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Understood: The Big Bet · October 26 · 47 min

E4: All Bets are Off

When NBA player Jontay Porter and his co-conspirators are caught fixing games and face the consequences, the message professional sports want to send is clear: legalized sports betting is bringing law and order to a once-seedy underworld. But is it? It turns out Porter may have fixed more games than the NBA or the FBI realized, and moreover, he isn’t the only elite athlete implicated in a betting scandal. Featuring Danny Funt, Anthony Milton, Tom Haberstroh

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When NBA player Jontay Porter and his co-conspirators are caught fixing games and face the consequences, the message professional sports want to send is clear: legalized sports betting is bringing law and order to a once-seedy underworld. But is it? It turns out Porter may have fixed more games than the NBA or the FBI realized, and moreover, he isn’t the only elite athlete implicated in a betting scandal. 


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Danny Funt, Anthony Milton, Tom Haberstroh

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