris Revers with me as always. His name is Mike Fradaloney. Hello, Michael. How you doing, Revers? I'm doing okay. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm doing okay. You know, we're almost to the weekend, so that's always good. And Vikings game tonight? Big Vikings. I'm not very optimistic about it. By the three and a half underdog, three and a half point underdogs, right? Yeah, but it's one of those things where I was telling my son this this morning. |
| 1:10.0 | That's one of those things where the NFL is all about matchups. |
| 1:14.2 | I mean, you've got the four teams that are clearly better than everybody else. The four teams that are the absolute bottom feeders and then there's everybody else in the middle. And I just really don't like this match. Again, I'm always cheering for the purple. Sure, sure, sure, sure. |
| 1:27.6 | I just don't like this matchup. |
| 1:29.4 | Well, we don't really have much of a quarterback. That's the other issue. Why wouldn't you just kind of say, JJ, good luck, give it a shot? Well, because he's probably not healthy as my. What about Brozman? Brosmer? Brosmer. Why don't you just, |
| 1:42.0 | Brosmer can throw the ball. |
| 1:43.1 | I thought he was going to get, |
| 1:44.1 | I thought he was going to get put in on Sunday to be perfectly honest. |
| 1:46.1 | Like, why wouldn't you? |
| 1:46.9 | Just give him a shot. |
| 1:47.7 | Give him a shot. Brozmer? Brosmer. Brosmer can throw the ball. I thought he was going to get put in on Sunday, to be perfectly honest. |
| 1:46.2 | Like, why wouldn't you? |
| 1:46.9 | Just give him a shot. Give him a shot. He can throw the ball. I've seen him throw the ball. I was impressed. Yeah. So as long as we're on the subject of sports, I have got to start the show with this story. because when I saw it this morning, |
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