If there is a single takeaway from the ongoing NBA betting scandal, which is laid out in painstaking detail below through court documents, it is this:
Prosecutors say it’s all connected. The whole thing. The alleged insider trading and rigged poker games. The NBA players (current and former) and coaches. The gamblers. The accusations made of them are all linked, either directly or through a web reminiscent of an old corkboard in an FBI warehouse, covered in headshots with string.
On Oct. 23, FBI director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella Jr. announced that 34 people were charged in separate illegal gambling schemes involving NBA personnel. Almost all of them have been arraigned and pleaded…