Bob Voulgaris

Smith didn't shoot the ball and held it after the missed free throw or whatever.

Yeah, I can only imagine being a gambler on that game, by the way, and watching that happen and just be like... Well, yeah, what interested me about that was after the fact, the legend was that LeBron punched a blackboard after that game or punched something, a wall, and his shooting hand was injured.

Right.

And so my question was like, if we're going to do all this talk about, like if we're going to embrace gambling and talk about gambling, which was kind of like the topic of my questions to him were just like, how are you going to enforce this?

And do you have, are you worried at all?

And I was kind of like, and I don't mean to disparage Adam because he, I just think he was kind of like, what the fuck is this guy talking about?

But he was like very like adamant that I was, what I was saying was absurd.

My point was, was that the Cavaliers knew about this.

This was the biggest betting event in the NBA.

It's the finals.

And only after the fact was it released that LeBron had that.

And I get why you would do that because as a Cleveland Cavaliers coaching staff, you don't want

your opponent to know this because now you can lay off LeBron, you can guard his drives more, you can not worry about him shooting, all this other stuff.

And so my point was just like, hey, if you're going to get in bed with gambling, how are you going to deal with this?

Because I promise you this is affecting the integrity of what you're trying to do.

Someone has information and it's one thing to monitor point shaving, it's one thing to monitor this, it's one thing, but that's a big part of it.

And so I just brought it up and I talked about how, because I know, actually Casey Smith was in the room also and he was a Mavs athletic trainer at the time.

And Casey was very diligent about the injury report.

It was always released at the same amount of time.

It was always released with accurate information.