Monday, June 2, 2008

$100 Million Dollar Swing

I'm sure you all heard about the Lakers winning Game 5 in the Western Conference Finals, thus, securing themselves a berth in the NBA Finals. The interesting part of the story? The Lakers were 7.5 point favorites and were up by 5 points with the last possession. If you were watching the game, you saw Sasha Vujacic dribble up court and rather than just run out the clock he shot a three as time expired, making the shot. Although it was a jerk thing for him to do, everyone who picked San Antonio to cover the spread on that game lost their bets when he jacked that one up there. Gamblers estimate that with the shot it swung $100,000,000 the other way. 2/3s of all bets were for San Antonio, and all those people lost their money because of him.

1 comment:

Dave said...

bro... that was freaking awesome. you know what else is awesome? leaving this comment from my new phone.