ESPN First Take: The NBA gambling scandal was by design to cloud a predominantly Black league's popularity

[UpAndComing]

12:45


All Black panel except Shams

Stephen A Smith:

- "Trump is coming, I repeat Trump is coming"
- "This administration said they can't wait to go to the Superbowl when Bad Bunny comes on, so they can grab some folks with ICE agents"
- "Big night in the NBA on opening week with all that happened, that has now been smeared"
- "They are trying to get back at all the NBA and WNBA protests"
- "Tell me when was the last time when the director of the FBI, of all people go up on a podium and announce something like this. We've seen multiple reports of other leagues that never gotten this much attention"
- "It's not a coincidence, not an accident, but a statement that was made"


Jay Williams:

- "The timing of all of this is an exchange of power, that everyone is on notice"
- "There are billions of dollars floating in our world that are worth reporting on, that are illegal dollars"
- "This is 10s of millions of dollars with this NBA scandal. Yes that still is alot of money, but this was a message"
- "They are trying to make the NBA the face of Gambling scandals"


I'm actually shocked they had a segment like this on ESPN

 

[KidJSoul]

People will be mad ()

But I agree

And I respect Steven A for saying this.

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

i was at work watching the press conference wondering why the fukk Patel was there

 

[Doobie Doo]

12:45


All Black panel except Shams

Stephen A Smith:

- "Trump is coming, I repeat Trump is coming"
- "This administration said they can't wait to go to the Superbowl when Bad Bunny comes on, so they can grab some folks with ICE agents"
- "Big night in the NBA on opening week with all that happened, that has now been smeared"
- "They are trying to get back at all the NBA and WNBA protests"
- "Tell me when was the last time when the director of the FBI, of all people go up on a podium and announce something like this. We've seen multiple reports of other leagues that never gotten this much attention"
- "It's not a coincidence, not an accident, but a statement that was made"


Jay Williams:

- "The timing of all of this is an exchange of power, that everyone is on notice"
- "There are billions of dollars floating in our world that are worth reporting on, that are illegal dollars"
- "This is 10s of millions of dollars with this NBA scandal. Yes that still is alot of money, but this was a message"
- "They are trying to make the NBA the face of Gambling scandals"


I'm actually shocked they had a segment like this on ESPN

Truth, this will be overhyped and overcharged due to the race. I noticed they only named the NBA players and not the other people arrested.

 

[GatorStaceyAdams]

I was thinking this would be for some elaborate sports gambling ring, which admittedly would be a huge deal.

But when I found out that this was about a poker game?


The head of the FBI doing press conferences on illegal card games now? Yea this feels very calculated

 

[chiefdogg]

As

Truth, this will be overhyped and overcharged due to the race. I noticed they only named the NBA players and not the other people arrested.

Facts, where the Mobs names at?

 

[jilla82]

Are yall blaming the Biden admin?
because thats who started it

Trump and them def wanted to get in on this because he's circling the block on everyone he thinks went after him...
but these cases were all started under Biden.

 

[The_Sheff]

Are yall blaming the Biden admin?
because thats who started it

Trump and them def wanted to get in on this because he's circling the block on everyone he thinks went after him...
but these cases were all started under Biden.

The issue isn’t the investigations. Nobody is saying these investigations shouldn’t have happened.

The issue is the timing of the arrests, the director of the FBI holding a press conference on it, and lumping two completely separate crimes together to make a grand show. That’s where you can see an agenda is at play.

 

[jilla82]

The issue isn’t the investigations. Nobody is saying these investigations shouldn’t have happened.

The issue is the timing of the arrests, the director of the FBI holding a press conference on it, and lumping two completely separate crimes together to make a grand show. That’s where you can see an agenda is at play.

thats politics...they all do it.

 

[CopiousX]

I was thinking this would be for some elaborate sports gambling ring, which admittedly would be a huge deal.

But when I found out that this was about a poker game?


The head of the FBI doing press conferences on illegal card games now? Yea this feels very calculated

He has to show some wins so that people don't demand those files that Trump wants hidden.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

I didn't even know what happened so i doubt the majority of people care or know

shyt, i was about to re-up my slingtv sub (ii only get it during nba season) then realized the nba was on nbc just from leaving the tv on

tldr: nobody cares

 

[Tribal Outkast]

It’ll be old news by Monday

 

[ORDER_66]

I mean its true tho...

 

[Silver Surfer]

They did a press conference because the mob was involved

 

[Da_Eggman]

Oh