David Cohn (guest / Crane & Company)

And then they would take their money through rigged shuffle machines, through x-ray tables, pretty much any instrument and gadget that James Bond ever had was being used in this scenario.

And not for nothing, Ben, I think it is humorous that the night before Chauncey Billups' arrest here,

He used the phrase, let the chips fall where they may.

So sort of an apropos idiom there the day before you were arrested for a poker scheme.

I was really interested to hear your take on this because I agree with that point 100%.

One situation, you have a mafia family who's trying to take people's money and they're using famous people to do it.

And it's sort of an isolated incident.

Not that it's not nothing in Chauncey Billups.

Look, all of these guys are facing 20 years in prison, even though they may not be held right now until their court appearance.

Obviously, this is an ongoing investigation.

But I agree with you 100% because gambling is legalized now, and you have incidents like yesterday.

ESPN is reporting on this story, and they have ESPN bets at the bottom of the screen, and that is not going away.

And so, you know, part of me, Ben, you and I have discussed at length the Black Sox scandal and shoeless Joe Jackson.

It was bad enough.

In an era where you weren't getting paid a lot of money, but you had no respect for the game that you were playing or the teammates that you had, it was bad enough then.

But in an era, contemporarily here, where you're getting paid millions and millions of dollars, these players, even if you're just on a roster, you make more than doctors make.

There's absolutely no excuse that you would go out and just throw everything away so that you can win a couple bets.

And it sounds like there were multiple franchises

that were involved in this across these 11 states with these indictments.

I think you will be happy to know that the Boston Celtics, they did not come up in this investigation as far as I'm aware.