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RE: Damon Jones, and the Lakers being named:

 

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The Feb. 9, 2023, game between the Bucks and Lakers that was referenced in the FBI’s investigation into sports betting was one that LeBron James did not play in. He was ruled out due to ankle soreness.

According to the indictment, Damon Jones, a friend of James’ who was not a formal employee of the Lakers, sold or tried to profit from non-public information so that others could bet on it, including alleged co-conspirators Eric Earnest and Marves Fairley. It was about who would not be playing or if they would pull themselves out of games early. Before the Feb. 9, 2023 Lakers game against the Bucks, Jones texted an unnamed co-conspirator that a player was out and they should bet the Bucks. The player was not on the injury report yet. He also gave information on the 2023-24 Lakers, including Player 4, who the DOJ said was one of the Lakers’ best players that season.

 

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The Lakers are currently not available to comment. Team and league sources said that Damon Jones wasn’t an employee of the Lakers at the time of these allegations. He was allowed to be in restricted spaces such as planes and locker rooms as he worked with LeBron James.

 

Pretty casual of the Lakers to name-drop LeBron, even if he's fully innocent.  Pretty telling of the team's current relationship with him as well.

 

 

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RE: Damon Jones, and the Lakers being named:
 
The Feb. 9, 2023, game between the Bucks and Lakers that was referenced in the FBI’s investigation into sports betting was one that LeBron James did not play in. He was ruled out due to ankle soreness.
According to the indictment, Damon Jones, a friend of James’ who was not a formal employee of the Lakers, sold or tried to profit from non-public information so that others could bet on it, including alleged co-conspirators Eric Earnest and Marves Fairley. It was about who would not be playing or if they would pull themselves out of games early. Before the Feb. 9, 2023 Lakers game against the Bucks, Jones texted an unnamed co-conspirator that a player was out and they should bet the Bucks. The player was not on the injury report yet. He also gave information on the 2023-24 Lakers, including Player 4, who the DOJ said was one of the Lakers’ best players that season.
 
The Lakers are currently not available to comment. Team and league sources said that Damon Jones wasn’t an employee of the Lakers at the time of these allegations. He was allowed to be in restricted spaces such as planes and locker rooms as he worked with LeBron James.
 
Pretty casual of the Lakers to name-drop LeBron, even if he's fully innocent.  Pretty telling of the team's current relationship with him as well.
 
 

I mean if you could get out of paying a 41 YO 54M and a LeHeadache, wouldn’t you?
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1 hour ago, Vic Mackey said:

Disagree. Absolutely nothing came from the Tim Donaghy scandal. They just made him the fall guy, swept it under the rug and moved forward. Nothing has changed at all in the NBA since then. At all. Can't see much coming from this, either. 

I wish it wasn't the case but with all these sports promoting gambling hard, this isn't any surprise. 

Yep.  Scott Foster had the Donaghy stink all over him (still does) and they didn't even investigate.  Just made it all go away after Donaghy went down.

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2 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Yep.  Scott Foster had the Donaghy stink all over him (still does) and they didn't even investigate.  Just made it all go away after Donaghy went down.

Yep, Scott Foster is still reffing big time games today, even has the moniker of the Series Extender. Players speak openly about seeing him in the refs assignment and tell us exactly how the game will go down and sure enough, it does. He was heavily involved in the Denver/OKC series, reffing in 2 critical games, game 2 and 7. Both went the same way. heavily slanted towards OKC. And really, it isn't him personally. He just completes the task the NBA wants and does it well. Tells me all I need to know about this league and how un-serious they are to beat these corruption scandals. They don't give a shit as long as the viewers and advertisers stick around.

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1 minute ago, Vic Mackey said:

Yep, Scott Foster is still reffing big time games today, even has the moniker of the Series Extender. Players speak openly about seeing him in the refs assignment and tell us exactly how the game will go down and sure enough, it does. He was heavily involved in the Denver/OKC series, reffing in 2 critical games, game 2 and 7. Both went the same way. heavily slanted towards OKC. And really, it isn't him personally. He just completes the task the NBA wants and does it well. Tells me all I need to know about this league and how un-serious they are to beat these corruption scandals. They don't give a shit as long as the viewers and advertisers stick around.

OKC was 5-0 with Foster reffing their games in the playoffs.

Nothing to see here, though.

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20 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

Shit, Caruso getting away with playing that way is why they won last year.  They don't get past the Nuggets without him being able to do that, and it's shit basketball to watch. Nobody wants to watch the less talented players just maul the more talented players every possession.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46687886/thunder-alex-caruso-suffers-concussion-placed-protocol

I think this is the appropriate way to address Caruso matching up with bigs.

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