Will the National Basketball Association (NBA) do anything about its gambling problems? Just how deep does this gambling scandal go, and how many others — players, coaches, referees and NBA officials — might be implicated over the months ahead?
Here, Michael Franzese takes a look. Franzese is a former mobster in the Colombo crime family in New York City.
It’s the one family that didn’t get wrapped up in the FBI’s recent raid involving rigged NBA games as well as related and equally rigged poker matches at New York townhomes.
I’m breaking down the NBA gambling scandal that just broke – Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and 34 others arrested in a massive FBI operation targeting four of the five New York families.
I ran 12 bookmakers for 30 years, so I know exactly how this works. Athletes are easy prey. They get in deep, owe money, then we own them. Rozier allegedly faked an injury to help inside bets. Billups was a “face card,” luring victims into rigged poker games with X-ray tables and card counting devices.
I’ve been warning the NBA, NCAA, and 300+ universities about this for decades. This won’t stop. Gambling is too lucrative and the mob is too smart. Here’s the real story behind Operation Zen Diagram and Operation Nothing But Net from someone who lived it: Michael Franzese.
“They dropped the ball.” Shaquille O’Neal reacts to the NBA/Mafia game rigging scheme. Here’s more from M.J. Truth.
