LeBron to Philly, ESPN Insider Betting Controversy, Bueckers/Reese Wager, Romo's OWI Arrest, and MVP-PFL Merger

Um, Mike, were you surprised at LeBron's landing spot?

Yeah, I was pretty surprised at the landing spot, um, I think at, at that moment when I read the notification.

But, um, in the beginning of the off-season, I think especially once Jaylen Brown went there, I figured it was one of the top landing spots.

But, um, I never-- The Miami thing, I, I don't know.

I was very 50/50 on just because I actually loved the fact that they put out a social media job posting after, so it's like, "Hey, maybe someone really did just slip up practicing or trying to mess with the back end." But, uh, yeah, I'm really not too surprised.

I think it, they're gonna be a good team.

Joel Embiid, you know, coming out, of course, talking in the media immediately.

Uh, we'll see how many games he plays, and we'll see how the Jaylen Brown, LeBron James, uh, Tyrese Maxey...

It's a good team, I mean, honestly.

But, uh, still Knicks in five un- until otherwise.

Um, so I guess on the legal side, we'll, uh, look, I was surprised too.

In this day and age and this information disclosure, the last live line I saw on the Sixers before the ne- the bet was announced was, I think, nine to one.

So in this day and age, some type of bet that's solely dependent, like it clearly there's inside information on where he's going.

But usually if there's, and I say inside information, LeBron is the inside information.

Like it's not, it's not a performance-based bet where like, "Is this team gonna win or lose? Will the over-under hit," right? It, it's something that just some one person can snap their fingers and control.

I was impressed that the line kind of stayed and held there in, in this kind of, on the cashier of like information-based bets.

Usually a line starts, like I, I think we talked about in the last podcast, like why is the line moving to, you know, towards in, in that case we were talking about, um, Cleveland or Golden State.

Like what was moving there other than inside information? And it turns out, I guess, I guess if you, if it's wrong, it's not inside information.

It's outside information masquerading itself as inside.

So i- it was intrigued about that.

The other part that was interesting, um, there were odds on who would make the announcement, be it LeBron and Klutch.

I think, um, Rich Paul is, is, is Klutch Agency, for lack of better term.

Those guys were like minus 200 and even money, and then Shams Charania was like plus 400.

So, um, y- I guess, I don't know h-how many people are following this, but, you know, they were, the "NBA 2K" series was announcing the cover athlete.

They did this big countdown, like 10, nine, like, uh, like every day they were s- they were doing this big elaborate marketing countdown, and then like, uh, right before the last day, like Shams Charania just spoiled it, and he's like, "By the way, it's Giannis Antetokounmpo." So, you know, he, he's Mr.