{"id":247059,"date":"2025-10-23T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247059\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:47:09","slug":"consider-this-from-npr-npr-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/247059\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761256029_605_\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/2900x1631+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F7f%2Ff1%2F71874dd2488ca92a5b78b421a646%2F9d0ed92f-b5a8-4308-af54-578f899e4bb1.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>                    Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>            toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The FBI arrested multiple people tied to the NBA in a wide-ranging illegal gambling probe. The NBA and other major sports leagues have been deepening ties with the lucrative sports-betting industry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone explains the implications of this scandal on the NBA and sports betting in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at<a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> plus.npr.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/23\/nx-s1-5584088\/mailto:considerthis@npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">considerthis@npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This episode was produced by Michael Levitt and Daniel Ofman. Additional reporting in this episode from Becky Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was edited by Russell Lewis, Justine Kenin and our executive producer Sami Yenigun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a press conference. Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-247059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}