Former 11-year NBA player Damon Jones was arrested Thursday amid charges that he allegedly disclosed privileged injury information about a "prominent" basketball player to facilitate illegal sports betting, authorities announced.
LeBron James was the prominent player, a source close to James told ESPN.
James was not accused of wrongdoing in the indictment.
Jones was an unofficial, unpaid part of former Los Angeles Lakers coach Darvin Ham's staff and is no longer with the team under current Lakers coach JJ Redick. Ham invited Jones to be a part of team activities after James spent the summer of 2022 with Jones present for many of his offseason workouts.
James was unaware that Jones, his former teammate and assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers, was involved in gambling activity when Jones spent time around James and the Lakers during the 2022-23 season, the source said.
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Ham always there to screw us
Somehow I knew Darvin Ham would connect into this.
Arrest Ham
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Dude was an unofficial, unpaid nobody. He had to get paid somehow 😂
put hams ass in prison
More fuel to hate ham.
Bron’s always copped a lot of hate. But anyone feel like it’s really ramped up in the r last couple of months??? Or maybe I clicked on one too many posts and now that’s all I’m seeing.
Well well well
We knew Pockets was a terrorist.
Maybe that’s why LeBron was sitting on the Lakers bench the other day like he had lost his favorite pet lizard
🕯️ Ham is also an accomplice ritual 🕯️
Should have kept JR Smith around to throw soup at Jones when he started getting too close to LeBron.
Unofficial and unpaid, the worst kind of job
Damn. I’m convinced now. Adam should do the right thing and force the Celtics to forfeit their championships
To be fair, it legit sounds like Bron and the lakers did nothing wrong.. Damon took some info and sent it to someone prior to it being public. It’s not like someone gave him that information for that purpose. Bron is notoriously frugal, doubt he’s risking it all to get Damon jones a couple thousand.
Of course Darvin’s name is in it somehow
It’s time for Adam Silver to grow some balls and clamp down on sports gambling and third party endorsements for players that circumvent the salary cap. Expedite these investigations and take swift, decisive action because the NBA looks crazy right now.
…so yet again, it was Hamas.
Contest without fouling
Ham the gift that keeps on giving.
I’m so sick of Ham
Fuck Darvin Scam bro