Mike Vorkunov
Appearances
Apple News Today
Their travel generates billions for the U.S. They’re rethinking their plans.
So what he did in his January 27, 2024 game is that he claimed he had an eye injury, which allowed him to leave the game early and not come back. And so that the people who are betting on him, if they bet, hey, he'd have fewer than this many points, fewer than this many rebounds, fewer than this many assists, they all won their winnings, right?
Apple News Today
Their travel generates billions for the U.S. They’re rethinking their plans.
And then when he played in the March 20, 2024 game, he told them he would leave the game with an illness.
Apple News Today
Their travel generates billions for the U.S. They’re rethinking their plans.
Getting an NBA player to admit that he was manipulating his own performance to help other people bet on his prop bets a decade ago would have been a tremendous scandal for the NBA, right? Like that eats at the very integrity of sports.
Apple News Today
Their travel generates billions for the U.S. They’re rethinking their plans.
One of the things that everyone is trying to really reckon with is whether this happened because sports gambling is so much more ubiquitous or if this was caught because sports gambling is now legalized. So I'm curious to see where this all ends up. I'm curious to see how high it might go. And I truly don't have a prognostication on that.