Gambling in the NBA is a huge no-no. If players are found guilty of manipulating outcomes, they could lose tens of millions of dollars or even be banned for life. But does that stop some stars from engaging in such activities? No. Sebastian Telfair recently described just how serious gamblers NBA athletes can be, even recalling an incident where he himself dabbled in it with Clippers Head Coach Tyronn Lue.<\/p>\n
This revelation comes at a time when two popular NBA stars in Malik Beasley and Terry Rozier, are under investigation<\/a> for reportedly violating the league\u2019s gambling rules. Both continue to play for the Detroit Pistons<\/a> and the Miami Heat<\/a>, respectively, but if found to be culprits, they could be barred from playing in the NBA again, like Michael Porter Jr.\u2019s brother, Jontay.<\/p>\n The number of players who actually gamble but don\u2019t make headlines is likely large, if Telfair\u2019s <\/a>story is anything to go by. That\u2019s not to say everyone is out there fixing games. Sometimes, it\u2019s just done for the thrill of it.<\/p>\n \u201cGambling is huge in the NBA,\u201d the former Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> man said in an interview with DJVLAD. \u201cTy Lue, who coaches in the NBA. I remember being in Vegas gambling with him, and s*** I don\u2019t even gamble, like, that\u2019s not my cup of tea.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n What was absurd was the sheer amount of money being thrown around. Sure, NBA players are used to seeing millions, so a few thousand dollars on a poker table might not raise eyebrows. But a hundred thousand laid across? Even Telfair was stunned. \u201cI\u2019m sitting there, watching them gamble and shit. I remember Damon Jones losing, and he blamed it on me,\u201d he recalled<\/a>, simply because it was the first time Telfair had joined one of his games.<\/p>\n Telfair later revealed they had lost about $100,000 that day. A staggering sum to walk away from, but for these serial gamblers, it was just more motivation to try and win it back. After all, according to Telfair, NBA players gamble on the plane \u201cevery day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we\u2019re traveling, we\u2019re gambling. But not that type of gambling, we\u2019re playing a specific game that we play in the league Bourr\u00e9e,\u201d he concluded. Sounds harmless, and hopefully, that\u2019s all it was.<\/p>\n A little poker here and there isn\u2019t really catastrophic. But when gambling and sports betting go hand in hand, as seen in the past with figures like Beasley and Porter, things turn ugly. Just stick to Bourr\u00e9e on flights, maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gambling in the NBA is a huge no-no. If players are found guilty of manipulating outcomes, they could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-78436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}