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Robbie Bettelon @bobbybuckets313.bsky.social · 14h

Took a look at a fun set JB Bickerstaff has been using when Stew and Duren are on the floor together in today's Under The Hood.

There seemed to be more of an emphasis on spacing last night after the brutal Cavs game. @detroitbadboys.bsky.social
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Under the Hood: Game 5 vs Magic - There was spacing!

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Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

I think that is one less than the Magic have on technical free throw attempts

Order of the Blazing Horse @oobh.bsky.social · 1d

Cade has 5 FTA

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Unclear if he complained or if he got a T for trying to sell the call. I think it's the latter, which is wild considering the calls Franz is selling tonight

Omari Sankofa II @omarisankofa.bsky.social · 1d

Quick tech on Duncan Robinson. That's two on the Pistons tonight

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Refs really keeping the Magic in this game

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if the refs gave Cade a whistle at all

Order of the Blazing Horse @oobh.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if refs gave Cade a whistle like Paolo

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

You're regularly scheduled stoppage to treat a Jalen Duren wound

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Caris LeVert has been awful on defense tonight. Very late, seemingly very unaware

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry, only 9. But there is still time!

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

It's the first quarter so of course the Pistons are down double digits

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

It's the first quarter so of course the Pistons are down double digits

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps five-quadrant considering said hog

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 3d

Pistons won't often be down 30, but the reasons they are down 30 are going to be issues for them all year.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 3d

Disaster of an offensive showing, but not entirely surprised it's rearing it's head against the cavs.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 3d

It'd be nice if the Pistons ever thought about creating an easy look for Cade

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 3d

Peacockin'

TV screen showing Vince Carter and Carmelo Anthony talking Pistons-Cavs on Peacock

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 3d

Future Pelican

Michael Scotto @mikeascotto.bsky.social · 3d

The Indiana Pacers are waiving center James Wiseman, league sources told @hoopshypeofficial.bsky.social. The former No. 2 pick of the 2020 NBA Draft has averaged 9.1 points and 5.6 rebounds in 18.9 minutes per game over five seasons with the Golden State Warriors, Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 4d

Celtics-Pistons. You have nets on the brain

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 4d

The Pistons look determined to work REALLY hard for their shots instead of simply trying to create good, open perimeter shots. I hate it

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 7d

Interestingly, I read this is less an indictment of Billups and more of an example of Billups being too open venting his frustrations with his job.

Not clear to me this was shared for the purpose of other folks placing bets as opposed to "my job sucks, I am being told I gotta sit my players."

Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 7d

Reading through the Terry Rozier indictment — the inside-information-for-sports-betting one, not the illegal-Mafia-poker-games one, which is the one that doesn't explicitly name Chauncey Billups — and got wide-eyed at the section on Co-Conspirator 8: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

20. Co-Conspirator 8, an individual whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, was a resident Oregon. Co-Conspirator 8 was an NBA player from approximately 1997 through 2014, and an NBA coach since at least 2021.

B. The March 24, 2023 Portland Trail Blazers Game

44. On or about March 24, 2023, the Portland Trail Blazers played the Chicago Bulls (the "March 24 Game"). Prior to the game, the Trail Blazers' record was 32-40 and the team was out of playoff contention with only 10 games remaining in the season. Prior to the March 24 Game, Co-Conspirator 8 told the defendant ERIC EARNEST that the Trail Blazers were going to be tanking (i.e., intentionally losing) to increase their odds of getting a better draft pick in the upcoming NBA draft. Co-Conspirator 8 told EARNEST, before the news was publicly announced, that several of the Trail Blazers’ best players, including Player 1, an individual whose identity is known to the Grand Jury, would not be playing in the March 24 Game. The information that the Trail Blazers would be tanking and not playing Player 1 was not available to the public, including the Betting Companies.

45. Prior to the March 24 Game, the defendant ERIC EARNEST provided this non-public inside information to the defendent MARVES FAIRLEY so that FAIRLEY could place fraudulent wagers on the game and share the profits with EARNEST. In exchange, FAIRLEY ultimately promised to pay EARNEST at least $5,000 if the bets against the Trail

Blazers were successful. In addition, FAIRLEY texted EARNEST a screenshot of a purported $20,000 wire transfer from FAIRLEY's bank account to EARNEST, accompanied by the message "Address for wire."

46. After the defendant MARVES FAIRLEY learned from the defendant ERIC EARNEST that the Trail Blazers planned not to play their best players in the March 24 Game, FAIRLEY conveyed that non-public information to Co-Conspirator 1. FAIRLEY and Co-Conspirator 1 agreed to split the profits on successful wagers they could place against the Trail Blazers.

47. Before these key Trail Blazers players were publicly ruled out of the March 24 Game, the defendants MARVES FAIRLEY and SHANE HENNEN, themselves and together with their co-conspirators including Co-Conspirator 1, placed and caused the placement of multiple bets that the Trail Blazers would lose the March 24 Game totaling more than approximately $100,000. For example, between approximately 12:00 p.m. EST and 7:00 p.m. EST on March 24, 2023, which was before the key Trail Blazers players were publicly ruled out, Timothy McCormack and Long Phi Pham, acting together and with Pham acting at HENNEN's direction, placed bets against the Trail Blazers of approximately $20,000 through Betting Company 1's mobile application and approximately $12,000 through Betting Company 2's mobile application.

48. The NBA injury reports publicly released at approximately 1:30 p.m. EST and 2:30 p.m. EST on March 24, 2023 reported that Player 1 was, respectively, "probable" and then "questionable" to play in the March 24 Game. At approximately 9:30 p.m. EST on March 24, 2023—approximately half an hour before the start of the March 24 Game—the NBA released an injury report listing Player 1 and others as "out" for the game. The "out" group

included the Trail Blazers' four highest per-game scorers during the 2022-2023 season. The betting lines relating to the March 24 Game changed upon the public release of the Trail Blazers' key players' injury statuses.

49. The fraudulent wagers against the Trail Blazers placed and caused by the defendants MARVES FAIRLEY and SHANE HENNEN, together with co-conspirators acting at their discretion were successful, as the Bulls beat the Trail Blazers 124-96.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 7d

Important to note that the Billups investigation and the Rozier/ sports betting investigations are separate, per ABC News. Billups allegedly tied to illegal poker games run by the Mafia, not sports betting. Again, all alleged.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 8d

Well this game stinks

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 8d

I can forgive the Pistons defense as the Bulls were on a bit of a heater, but the offensive game plan was disgusting. Hopefully these players got something out of their system and they can go back to playing smart basketball.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 8d

Pistons are trying to muscle their way out of a big deficit. They need to settle down and just run some offense.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 8d

The Pistons season is underway

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 8d

I cut cable and went the fan duel app. It's been reliable through baseball and basketball preseason. That and the ESPN app (bundled) still lets me pay less than a cable package that provides both.

Sean Corp @seancorp.bsky.social · 11d

Not to excuse, but curious how much this is attributable to the pre-planned Sunday edition vs. the weekday daily.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11d

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.