Basketball is the highest money generating sports with NBA as the top league in the world.Players like Michael Jordan and Bill Russell have been the greatest player this game has ever seen. However Basketball has not been free of fixing allegations pastly and we discuss top 5 match fixing scandal in Basketball :
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1: New York match fixing scandal
- In 1951, in the CCNY point shaving scandal, District Attorney Frank Hogan indicted college basketball players for point shaving from four New York schools, including CCNY, Manhattan College, New York University and Long Island University.
2: Boston College basketball team match fixing scandal
- In 1978, mobsters connected with the New York Lucchese crime family, among them Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke, organized a point shaving scheme with key members of the Boston College basketball team.
3: Tulane University match fixing scandal
- In 1985, Tulane University (New Orleans, Louisiana) players were involved in a point shaving scheme that led to the disbandment of the program for four years.
4: Arizona State University basketball team match fixing scandal
- In 1994, a comprehensive point shaving scheme organized by campus bookmaker Benny Silman and involving players from the Arizona State University men’s basketball team was uncovered with the assistance of Las Vegas bookmakers, who grew suspicious over repeated large wagers being made against Arizona State.
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5: University of San Diego & University of California basketball team match fixing scandal
- In April 2011, a U.S. federal grand jury in San Diego indicted a group of 10 individuals on charges of running a point shaving scheme affecting an as yet-undetermined number of college basketball games. Three of the accused have ties to the University of San Diego’s men’s basketball team—one was the team’s all-time leader in points and assists; another was a former player; and the third was a former assistant. Games at the University of California, Riverside, where the second indicted player also played, were also mentioned as potentially being fixed.
6:) NBA match fixing scandal
On 22 January 2016, ESPN Reporter Brian Windhorst, broke the news on Bomani Jones’s show that the NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers players threw a game against Portland Trail Blazers in an attempt to get head coach David Blatt fired.
