Jazzinho
Well-Known Member
Usually that's not how corrupt gamblers make money, not with the outcome of the game itself. With the exponential growth of online gambling in the past years the type of thing you can gamble on is ridiculous.A huge factor when it comes to gambling in the NBA is that single games matter so little in the regular season. When every game has higher potential of being important, throwing a game is a much higher risk.
You can bet which team or player will foul first, or foul out, which team will get the first FT, if a player will get more or less fouls or any stats more than his average. Sum that with a ref making just a couple of thousand a game and therefore easily corruptible and you have recipe for manipulation.
Recently a huge scheme has been found out in major soccer league in Brazil. Players from small teams were getting paid by gamblers to get yellow cards, or concede corner kicks in exchange for 10x their monthly salary. And the only reason they found out was because one of the players failed to get a yellow card after getting the money since he never checked in, gamblers lost their money and were sending death threats to the player and his family so he ended up going to the cops.