The Anthony Cumia Show - October 31, 2025


Hoops, Cheats And Mob Suits ｜ 10-26-25


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

144.56

Word count

1,190

Sentence count

79

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Summary

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Basketball players in the NBA have been telling their buddies what to do during a game in order to make money betting on the outcome of the game. The FBI is investigating the NBA for a gambling scandal that involves players and their buddies.

Transcript

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00:01:13.840 story that popped up last
00:01:15.960 week. It's been being
00:01:18.040 investigated for years by
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00:01:22.180 is uh entangled in some crazy scandal involving gambling whoo uh basketball players love to gamble
00:01:36.200 they uh they they make a lot of money the professional ones anyway and the ones that
00:01:43.540 are professional and and name you know they're big uh big athlete stars in the mba mba they uh
00:01:51.120 make a lot of money and they gamble a lot of money i heard somebody the other day trying to
00:01:57.000 make an excuse for it's like they're not gambling they don't have gambling problems they're they
00:02:01.440 have a an addiction to competing they're very competitive yeah really yeah because that's what
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00:02:15.400 matter i just want to beat the dealer yeah yeah i don't get that um that whole thing anyway so
00:02:26.100 basically the the scam there's like two separate scams going here but they involve gambling
00:02:33.140 one of which is that players in the nba have been uh letting people know what they'll do
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00:02:48.560 what are called prop bets.
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00:04:51.960 You know, I play poker with these guys.
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00:05:04.400 they're wearing glasses
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00:05:24.160 so they've been doing that
00:05:25.860 and this one guy is now saying
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00:06:05.920 During the game, we were around a bunch of bad guys,
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00:06:17.460 A source who did not want to be named told The Post,
00:06:20.420 I wouldn't want to be named either.
00:06:22.320 That sounds like some scary stuff.
00:06:25.600 He said he was invited to the high-privileged, high-stakes poker game
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00:06:31.020 we would never have been there if not for a professional athlete he refused to name the
00:06:37.960 athlete but indicated it was a former nfl player until now the scandals revolved around the nba
00:06:43.660 players and coaches two pro basketball players were named by prosecutors in the sprawling poker
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