Last week, the NBA was rocked by the indictments of three current and former players, including the current coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, in connection with sports betting and rigged poker games. I with talked my colleague Bryan Walsh, who oversees Vox’s Future Perfect, about the crisis the indictments create for the league — and larger crisis of widespread sports gambling in the US. Our conversation for Vox’s daily newsletter, Today, Explained, is below, and you can sign up for the newsletter here for more conversations like this.

What happened in the NBA last week? What were these indictments about?

So on Thursday morning, the FBI, the New York Police Department, and New York state officials announced indictments around a really massive illegal sports betting and illegal poker ring that included several current and former NBA players, among them current guard for the Miami Heat Terry Rozier, as well as the current coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and Hall of........

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