One minute, Victor Wembanyama’s spectacular 40-point, 15-rebound game against the Mavericks on the second night of the NBA season is the sport’s biggest story.
The next minute, it’s barely an afterthought.
The NBA woke up Thursday to any league’s worst nightmare, with multiple prominent names — including longtime player Terry Rozier, currently on the Miami Heat, and Portland Trail Blazers coach and Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups — at the center of a probe by the FBI.
Though there have been sports betting scandals in the past and rising worries that more — and more severe — gambling issues would develop as leagues at both the professional and college level increasingly get in business with gambling companies, the early-morning arrests of Rozier and Billups are unprecedented.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
