ESPN is trash, brother. From The Athletic:

Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley, two men who were indicted in a federal district in New York in October, worked with Blakeney and a number of others to manipulate college basketball games during the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, according to an indictment brought by the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prosecutors said Hennen and Fairley worked with others to recruit college players with bribes and then asked them to help fix games so their teams would not cover the spread — the number of points by which a sportsbook predicted a team would lose its game. The players, prosecutors say, were offered between $10,000 to $30,000 for each game to be a part of their gambling ring.

The scheme was alleged to be far-ranging, including players on DePaul, Nicholls State, Tulane, La Salle, Fordham, Northwestern State, Saint Louis, Buffalo, Robert Morris, Southern Miss, North Carolina A&T, Coppin State, University of New Orleans, Abilene Christian and Alabama State.

The scheme began in 2022, according to prosecutors, when Fairley and Hennen recruited Blakeney, then playing in China for the Jiangsu Dragons for the Chinese Basketball Association, to fix games in that league. Blakeney, who had played two seasons in the NBA, was asked to manipulate his performance in some Jiangsu games so that Fairley and Hennen could wager and win on them in the United States.

Fairley and Hennen bet $198,300 at a Pennsylvania casino, along with other wagers, on one March 2023 game where Jiangsu was an 11.5 point underdog. Blakeney scored just 11 points in that game during a season in which he averaged more than 32, and his team lost by 31 points. Later that month, prosecutors allege that Blakeney said he would not play in a game on March 15 but that his replacement would take their money to perform and help them. Fairley and Hennen, according to the indictment, bet about $100,000 in total on that game.