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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
So I have two questions.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
One, it just seems to confirm like a big part of bearding then is to perform the theater of incompetence.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
You want to throw them off the scent that you know anything about anything.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Correct.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
The second question is, is that the feds or is that your dog?
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Your dog, well, I was going to say.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Allegedly beaming in is the co-owner of a Spanish football team, Bob's dog.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
The perfect accomplice.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
He's just going to stay quiet and chill out.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
So one of the secrets that Bob was just referring to earlier, one of the biggest reasons he went from working at the Winnipeg airport in his 20s to making more than $100 million betting on the NBA, is an insight that he kept silent about for years and years and years.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
But then he told me about it one day several years ago when we were randomly having lunch in Boston, I think.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
And to fully understand this secret, I just need to explain to you a couple of sports betting 101 terms.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Because, in case you didn't know, an over is when you bet that the total number of points a team scores will be over the line.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
The number that a bookmaker sets.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
You can bet overs or unders on individual halves of games.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
But what happened is that one day while he was, you know, getting his sports betting career going, Bob realized something, something nobody else did.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
And eventually, Bob wound up staring at a simple NBA rule that I personally had never spent a single second thinking about.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Because you may generally know that NBA teams, home and away, switch baskets at halftime.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
But the thing I never thought about is that in any given game, the away team, the visiting team, gets to choose which basket they're going to shoot on first.
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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis
Which means that the visiting team will have their bench, where the other 10 guys on the team are sitting for the entire game, alongside the entire coaching staff, right in front of their defense in the first half, or far more commonly, if they so choose, in the second.