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Do NBA teams/players point shave and fix games?

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by hakeemthagreat, Jun 9, 2016.

  1. freemaniam

    freemaniam 我是自由人

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    May be, just may be, we should give credits to the players whom defended.
     
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    No but refs fix games. Just watch any warriors games. They suck but the refs will lead them to victory
     
  3. oelman44

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    I've never understood why players would throw games and bet on them. I feel like there are other easier, safer ways to make way more money. Bet huge on a player prop, say bet on yourself to make under 2.5 3's, and just don't take any threes all game. I'm honestly surprised some players don't do this already.
     
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    Or just intentionally brick-em. Nobody would suspect a thing. If your an offensive coordinator for a team in football, how easy would it be to make bank on something like the over for your quarterbacks pass attempts?
     
  5. heypartner

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    Do you guys no anything about placing big prop bets at Vegas?

    I agree that throwing games is not likely. But betting on yourself is no easier, and quite possibly doomed to fail.

    For starters:
    • How would you place the bet?
    • How would you collect the money?
    • You'd have to do it in a way whereby the casino doesn't see a pattern on betting on the same player (yourself)
    • The IRS collects on all big bets "at the window," so casino must know a name?

    I'm just guessing, but seems you'd need a helper to place the bets, collect them, pay the IRS, and have an off-shore bank account to avoid the IRS as you save the money and use it.

    But most importantly, you can't draw the attention of the casinos for a strange pattern of betting that always wins.
     
  6. hakeemthagreat

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    Great game 7. But 2 VERY questionable turnovers by Curry late in that game. Both behind the back passes without even looking?
     
  7. CCity Zero

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    Yeah, he's done it a lot before... But I don't get his thought process there.. No time for showboating. I really think he just had a bad game, I mean 73-9 on the line?? But.. LOL if it's some players fixing too, then just make it wrestling, I'll have to find another sport (not a wrestling guy :) ). I have seen some questionable decisions by league to extend series in wcf/finals but other than that nothing like those Tim Donaghy games, I mean refs actually did decent job in game 7 tonight I thought.
     
  8. CCity Zero

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    Well last night **
     
  9. pippendagimp

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    curry turned the ball over on purpose b/c he knew green was going to get playoffs mvp if they won, and curry wasn't havin none of that
     
  10. youngshev03

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    Teams and players don't but the NBA sure does.
     

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