Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former NBA player Damon Jones were arrested Thursday over their alleged participation in two major illegal gambling schemes — one involving bets placed on NBA games, the other involving underground poker games — investigated by the FBI.
Working with organized crime groups, NBA “insiders” such as Rozier and Jones would pass along confidential information in exchange for some of the proceeds, said Joseph Nocella, the interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. “They relied on corrupt individuals, including Jones and Rozier. They also used misused information obtained during long-standing friendships they had with NBA players and coaches,” he said. (more)
However, Stephen A Smith sees something more nefarious afoot, as President Trump is executing a conspiracy of criminal investigations against the cultural sports of black Americans. Smith notes the NBA, NFL and WNBA are all likely targets of a vast FBI sting operation, intended to target people of color who are engaged in sports and conducting criminal activity. There’s also the possibility of Russians being involved in the set-up. WATCH:
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Can you imagine the brain function that leads to this type of a conclusion?
First God created the idiot.
That was just for practice.
The He created Stephen A Smith.
Lucifer created Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Hamas terrorist supporting comrades of his in the Democrat party. Lucifer even made Jerry Nadler while practicing to make Schumer.
Smith has a face for radio yet here we are. Recall Juicy Smolett claimed PDJT and Trump supporters “must be paying close attention” to Juicy’s anti-PDJT antics which Juicy further claimed led to the Maga Midnight takedown in -20 degree/2am weekday winter weather in Chicago. Despite his conviction for orchestrating an obvious criminal hoax, Juicy is back on television. What do these clowns need to do to kicked off television permanently? Nobody cared about Juicy or his silly Empire show and that goes for the WNBA too. Smith and Juicy should join forces.
And all this time I thought Jasmine was the dumbest Democrat on the planet.
Dollar Store Obama: “Hold my beer”.
Crazie Morono: “Hold my beer”.
AOC/DC: “Hold my beer”.
Guam Johnson: “Hold my beer”.
Smucky Schemer: “Hold my beer”.
Elic “Fang Fang” Fartwell: “Hold my beer”.
Don’t stop now, there’s lots more material to work with
Grusome Newsum: hold my hair gel, and my napa pinot noir
Joe Malarkey: hold my, uh, hold my, uh, you know, the thing
Biden was president when the investigation started in 2023, so he’s in on it with Trump.
I know the NFL, NHL, NBA and MLB, but what’s that last one?
FBI. All crooked.
WNBA? Women’s National Basketball League.
Gates are down, lights are on, but the train ain’t comin’…
Like the lack of Affirmative Action and DEI in Football & Basketball in the players ranks while having a “Rooney Rule” for the Coaching staff?
Racial Program for the 21st Century Stevie? I think Smitty is paranoid and has TDS like many mentally unhinged Democrats have.
https://castefootball.us/
I have a theory. The covid vaccine has changed peoples brains enabling them to spout such cr@p
I completely agree.
“The covid vaccine has changed peoples brains enabling them to spout such cr@p”
I’m incline to agree, but with one notation. George Carlin made light of the stupidity of the average person years before those vaccines became available:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that” – George Carlin
Great quote, and very true.
George Carlin was brilliant.
and on the 8th day Hollyweird was created to nourish the stupid people.
Violent clashes erupted in Moscow as migrants armed with metal rods and shovels fought, injuring three people. Locals said they heard yelling in an “unfamiliar language.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/1982129584163201125#m
Russia won’t let the perpetrators live long.
Off with their ears!
“Violent clashes erupted in Moscow as migrants armed with metal rods and shovels fought,…..”
Were they using those new high capacity, assault metal rods?
Not sure what the language is exactly, but I’d bet the religion of peace is involved.
“Cultural enrichers” and Antifa merge and assault the native Rooskie population?
Next thing you know, trump will cause people to be bored of the wnba!
I wish we actually had teams of forensic experts that would go thru all sports to show us how corrupt they all are.
NBA funneling money to keep the WNBA alive while sports teams enjoy tax exempt status breaking all kinds of laws
I saw so much in Harness Horse Racing usually 2 of the Meadowlands biggest jockey’s. I learned to stay away from them.
Didn’t you watch easy money? When Pesci tried to rush the track? Never bet harness.
Half the entertainment was watching the sick degenerate gamblers and their antics.
I will bet my socks that paying college sports players is not a good thing and will take down many players as it wades through the weeds. We have already seen some disturbing antics as this continues to play out.
Of course Russia is involved!! Aren’t they involved in everything? 🤔😬🤪
Indeed they are, Deb. My electric bill was $20 higher last month.
Yep. You guessed it. Rooskies!
I suspected as much when I received a Russian doll. Come to find out the little suckers were hiding inside each other!
I thought Steve had said some reasonable things lately.
Black black blackity black. It’s so tiresome.
This song pretty much somes up the non sense to miss get notice by others:
Games people play ( on others )
https://rumble.com/v6ilida-games-people-play-alan-parsons-project.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=1c3b9118-8531-4706-80f7-9b17f1f3b737
🎶 🎶
if there’s something strange in the NBA,
who ya gonna blame?
THE RUSSIANS!
if it’s something weird and it don’t look good,
who ya gonna blame?
THE RUSSIANS!
i ain’t afraid of no Russians!
(well, you get the idea😂🤣)
Pretty sure there’s a ghostbusters in Dallas.
Someone paid this motor mouth some attention and even suggested he run for President. Now he thinks he is somebody. He needs to stick to sports.
This attention whore must zoom every morning with his press flacks to brainstorm how to gain media buzz with his moronic and self-serving hot-takes. Imagine how exhausting it would be to have to deal with this bombastard on a regular basis.
This guy is a low information clown. Dirty sports bookies as well as organized crime, have their hooks in every major professional sport.
And College
What? brain function.? Where..? The stupid people go through life with no clue what they are missing and nothing can fix it..
If you ain’t committing crimes, you have NOTHING to worry about!
If you ARE committing crimes, you have LOTS TO WORRY ABOUT!!
That’s ALL you should be talking about!
He lost his black card with conservative posts so now he’s going back to the well that got him here.
That’s basically all this is. The guy’s a moron, and now he thinks he can run for president.
consult the writings of Amy Wax for an analysis of the cognitive function of Mr. Smith
Welcome to Hotel Hamas: 150 terrorists released by Israel under Gaza peace deal are staying at luxury resort alongside unsuspecting Western tourists
Hamas terrorists released under the Gaza peace deal are staying in a five-star hotel alongside unsuspecting Western tourists.
Shocking Report:
150 Hamas terrorists, released in a deal with Israel, are staying at a luxury 5-star hotel in Cairo, the Renaissance Cairo Mirage City, alongside unsuspecting tourists, according to the Daily Mail.
Among them:
– Mahmoud Issa, a senior Hamas military figure
– Izz al-Din al-Hammara, linked to the 2004 Jerusalem bus bombing (8 killed, 60 wounded)
– Samir Abu Nima, responsible for a Jerusalem attack killing 6, including an 11-year-old The hotel remains open to regular guests.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15223429/Hamas-dangerous-terrorists-released-Israel-staying-luxury-resort.html
And Stephan Smith was staying in this hotel?
Is that the connection?
I don’t think your comment registered. Just sayin’…
Some 154 of the 250 fanatics who were freed are currently staying in the Marriott’s five-star Renaissance Cairo Mirage City Hotel in the Egyptian capital, a Daily Mail investigation has found.
Families can still book in to stay at the hotel without being aware of the dangers.
Undercover journalists booked into the resort and stayed amongst the murderous jihadists, who include a member of Isis and a senior Hamas special forces commander.
Today we publish shocking images showing these hardened killers and extremists living in the lap of luxury beside sunbathing Western tourists.
The Daily Mail understands that some may soon be moved on to live in nearby tourist destinations such as Qatar, Turkey and Tunisia which are hugely popular with British holidaymakers.
The Daily Mail understands that the convicted terrorists will apply for local visas and residence permits to be able to melt back into society, although they will be monitored by local security services.
Professor Anthony Glees, emeritus professor at the University of Buckingham, said: ‘These people are our sworn enemies. They will cut off the heads of British soldiers and kill left, right and centre.
‘We must not let them collect together. There can be no hiding place for these people. Otherwise you are setting up a terrorist army in exile – it will be Hezbollah 2.0.’
A former Israeli intelligence officer known as Guy C added: ‘There are no restrictions on their movements in these countries.
‘They can walk freely, travel to Europe – even the UK – receive donations from naive supporters, and gain backing from protestors who already sympathise with them.
Stephen Smith is owned by DISNEY. He’s unemployable anywhere else at a decent level of pay.
He also has a Mon – Fri 2 hour live sports centric talk radio program on SiriusXM satellite radio.
ESPN, another Walt Disney company.
These conspiracy theorists are arguing with their imagination.
Stealing that, thanks
“Can you imagine the brain function that leads to this type of a conclusion?”
I’m thinking more of a brain dysfunction.
Because having a gambling site as one of your sponsors is always a good idea. This scandal brought to you by Draft Kings.
Amen.
Ruining all sports at all levels.
I wonder if this outcry is really a way for him to warn his friends to stop cheating before they get caught, too. He seems to be shouting pretty loud to just be making a point. It sounds like a warning.
I’ve attempted a few latin family languages.
Maybe I should have learned Russian.
That way we can plot our nefarious racist crimes in public.
Sort of a secret handshake thingy…
At some level, he was either in on it and making bets profiting handsomely, or he knew about it and said nothing.
Screamin’ Smith has been ignorantly nuts for a couple decades.
Ironically a huge percentage of the hardcore Trail Blazer fans are happy with Billups out and Splitter taking over.
Smith went from strictly talking sports to occasionally commenting on politics but admitting he knew little about it to thinking he’s some kind of pundit and going on Hannity’s show. This outburst shows why he should’ve stayed in his lane. Thing is, he’s gotten a massive new contract which has swelled his head considerably. So this probably won’t be the end of his cockeyed commentaries.
Is it personal? Trump could have shut this down (eg Epstein). He didn’t. Who cares if this might be a bit personal? The beginning and end is… these athletes were arrested because they were indicted. Stephan A is a pathological liar and a clownish blowhard who has POTUS aspirations.
Does this dolt Smith think La Cosa Nostra is part of the Negro League or something? He is not playing with a full deck of race cards.
Ya know, those Sicilians have infiltrated the black sports players. You always hear Italians breaking out into jive. 😂
My Sicilian grandma speaks perfect, um, ebonics
“Stephen A Smith Claims There’s a Cultural Conspiracy Being Carried Out by President Trump Against Black Sports Organizations –………”
Pete Rose, hardest hit…….
That he used the phrase “black sports organizations” is the giveaway here. He got out of his lane when he made a few sane comments recently, got blowback for it, and is now retreating back to his leftist lane via the race card. And now he has delusions of being president, so more attacks against President Trump accusing him of being racist can be expected. These people are so predictable.
TDS last week morphed into two variations of BDS (and I’m not talking “Bush Derangement Syndrome” — which we all remember was a thing) — first:
. Ballroom Derangement Syndrome; and then
. Betting Derangement Syndrome.
Steven A. Smith/Muslim Commie Mondami 2028 — Make America Uganda Finally!
/Hey, if the foreign-born DogEater can become POTUS, why not another couple of DogEaters?
It makes a sane person wonder how someone can say such things. And it makes me wonder how stupid are the viewers that care what he says.
But what he says is dangerous. It’s incendiary and it could serve as motivation for a viewer who shares his madness. The rhetoric from the left is maniacal.
This is so retarded, nobody will buy into it.
By his logic, anyone who has dark skin should be allowed to commit any crime they want.
He is clearly a racist black supremacist.
When I first read about AOC’s green new deal, I literally lol’d. I’m not laughing now, people really are that stupid, and worse.
Poor Steve. Didn’t get the memo that “Russia Russia Russia!” is no longer in play. And neither is “racisssss!”
Too dumb to read the room, he lumps these 2 tired canards together.
Bet Putin, if this drivel is even on his radar, is howling with laughter. Trump too!
There’s a meme here, somewhere….
He’s a Russist!
Smith needs to focus on giving baseball scores, he is way over his head with this neo politician stuff
I can proudly say I never was a “follower” of organized sports and never had a basset ball jones.
That dog don’t hunt, huh?
I got burnt out on jive talk during the Obama admin. This guy is such an ass. Someone needs to look into how Mr. Smith makes his money. Me thinks he doth protest too much…..
Hannity’s good friend….
As a sports’ lover, I’ve had to deal with Smith over the years–
He’s a black man doing black face–made a living doing sports as Stepin Fetchit.
Jason Witlock revealed him for the liar he is–lied about playing basketball at college, the college even helping him to cover up his lies.
I’d like to know what Dem went to him after the Harris loss, praised him and told him, “You know what you’d be good at…..and here’s a way for you to get your name out there….”
Probably Clyburn!
Useful Idiot for The Left.
SAS’s purpose is the stop the draining of black males to the GOP and Trump.
He pretends to attack the Dems so as to appear unbiased, but the Dems are using him to cause blacks to doubt Trump’s motives and stop the bleeding.
I read some sports blogs, mostly football-related, and there are a lot of black males wise to the Dems and their treatment of blacks as plantation servants to Dem politicians, but there are many who behave the same way white progressive Karens do–with no logic at all.
If the basketball scandal spreads, it will indeed implicate more players, and as most players are black, it’s very possible the Dems will jump on the conspiracy theory to rile up blacks.
SAS is thinking, “If you want black votes, you don’t fiddle with NBA basketball and rob black folks of their heroes.”
Can you not hear the refrain from Jasmine: “Why you not arresting WHITE ATHLETES????”
Hey, if you’re not corrupt and in on the take you got nothing to worry about.
If you’ve been on the wrong side , yeah you better watch out.
PDJT is not having it and you will get the hammer.
Why is this hard for stupid people to understand?
It’s as basic as it gets.
Play stupid games …
As the story broke the other day, the media made the lede the players; the lede should have been THE MAFIA and its corruption of what we love–our sports heroes and teams.
Of course, just as guilty–the corporate headquarters of the NBA, the NFL, MLB, etc.
I’m interested in if and when this explodes with news of corruption in the NFL.
I cannot imagine the absence of brain function that would lead to this conclusion.
Stephen A Smith is a Clown in America Sports Talk Mouthpiece, thus, nothing that comes out of his mouth can be regarded with any degree of seriousness.
I’m sorry to say this, but Stephen A. Smith has shown that his thinking is screwed up. As a member of G.A. (gamblers anonymous) I could and did try to tell others that putting gambling within an hours drive of every American would lead to trouble. Now, it has hit fad status as it can be done over TV and don’t forget that corner of the grocery store and corner markets where gambling is wide open.
When I entered the teaching field, I often worked in the summer to teach various classes in black neighborhoods. I was shocked on day to open the door to go home. I stepped into the middle of a crap game at a beautiful new high school (black community) and didn’t exactly know what to say. I just kept walking and they kept throwing the dice. That was before I discovered gambling and its lure and its addiction.
When I used to visit the casinos with an hour of where I lived, the black population ruled the gambling playground and they still do. Why is anyone shocked?
The legalization of so call marijuana and the designer drugs that are being sold in multiple states have now evolved in a mail order, quick order product market that can’t be good for mental health. We read weekly about people doing weird and evil things with and to students and wonder why?
Some things should never be endorsed as legal without penalty. I could have told you that sports gambling was not a good idea and poor old Pete Rose suffered disgrace (white man) for many years. Now his behavior is common. SAD world we have become.
They have apps for that. No need to drive anywhere
How stupid. The minute that sports betting was allowed, it opened up the door to this. What foreign country was responsible when Pete Rose was caught affecting baseball bets? Maybe Smith should look at the players involved in this sting, rather than blaming it on a foreign country. Oh, and by the way, it’s not Russia that is infiltrated with teh NBA. It’s China. Duh