One minute, Victor Wembanyama’s spectacular 40-point, 15-rebound game against the Mavericks on the second night of the NBA season is the sport’s biggest story.
The next minute, it’s barely an afterthought.
The NBA woke up Thursday to any league’s worst nightmare, with multiple prominent names — including longtime player Terry Rozier, currently on the Miami Heat, and Portland Trail Blazers coach and Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups — at the center of a probe by the FBI.
Though there have been the early-morning arrests of Rozier and Billups are unprecedented.