Professional sports and illegal gambling have always had an uneasy relationship, but the NBA gambling scandal of 2025 crossed a threshold the league had never reached before. On October 23, 2025, the FBI arrested 34 people in two coordinated federal operations linking active NBA figures to illegal sports betting rings and Mafia-backed poker games. Here […]
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