""It might not surface in the next months or even years," I wrote, "but it will happen.""
""Get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight.""
""For more than two decades," he wrote, "the National Basketball Association has opposed the expansion of legal sports betting, as have the other major professional sports leagues in the United States.""
A major gambling-related scandal emerged in the NBA after federal prosecutors charged player Terry Rozier and former player and assistant coach Damon Jones with fraud and money laundering tied to a scheme to fix bets on NBA games. Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was charged in a separate indictment linking him to a Mafia scheme to fix poker games; Jones was also named in that indictment. The NBA placed Billups and Rozier on leave. Both defendants are due to appear in federal court in Brooklyn and have asserted their innocence. Professional leagues long opposed legal sports betting but later embraced it, with the NBA shifting earlier.
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