Gilbert Arenas is out on bail, after some pretty salacious charges concerning gambling and transnational crime and women hired to give massages. Coincidentally, that Arenas news dropped precisely as I was listening to an incredible episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out in which Pablo, Tom Haberstroh, and Amin Elhassan narrate how a guy called Moose and his crypto/gambling crew ended up knowing a lot of non-public information about a federal gambling probe into NBA guard Malik Beasley. And that story seems to have some deep ties to another NBA gambling scandal involving Johntay Porter.
All of which is to say: the world feels a little like what they warned us might happen if gambling got out of control.
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