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Chauncey Billups - Letter to his younger self

Hank said:
Moved my post to the General NBA Thread. This thread is a stupid place to post this story.
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Mostly fair comment. This is a stupid thread for this topic, but I couldn't find a better one with his name in the title. However, since I rarely read the general NBA thread, I would have not seen this news. I guessed others may be like me, which might also be stupid,
 
slider said:
If it’s true his career in coaching is likely done
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Not just coaching career. If convicted he will receive a ban from the NBA and be ineligibe to be associated with the NCAA. This means no coaching, no broadcasting, no consultant positions. It would also make it so that the casinos can't hire him in an position.

Don't know if the on line gambling sites are under the same restrictions but a lot of them are affiliated with companies that have US based casinos so that would be excluded as well.

My assumption is that these charges have something to do with working with or providing information to gamblers. It doesn't sound like he just bet on NBA games which would ban him but not put him in the justice system.

As much as NBA coaches are paid it would be expected that he doesn't need the money but it isn't unheard of for even well paid people to bet beyond what they can cover at which point the bookies want to get paid back, in cash or in information.

For @Jens1893 and @manhattanbuff large scale legalized sports gambling has been going on in Europe for much longer than in the US. The amounts of money are huge, the passion for sport (especially soccer) is high, and organized crime is well established. The same influences that would cause a coach or athlete in the US who is already making large amounts of money to compromise himself with gamblers exist there. How do they handle this issue in Europe? Do that have more sophisticated enforcement? Does the general public just accept that a certain amount of corruption is going to exist in the sports they gamble on? Thoughts?

In the US I think we are just seeing the tip of the iceberg now with a few (mostly marginal) NBA players plus Chauncey involved. Hard to imagine that with the billions being wagered on a regular basis that at least some of this isn't pushing into the NFL and college football.
 
Chauncey is in deep ****.
Head of FBi had national press conference: "historic arrests" involving the NBA and Costra Nostra (the morons term). If they don't need him to cooperate, it looks bad

They are going for maximum publicity and effect. 2nd day of the NBA season. More radical commentators saying it's trump making war against professional athletes.
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Im going to hold on judgement with Chauncey, until more information comes out. By all accounts, Chauncey has been a stand up guy, citizen and person. I would trust him more than the current DIR of the FBI. It would make zero sense if this turns out he was involved with the mafia
 
BuffinCali said:
Im going to hold on judgement with Chauncey, until more information comes out. By all accounts, Chauncey has been a stand up guy, citizen and person. I would trust him more than the current DIR of the FBI. It would make zero sense if this turns out he was involved with the mafia
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This is some real cope. I highly highly highly doubt CB got arrested by the FBI, during a sting involving the Mafia, because of nothing. Why in the flying **** would he be on the FBI radar here if he was doing nothing?
 
Corey Trevorson said:
This is some real cope. I highly highly highly doubt CB got arrested by the FBI, during a sting involving the Mafia, because of nothing. Why in the flying **** would he be on the FBI radar here if he was doing nothing?
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Why is the FBI being used as a hit list of revenge for the president? I'm not saying he didn't do anything, but before I shame Chauncey, I would like to hear more information.
 
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