{"id":16563,"date":"2025-10-25T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16563\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T19:17:09","slug":"these-are-the-greedy-bosses-who-knew-gambling-would-ruin-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16563\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the greedy bosses who knew gambling would ruin sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently I\u2019m expected to take a victory lap for frequently predicting the inevitable. Yeah, I\u2019m Erasmus for warning that greed corrupts and gambling invites corruption. Who otherwise knew?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the mob allegedly came to own an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/23\/sports\/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA head coach, Chauncey Billups<\/a>, and, according to the federal indictment, \u201cown him\u201d they did. Crime families don\u2019t hire part-time help; they don\u2019t have per diem rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why would the Mafia lean on a high-profile guy such as Billups to be one of their guys? Because there\u2019s plenty more games \u2014 poker or basketball \u2014 to fix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But my outrage is aimed at those who bought in despite knowing better \u2014 a lot better.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently I\u2019m expected to take a victory lap for frequently predicting the inevitable. Yeah, I\u2019m Erasmus for warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11759,6112,10377,11760,10429,21,9,11,10,11761,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-16563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adam-silver","tag-betting","tag-chauncey-billups","tag-equal-time","tag-gambling","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-roger-goodell","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}