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As the NBA finds itself embroiled in perhaps the biggest betting scandal since the dawn of popularized legal sports bettings, an awkward old tweet from the official Dallas Mavericks Twitter account about betting on the NBA Finals has resurfaced.
Posted during the 2015 NBA Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, the @DallasMavs account tweeted, “Since you all care, I had Golden State in 6 before the series started and have Golden State tonight. So, you know, bet heavy on Cleveland.”
The game that the account was tweeting about was Game 6 of the 2015 NBA Finals, which the Warriors by a score of 105-97, thus clinching the series 4-2 and the first NBA Championship of the Steph Curry era, meaning @SportsStrum hit both his series and Game 6 bet.
According to longtime NBA content creator World Wide Wob, the tweet came from when sports bettor @SportsStrum took over the account for guest posting.
Old tweet about betting on the 2015 NBA Finals from the official Dallas Mavericks Twitter account resurfaces
Since you all care, I had Golden State in 6 before the series and have Golden State tonight. So, you know, bet heavy on Cleveland.
— Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) June 17, 2015
It was a user account takeover in this case, same advice still applies. https://t.co/Bj2wAIGUnQ
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 28, 2025
Earlier this month, Portland Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested in connection to an FBI investigation into illegal gambling, via both illegal and rigged poker games, and trading insider information for sports betting.
The arrests of Billups and Rozier comes after the previous arrests of NBA players Malik Beasley and Jontay Porter in connection to alleged illegal gambling.
“Given the spread of legal betting to the majority of U.S. states, the recurrence of integrity issues across sports, and the emergence of novel betting formats and markets, this is an opportune time to carefully reassess how sports betting should be regulated and how sports leagues can best protect themselves, their players and their fans,” the NBA said in a league-wide memo.
The NBA’s memo to teams on Monday, obtained by ESPN: https://t.co/jYSrpKV9GK pic.twitter.com/NpP5FEcIJL
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 27, 2025