Pablo Torre reveals Antonio Blakeney, former member of the Chicago Bulls and Jiang Su Dragons, as ‘Co-Conspirator #1’ in the NBA Gambling scandal involving Terry Rozier for fixing games in the Chinese Basketball Association in 2023.
Pablo hyped everyone up for “Antonio Blakeney”
I advise you listen to it, the way these dudes were snitching on themselves is hilarious
“The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and Chinese basketball.” - actual quote
I mean, they’re also fucking with college kids, which is super bad imo
As much as NIL is kind of destroying college basketball, one fringe benefit is it makes it much harder for folks to take advantage of college players in schemes like this.
I thought it was gonna be paolo lmao
Paolo is just ass. No scandals just inefficient hoops
The ending is what ties everything together, it’s crazy how openly stupid these guys are.
Not even the nba
That’s exactly his shtick and I’m surprised this sub hasn’t caught on.
He’s done some great reporting but a lot of the rest of it is hyping up and exaggerating things for click bait and dramatics.
It takes him like ten hours to get to the fucking point because of him pumping up the dramatics.
I’m frankly really sick of this dude. Props for the reporting but he’s horrible and insufferable to listen to. Just the embodiment of the phrase of smelling your own farts.
This is exactly why the world is in the state that it’s in right now because excellent, in depth reporting gets hand waved away due to someone being slightly annoying about it.
No it’s not. It’s being billionaires fund fascists to tear down society and make everything worse. Expecting proper behaviour from a journalist isn’t the reason why. Get a touch of reality.
Of course that’s the main driving factor. However a refusal to engage with actual information just because you take minor issues with how it’s presented is another factor behind the rise of misinformation.
Honestly I don’t really care if he’s sorta insufferable if the reporting is good, and it is. I don’t have to like everyone if they do their job well. And he’s done his job well so far.
So guy that was already named and charged, ok.
Correct, but he is the co-conspirator 1 that hasn’t been confirmed in the rozier case
He seems like he’s chasing the high of breaking the Kawhi story, but this is like trying heroin for the first time then chasing it with a 5 hour energy.
Wild comparison but on point lmao
Imma have to trust you on that bro.
The NFLPA story was the tipping point, prior to that there was a lot less ego and whistleblower energy in the pod. I used to watch most episodes, but the attention from the Aspiration scandal brought out a pompous side of Pablo that I don’t care to watch.
The high he got from breaking the Kawhi story absolutely ruined him. He seems to be obsessed with staying in the limelight now. Posting memes with himself shopped in them, responding to nobodies on twitter to defend himself, hyping every small thing he can find.
Most journalists aren’t doing these things. He absolutely wasn’t ready to be this mainstream.
He absolutely wasn’t ready to be this mainstream.
Or that’s just his personality.
Those two things have very different effects
He kind of lost me when he said he thought Flagg to the Mavs was rigged. Like, come on
He was saying an NBA owner told him that, which is a very newsworthy report. Regardless of how unlikely it is that it was rigged.
He was relaying the beliefs of other owners
As a jazz fan I think we need to look more into this. I’m willing to hear him out atleast :)
I mean you’d have to be an idiot to believe it was just a coincidence….
No, you’d have to be an idiot to believe it wasn’t, that’s why it’s disappointing that an otherwise smart individual buys into it.
There’s still ppl who think this wasn’t set up?
CRACKED THE CASE!
OPEN AND SHUT CASE JOHNSON!
Classic Pablo.
Seriously. The Justice Department announced he was being charged over a month ago on January 16:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/26-people-charged-alleged-bribery-and-point-shaving-scheme-fix-ncaa-cba-mens
“Unnamed?” Pablo is a straight ho for this.
He was named in a different case but not in the Terry Rozier one
But who cares tho
That’s not the same case at all
Use your critical thinking skills take some notes and re watch it you have too there are to different cases. Btw I’m your real daddy son
People are defending it for one reason or another, but Pablo did the same shit every fucking news media does now. Clickbaited everyone into tuning in and I fuckin hate it. Buzzfeed ruined news media for generations by normalizing clickbait and ragebait.
Nah you’re just a dumbass
Sick response bro. Keep putting morons like Perkins and SAS on a pedestal. Enjoy your yellow journalism
Not named in this case? Did you watch or just making shit up after googling his name?
Wake up Pablo bomb just dropped Ended up being Antonio Blakeney lol
Yes bot we can all read and regurgitate the title too 😂
A massive shell with a peanut size explosion
(Adam Silver slowly lowering the sniper rifle)
It’s funny how we are so far into the “pro sports is rigged by gamblers” storyline that now we are bored when we find out the players rigging the games are not good enough.
Lmao. People want this to include a star so bad.
Does Pablo know what the word “unnamed” means?
Lol I know people who went to high school with him. He used to brag that college recruiters were offering him women.
The stripper who told it on Ricky P and Louisville mentioned him and Rozier as two of the many recruits who slept with prostitutes
Terrence Williams, who also played at Louisville, talked about it on some Fox Sports show years back. Rick Pitino was not a good influence for these guys at all.
A Gambino by another name. What’s with college basketball and all these mafioso looking coaches
It’s true lmao it’s in the pod
I shudder to remember
Looks like Pablo finally did something yall aint quite like.
Yea this is the first miss. Tough look. I cant believe they arent uncovering who the starter for the magic is. I thought thats what this was gonna be about
Nah buying in to “Flagg to Mavs was rigged” was also a bit of a dud
He didn’t say that. He said there were owners who thought that
That was never an episode or anything. That was just what he said other owners had told him they thought
We already knew this?
Just so you all don’t feel “tricked” in the future: if a name is teased then it’s likely someone who isn’t well known. For example, if it were, say, Carmelo Anthony there’s no way Pablo or any other person would tease that out. They know Carmelo’s name will make you click. The tease is to make you click on a lesser known person
I don’t think the purpose was for it to be some bombshell revelation, but more an expose on just how stupid these guys are and the expanding network and involvement of previously named people.. If anything, this implicates Terry Rozier more than previously known more than Blakeney. The way Pablo presents anything makes it seem like some great reveal because that’s his thing, but I don’t think that was the main driver of the video.
Which would have been fine if he didn’t put out a hype video a few hours ago like he was about to burn a big name lmao. Just a strange way to approach it
He releases hype videos like that for a lot of his non Friday vids. You are going to see it one way, and myself another. It is what it is. Godspeed
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Just in this case?
Local man eats burger at McDonald’s
Wait, what?! TELL ME MORE!
Reports suggest he ordered for “no onions”
I love morons realizing Pablo is a content creator, like yeah obviously he needs clicks and attention, he’s running a podcast
Yea but it’s a bit annoying when he goes on these long rants about how he’s a serious journalist with journalistic integrity, and then proceeds to do all the shit that he criticizes in lesser outlets.
Sounds like every podcaster that exists. It’s really not complicated, Pablo’s podcast is just like any other current high production podcast and needs clickbait and other schlocky marketing gimmicks. Only difference is the content is longform journalism.
I get that Blakeney’s part isn’t huge news but I listened to whole thing and it is massively entertaining. Basically it’s like that story you hear at the bar of your buddy who was kinda crazy in high school and went on to do truly wild stuff. The story keeps twisting and turning. From Blakeney getting Katrina Powell’s “services” while being recruited in college (along with Rozier) to him connecting with Rozier and starting to bet on games with inside info to then setting up his friends to be robbed at gunpoint in order to settle a gambling debt. To eventually making $200k on fixing games in CBA - only to have Yao Ming basically call him a degenerate. Yes he is a minor character but his arc is fascinating
Who the fuck is that
He was a g-leaguer for the Bulls, he used to shoot every time he had the ball
Put some respect on his name. He had the highest 3P% from the corner in the NBA that one year
These mfs are so damn greedy man
Zzzz when the trailer is better than the film
Jay glazer-esque reveal
Who?
Antonio Blakeney
I read this in Snoop’s voice
Mike Jones
And all the Antonio Blakeney haters stand up
Pablo is a dweeb
So this guy already learned Chinese?
Man, talk about under-delivering.
is it just me or is Pablo trying a bit too hard in an area that no one really cares about? Not to mention there’s too much money involved that this really won’t make a dent in the way things already run and have run for a long time in professional basketball
Jiang Su Dragons sounds like a Triad set
Co-conspirators so hot right now
We’ve gone international
Not my Jiang Su Dragons, sports betting is illegal in China tho so I’m wondering who’s betting on CBA in the US
He’s taking out the little guys ffs.
What? He broke the story on Kawhi
Damn. Used to watch his mixtapes and workouts when he was in HS. Thought he was going to last in the league. Was just a shoot first scorer with no PG skills though. Worked hard tho. Shame to throw it all away
When he was Bulls coach, Jim Boylen was worried about developing that gambling bum
Damn, guys like this could establish a gambling culture in China.
Lol is this guy just the TMZ of the NBA now?
Breaking stories that were already broken - the pablo torres story
wait, is it an American crime to fix a game in another country? Who knew
This guys head is so far up his ass. Just incredible.
Pablo is washed
Pablo is putting every sports journalist in America to shame.
Pablo: sht… i didn’t get enough clicks…. Hey yall i have even MORE news about aspiration and the clippers! Next episode!
the clipper fan hate on torre is so sad lmao
It’s not just Clipper fans, piston fan here and not a fan of any of his work. Not basketball but he took the Belichick story to a weird point in my opinion with the only payoff being making Bill look bad. Dumb in my opinion
you atleast have a thought-out opinion and i can respect that even if i disagree
the commenter i replied to is very obviously just salty his team got exposed - and i don’t respect that
Salty? Lol like i said.. when he needs them clicks watch him go back to aspiration. You reading too much into it
nah i’m right
Whos hating? This dude gets high number of clicks only whens he talking about aspiration. Wanna bet he makes another video?
Whos hating?
crybabies like you right now
Wanna bet he makes another video?
yeah i’d bet ballmer and kawhi did more shit under the table that broke the rules.
i’d bet you’re gonna cry about it then too