Tag: New York Knicks gambling
New York Knicks players fixed games for gambling drug dealers
September 18, 2013
Daily Mail – A new book makes shocking new claims that ‘coked-up’ members of the New York Knicks’ 1981-1982 team fixed games for their drug dealer, who bet thousands of dollars on the team in the midst of their terrible season. Brian Tuohy’s new book, Larceny Games: Sports Gambling, Game Fixing and the FBI, cites FBI sources who said they investigated whether three members of the team – who were said to be ‘heavy users of cocaine’ – were involved in a point-shaving scheme to benefit their supplier, who is identified only as ‘one of the largest dealers on the…