Valuetainment - October 25, 2025


＂Trump Is COMING!＂ - Stephen A WARNS NBA-Mafia Gambling Scandal Is The FIRST Of MANY Indictments


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Stephen A. and Rob are joined by special guest Vinny Chaudhuri to discuss the latest in the Pat McAfee vs. Donald Trump saga. Also, a new deal between the NBA and Walt Disney and much more!

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00:00:00.000 Here's what Stephen A. had to say about this.
00:00:02.340 Rob, if you want to play this.
00:00:03.320 Because Stephen A. had a complete different take on this.
00:00:07.040 And by the way, when I said Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA go to that,
00:00:10.560 that's three days ago.
00:00:12.120 So he knew he was coming.
00:00:13.680 And he went on McAfee.
00:00:15.420 And he talked about legalized betting to monitor.
00:00:19.060 So nobody knew why Adam Silver all of a sudden is going on Pat McAfee.
00:00:23.120 And then two days later, Cash does what he does.
00:00:25.540 But here's what first take Stephen A. had to say in regards to this.
00:00:29.600 Go ahead, Rob.
00:00:30.620 For one incident after another, have I said Trump is coming?
00:00:38.040 He's coming.
00:00:39.560 I'm going to say it on national television again.
00:00:41.980 Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl.
00:00:44.960 And all of a sudden, you're hearing ICE is going to be there.
00:00:48.000 Looking to engage in mass deportations.
00:00:51.480 The Super Bowl.
00:00:52.940 Disrupting things.
00:00:54.640 Big night for the NBA.
00:00:56.120 When Bionna put on a show.
00:00:57.440 So that has now been smeared because we're talking about this story.
00:01:02.720 Okay?
00:01:03.460 Remember, Trump has a long, long history connected to the world of sports because he had those casinos.
00:01:09.060 Where do you think folks were coming at half the time?
00:01:11.280 I'm not talking about individuals.
00:01:12.880 I'm talking about the culture.
00:01:14.800 When people want to go to a casino.
00:01:17.260 When people want to gamble.
00:01:18.260 When people want to party.
00:01:19.160 Whatever the case may be.
00:01:20.500 This was his kind of connection to that.
00:01:22.820 Why am I glad you're here, Monica?
00:01:24.820 Because don't be surprised if the WNBA is next on his list.
00:01:30.600 Because when you've got all of these protests that have been going out there.
00:01:34.020 And people that have been protesting against him and what have you.
00:01:37.080 This man is coming.
00:01:39.560 He's coming.
00:01:40.780 And I've been saying it for a long time.
00:01:43.040 And to me, this is the latest nugget of evidence that we're talking about right here.
00:01:47.360 That's not to question the legitimacy of the case.
00:01:50.540 We don't know.
00:01:51.480 We're all sitting up here and we're saying that we don't know.
00:01:54.300 He continues to say he's coming to the NBA, to WNBA, to NFL, to this, to a few different things.
00:01:58.820 Vinny, where are you at with what Stephen A's saying?
00:02:00.300 Listen, with all due respect.
00:02:01.560 And I know he's probably going to make a video going, Vinny, I don't give up what you think.
00:02:06.060 I hear you, Vinny.
00:02:06.920 Yeah, yeah.
00:02:07.380 Well, I love Stephen A.
00:02:08.960 Like, no joke to death, Pat.
00:02:10.420 But this is a horrible, horrible take.
00:02:13.080 To think that Donald Trump, with all the stuff that he has going on.
00:02:16.840 He is out there going, hey, go after the NBA and make a kick.
00:02:20.940 No, no, no, give me a freaking break.
00:02:24.060 You know why Kash Patel is involved?
00:02:26.240 Because the mafia is involved.
00:02:29.800 The Lucchese, Gambino, Genovese, Bonanno.
00:02:34.320 And by the way, let's just, let's all talk.
00:02:36.080 This didn't start under Trump, Stephen A.
00:02:38.120 This started under the Autopend administration.
00:02:40.880 This happened two years ago.
00:02:42.840 And they're building a case.
00:02:44.620 My beef is, listen, I'm not saying I can care less, but sports schmorts.
00:02:48.360 All right, Virginia Gouffre, her book came out where she's saying, well-known prime minister
00:02:53.780 and all these billionaires raped, sex traffic, beat her, bloody, nobody, eh, sports.
00:03:00.420 Sports, that's the real problem.
00:03:02.180 And you know what?
00:03:02.620 When it comes to it, I understand why Stephen A.
00:03:05.320 has to take this point.
00:03:06.440 I understand.
00:03:07.560 Tom, who owns ESPN?
00:03:10.080 Disney.
00:03:10.360 Disney.
00:03:10.820 Who's his boss?
00:03:12.180 I go.
00:03:12.800 Let me ask you another question, Tom.
00:03:14.180 Tom, did you know that, guess who just signed a deal recently with the NBA from 2025-26 season
00:03:21.440 to 2035 to 2036, 11 years, $76 billion.
00:03:28.240 Take a wild guess, Tom.
00:03:29.760 Yeah, ESPN that's currently sitting in the office going, man, I don't know.
00:03:34.480 Disney.
00:03:35.440 Yeah, Disney.
00:03:36.320 So I get it that he has to have this attitude, but to say that Trump is purposely doing this
00:03:43.500 to go after it, that's a stretch.
00:03:46.320 Do not get me wrong.
00:03:47.720 I want Trump to go after everybody, meaning the Brennans, the Obamas, the Hillary, the
00:03:52.680 Comeys.
00:03:53.720 Good.
00:03:54.320 I want that.
00:03:55.180 I want accountability.
00:03:56.160 I want retribution because we deserve it.
00:03:58.360 But to have this, bro, this goes back to the mafia.
00:04:02.580 This goes back to sports.
00:04:03.340 What clip do you have?
00:04:04.220 What clip do you have of the way they were doing the gambling thing?
00:04:06.700 Rob, do you have that?
00:04:07.640 Pat, this is a POV through the glasses of how, because Chauncey and all these guys are accused
00:04:12.000 of cheating in poker.
00:04:13.500 These are the glasses.
00:04:15.240 Seven million bucks.
00:04:16.400 Watch this.
00:04:17.480 These are the glasses.
00:04:18.320 Look into the glasses of how you can look at the card.
00:04:20.020 Ready for this?
00:04:20.660 You wear sunglasses at the table.
00:04:22.560 Look at that crap.
00:04:23.520 Stop.
00:04:23.960 Look at that.
00:04:25.120 You're cooked.
00:04:26.600 You're cooked.
00:04:27.460 There's a king.
00:04:28.260 That's a three.
00:04:29.200 That's a queen. 1.00
00:04:30.400 You know who's betting.
00:04:31.220 You know who's going all in.
00:04:32.300 You know everything.
00:04:33.500 You know what cards they have in their hands.
00:04:35.580 Okay?
00:04:36.060 And mind you, but again, put the Trump crap aside for two seconds.
00:04:39.900 Everybody wants to go to Trump.
00:04:41.020 Imagine all the livelihoods gone.
00:04:43.120 Somebody that's like, oh, they're going to win.
00:04:44.320 They're going to win.
00:04:44.980 And you're cheating like that.
00:04:46.260 They're throwing freaking games.
00:04:47.860 ESPN.
00:04:48.380 Pat, is this where ESPN took off the ESPN bet?
00:04:51.260 Yeah.
00:04:51.600 This is during the, can we play this, Rob?
00:04:53.680 Can we play ESPN?
00:04:54.300 Time and place.
00:04:55.400 Oh, look.
00:04:55.940 They just, watch this on the bottom right.
00:04:57.740 ESPN bet.
00:04:58.380 They're talking about betting.
00:04:59.520 And then all of a sudden, boom, they take it off.
00:05:02.080 This is huge.
00:05:03.940 This is huge.
00:05:04.760 But again, going back to Trump, everything has to go to Trump.
00:05:08.280 Did they break the law?
00:05:09.720 Hold on.
00:05:10.180 Did they break the law?
00:05:11.360 Okay.
00:05:11.580 We're going to all find out.
00:05:12.680 Was there cheating?
00:05:13.620 Was there happening?
00:05:14.480 If it's a yes, stop this Trump nonsense.
00:05:17.020 Come on.
00:05:17.720 Move on.
00:05:18.280 And good if he's coming.
00:05:19.240 If they broke the law, good.
00:05:20.720 Did you see Cash's response to Stephen A.?
00:05:22.580 Yeah, play Cash's response, too.
00:05:23.800 Did you see Cash's response?
00:05:25.200 But it's just a weak argument.
00:05:26.700 It's come on, man.
00:05:27.120 I love Stephen A., but Cash came at you, buddy.
00:05:29.240 No.
00:05:29.260 No, come on. 0.85
00:05:30.240 He's like, while you're pulling it up, I can summarize it.
00:05:32.820 He goes, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
00:05:34.320 I've heard some dumb things.
00:05:35.840 That is the dumbest accusation ever.
00:05:37.360 Do you have it?
00:05:37.940 Yeah, this is it.
00:05:39.780 Yeah, down the street.
00:05:40.720 By the way, this was so wild.
00:05:43.880 Stephen A. Smith, the sports commentator, suggested that this was revenge from the president
00:05:50.060 for all the kind of left-wing activism of the NBA.
00:05:52.680 Your response to that, 15 seconds.
00:05:54.960 I'm the FBI director.
00:05:56.300 I decide which arrest to conduct and which not to conduct.
00:05:59.220 That may be the single dumbest thing I've ever heard out of anyone in modern history.
00:06:03.260 And I live most of my time in Washington, D.C.
00:06:05.280 It's right up there with Adam Schiff.
00:06:06.920 We arrest people for crimes.
00:06:08.480 I mean, let me ask you a question.
00:06:13.100 Adam, got you an honest question?
00:06:14.100 I'll give you my chance.
00:06:14.560 Do you think, do you think, because yeah, LeBron, all them, BLM, bashing him, Popovich,
00:06:21.820 everybody talking shit, and bashing Trump for all the years.
00:06:25.320 Do you think this was like on a list of stuff?
00:06:28.940 And Trump said, yeah, you know what?
00:06:30.720 Why don't you just...
00:06:31.460 No.
00:06:32.120 Okay, so that's what I'm saying.
00:06:33.500 Like Trump, with all the shit that he's doing, with all the peace deals, with the border,
00:06:37.440 with tariffs, he's sitting there worrying about the NBA.
00:06:40.340 Bro, this is scraps.
00:06:42.060 This is scraps.
00:06:43.280 But this is still something serious, where there's money involved, and the mafia is back.
00:06:47.920 Oh, yeah.
00:06:48.360 What did everybody think?
00:06:49.540 The mafia, like you said, they retired.
00:06:51.800 You think all the families went, oh, because Giuliani came and did all this.
00:06:55.600 No, no, those families are still around, and they're still doing their thing.
00:06:58.220 P.B., I want to get your perspective on the mafia, for sure.
00:07:00.360 I don't know if you spoke with Michael or Sam or these guys, but let me give you my perspective
00:07:03.700 on the NBA, and I've spoken with some NBA friends of mine.
00:07:07.220 And, you know, the NBA stands for National Basketball Association.
00:07:10.760 It also stands for no betting allowed, which nobody abides by.
00:07:15.240 You know, you talk about bringing Michael Jordan back.
00:07:17.000 This is the worst time to bring Michael Jordan back, because the one blemish on his career
00:07:20.340 was the alleged gambling thing that he did that led him to baseball for a few years.
00:07:24.180 So that's very interesting.
00:07:25.260 But the NBA definitely has a culture of gambling problem.
00:07:27.960 Here's Shaq right here basically saying, listen, someone who played 19 seasons in the league,
00:07:32.160 I have teammates in Vegas, and they clarified, I don't think I want to sit up here and be
00:07:36.720 hypocritical about certain things.
00:07:38.320 We've been on teams.
00:07:39.180 We played cards.
00:07:39.920 We played spades.
00:07:40.620 We played tonk.
00:07:41.920 I don't want to sit up here and act like I'm some perfect guy, and then I'll go to Vegas,
00:07:45.780 and I'll play some craps roulette.
00:07:46.780 There's nothing wrong with gambling.
00:07:48.100 The problem is where it gets sort of, like, masqueraded as, like, what's right?
00:07:52.360 What's wrong?
00:07:52.960 What can you do?
00:07:53.480 What can you not do?
00:07:54.120 And then you have things like FanDuel.
00:07:55.900 You have things like DraftKings.
00:07:56.960 You have things like Fantasy.
00:07:58.340 It's all sort of intermingled into the culture of sports and sports betting.
00:08:03.000 But if I can be specific about Trump, the reason that Trump has no involvement in this
00:08:07.200 is because there's been two separate operations ongoing for years.
00:08:10.600 The one operation, which Chauncey Phillips is involved in, is called Operation Royal Flush,
00:08:15.320 and the mafia was involved in that.
00:08:16.880 We can discuss that.
00:08:17.600 The second investigation was something called Operation Nothing But Net, which is the Terry
00:08:22.540 Rozier, and the Damon Jones thing, which is basically, take the under in the bet, because
00:08:28.400 this guy ain't going to do so good tonight.
00:08:30.440 But the thing with Chauncey, it's interesting.
00:08:33.340 You talked about it.
00:08:34.020 It's all these, like, run by the mafia, these x-ray glasses, these special things that are
00:08:38.860 going on, these signals.
00:08:42.360 Chauncey, it would seem to me, by the way, if you ask me who my top five ever players ever,
00:08:48.080 Chauncey would be in my top five.
00:08:50.500 Isaiah Thomas, Chauncey Phillips, D-Wade, straight up.
00:08:54.440 Miami and Detroit.
00:08:55.860 Chauncey was nothing more than a bait of a lure to get famous, or sorry, rich people to
00:09:03.800 play in this game.
00:09:04.700 In my opinion, I could be totally wrong.
00:09:07.040 Chauncey's a complete pawn here.
00:09:08.620 They said, come to the game.
00:09:09.640 They call it a face card.
00:09:11.060 We're going to bring someone like Chauncey to come in.
00:09:13.520 Like, you said you played with Vince Vaughn or all these people, these names.
00:09:16.480 So, all these rich people, believe me, nobody's broke at this table.
00:09:20.340 You're paying $10,000 hands, $50,000 hands.
00:09:23.720 You're losing $10 million bucks, and you come back the next night.
00:09:26.140 Some of these guys were excited to lose to a famous person like Chauncey.
00:09:30.580 That's all operation.
00:09:32.300 It was rigged.
00:09:32.700 It was fixed.
00:09:33.440 The second thing is a little weirder, because now you're talking about actual players and
00:09:37.800 actual games who are doing things, potentially, that are hindering the game.
00:09:43.840 So, Terry's one thing, and I know Terry plays in Miami.
00:09:45.780 I think we've already addressed that.
00:09:47.320 So, where are you going with this?
00:09:48.920 Here's the thing with Damon.
00:09:49.000 Because we're rehashing the same thing three times.
00:09:51.300 Well, I'll tell you where it gets weird here.
00:09:52.980 Tell us.
00:09:53.760 The thing with Damon Jones.
00:09:54.980 Do you know the one thing that you could say about Damon Jones' career?
00:09:58.120 And most people have never even heard about him.
00:09:59.340 What's that?
00:09:59.920 He is a LeBron guy.
00:10:02.080 He is as attached to LeBron as any player, potentially.
00:10:05.120 He played with Shaq in 2005, 2006, played for the Heat.
00:10:09.420 Leaves the Heat.
00:10:10.140 Goes to the place with LeBron.
00:10:11.660 Wins a championship.
00:10:13.180 Sorry.
00:10:13.660 Goes to the finals with LeBron, I believe, in 2007.
00:10:17.020 And then I believe he was one of the coaches on the championship team.
00:10:20.040 But make your point, Adam.
00:10:20.900 What's so special about this game?
00:10:22.160 Don't be shocked if this goes all the way to LeBron.
00:10:25.500 And I'm not saying LeBron had anything to do with it.
00:10:27.480 But don't be shocked if LeBron's name comes up
00:10:30.060 and whatever LeBron is working on trying to get a team in Vegas
00:10:32.840 gets severely affected by his relationship with Damon Jones.
00:10:36.540 Yeah.
00:10:36.760 So, the part where what Stephen A. is saying is that I agree with
00:10:41.740 is not that this is Trump's doing.
00:10:45.680 Yeah, I think the investigation started two years ago
00:10:47.760 and all of a sudden now it's coming up to a point like this.
00:10:49.640 But the part with Trump, you know, with the FBI talking about this,
00:10:54.520 when Tim Donahue got caught, was it FBI going on the public and announcing it?
00:10:58.240 I don't know.
00:10:58.940 I don't know what the case study is with that.
00:11:01.300 But do I think Cash called and said,
00:11:03.200 hey, here's what we just find out.
00:11:04.940 Should we do a press conference or not do a press conference?
00:11:07.560 Do I think Trump would say do a press conference?
00:11:09.820 Yeah, I think Trump would say do a press conference.
00:11:11.780 You think Cash is doing that press conference without getting approval by Trump?
00:11:14.680 No way in the world.
00:11:15.540 Trump's going to give the approval on that press conference.
00:11:17.880 And on top of that, with the whole thing when, you know, Trump, NBA finals,
00:11:23.260 everything that was going on with COVID, all that stuff that they did.
00:11:26.600 Yeah, all that BLM and, you know, end racism bullshit that they kept re-igniting racism.
00:11:33.880 Yeah, I think that part, remember, LeBron called the president a bum.
00:11:37.560 Bum.
00:11:38.380 Don't forget that.
00:11:39.180 LeBron called the president a bum.
00:11:42.040 Okay?
00:11:42.480 A bum.
00:11:43.100 So guess what?
00:11:44.760 You know, yeah, the president has a very long memory.
00:11:50.120 He's going to remember when he said that, you know, a bum after Steph Curry.
00:11:54.000 Is this Snopes or where are you on, Rob?
00:11:55.860 Is this?
00:11:56.520 BBC.
00:11:57.160 BBC.
00:11:57.680 There you go.
00:11:58.120 He called him a bum after the whole Steph Curry thing.
00:12:00.540 So great.
00:12:01.040 If that's what you want to do, Michael never did that.
00:12:03.940 Kobe never did that.
00:12:05.200 Magic never did that.
00:12:06.400 You're the first one that wants to do it.
00:12:07.620 You're the face of the league and you're using the NBA to do this.
00:12:09.780 No wonder today I'm in the car talking to my guy and my guy is saying the fact that
00:12:14.180 he can't wait for the date that LeBron retires and leaves the game.
00:12:17.760 You know, he made the game worse for the NBA.
00:12:19.460 So I think that part with Trump, you make Trump an enemy.
00:12:23.620 I saw a clip yesterday of Dana White.
00:12:25.400 I love what Dana says.
00:12:26.340 I fully relate to what Dana White said.
00:12:28.340 He says, I am a very good friend.
00:12:33.000 Very good friend.
00:12:34.340 I'm a very good person to be friends with.
00:12:36.880 But if you want to be my enemy, I'm also very good at that.
00:12:39.300 OK, you want to be an enemy of Trump?
00:12:42.420 He will never, ever forget until he gets his vengeance or an apology.
00:12:50.520 One of the two.
00:12:51.760 The apology, quick, you move on.
00:12:53.380 And the NBA has not been friends with Trump.
00:12:56.120 Let's face it.
00:12:57.300 The NBA has not been that friendly to him.
00:12:58.980 So in that part of the context, I do think there's something there that the president
00:13:03.820 wouldn't be happy about it.
00:13:04.940 I'm excited for 2026.
00:13:06.220 I think 2026 is going to be the greatest year in my lifetime in America.
00:13:09.300 You know, America is turning 250.
00:13:11.420 World Cup's coming here.
00:13:12.560 President Trump's turning 80.
00:13:14.200 We're going to have multiple times rates going lower.
00:13:16.060 I think the IPO market's going to open up.
00:13:18.280 And Vinny and I, we were out there.
00:13:20.120 I was looking at Vinny outside.
00:13:21.260 I said, I don't know what was going on.
00:13:22.540 So I'm walking outside.
00:13:23.620 Vinny's looking at the sky.
00:13:24.760 I'm like, Vinny, what are you doing?
00:13:25.720 Obviously, we're living.
00:13:26.860 We have 11 acres of land we own right on the airport.
00:13:29.760 So I was concerned.
00:13:30.860 I walked up.
00:13:31.420 Watch what Vinny was doing in this video.
00:13:32.960 Go ahead, Rob.
00:13:33.440 Great pose.
00:13:39.560 Come on, come on, come on, come on. 0.97
00:13:41.720 Hey, Vinny.
00:13:42.500 What's up, Pat?
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