Was ESPN Protecting the NBA?
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There is a lot more now that has come out with this NBA gambling fiasco. |
| 0:05.0 | And one of the interesting things this morning, I don't know if you saw this. |
| 0:08.1 | I woke up to it this morning. |
| 0:09.7 | I did not see it yesterday because we were playing golf yesterday. |
| 0:12.7 | And yes, we did lose the Walliam Buttile. |
| 0:15.6 | But it was a great day nonetheless. |
| 0:18.2 | But here's the thing. |
| 0:20.0 | I wake up this morning and I see that |
| 0:21.5 | Cash Patel, the FBI director, basically torching Stephen A. Smith. Yeah. And I'm like, |
| 0:28.0 | torched, unloaded, so now we're getting into this. And I guess that Stephen, I did not say it. I only |
| 0:35.8 | read about it. And I haven't seen the video yet, |
| 0:38.5 | but I guess Stephen A. Smith is blaming Donald Trump for the arrest of all these people that |
| 0:44.5 | are attached to the NBA, both in the card and poker world and also in the Rosier gambling and |
| 0:52.1 | throwing game world. |
| 1:00.5 | And the fact that you would actually even think that Donald Trump is doing this, |
| 1:07.4 | when these guys are doing it to themselves and the integrity of the league is at stake here. |
| 1:09.7 | I mean, I don't know how big this thing is. |
| 1:12.1 | And of course, Cash Patel goes on to say, |
| 1:17.1 | goes, I decide which arrest to make, and that's the way it's going to be. Nobody tells me who to arrest or when to arrest somebody. And I just, giving everything that's going on in the world, |
| 1:22.7 | the last thing I think Donald Trump is doing is calling up Cash Patel saying, go after the NBA players. |
| 1:29.0 | That's, that's, I mean, that is so far out in left field that it's ridiculous. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, it was surprising to me because I know that Stephen A. Smith has been involved in politics a little bit, and he's not somebody who is totally against the current administration, but this was just a, this was a wild accusation. |
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