10.23: Headlines - Hour 4

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(01:06):
but I'm a little distracted by this breaking news that
came out within the last thirty minutes that we did
just discuss at the end of the seven o'clock hour.
Former Louisville basketball player Terry Rozier, who is currently with
the Miami Heat. He was arrested early this morning as
part of an FBI sports betting gambling probe. That news
was broke by Sham's training of ESPN, and he has

(01:28):
been under investigation for many, many months now. There was
some report that then later was quickly shot down that
he had been cleared. And I remember leading up to
the because a lot of time went by before he
was or I guess you know, think about when it started.
I mean again, months of investigation and the longer we
went without him getting arrested or indicted, I felt, Okay,

(01:51):
they see some inconsistencies. They do see that those that
were involved in the previous arrests, that John say Porter,
the former NBA player who has now, I mean, he's
to me, he's one of the early, real, big examples
of just how much you can ruin your life by
gambling while being a pro athlete. But nonetheless, those same

(02:14):
folks were making wagers on Terry's props that were very suspicious.
But again many min's went, many months went by and
no arrest of no indictment. So I just assume that
that's good. But I guess they needed to do more work,
and now they have come. You know, maybe maybe the
investigation is still ongoing to an extent, but clearly enough
to bring him up on charges and arrest him. So

(02:37):
it's it's just I've completely torn because it is really
sad that this is this, this is gonna ruin his life.
I mean if in fact, I mean again, who knows
as far as what actual charges are. Obviously trial, plea deal,
all that kind of stuff, but this will be regardless
of the outcome, this, this is this is going to

(02:58):
ruin his career, his life. If I guess that that'll
be that, that'll that that's to be determined, right, maybe
he becomes somebody that that later in life. He's an
example of of hey, I'm gonna go talk to these
athletes and tell him don't make the mistake I did.
So who knows long long term, but Terry Rozier had
such a really really good story about somebody that dealt

(03:20):
with real life adversity as a kid that most kids
don't experience, and he he made it. He was a
high level NBA player. And I don't know Terry well
by any means, but I did you know that could
be wrong, but I feel like if I saw him,
he and I he would remember me, just for my

(03:40):
when I was really really into covering U of L
sports and really just everywhere, it was around the time
he played here, and I just loved his story. He
had a his dream was to play for Louisville, although
he's from Youngstown, Ohio. This is this may be too
much into the weeds here as far as just UFO basketball,
But Sebastian alfare former recruit who was going to be

(04:03):
the next big recruit for Rick Patino early on in
its time at Louisville. He ended up eventually going pro
and didn't go to Louisville. But there was a documentary
made about Sebastian Telfair called I think something through the Fire.
I think that might have been the title, and it
just profiled Sebastian Telfair. He'd committed to Louisville. They showed
a lot of his interactions with Rick Patino, I believe,
and Terry saw that as a young kid and said,

(04:25):
that's his dream. He wants to play for Rick Patino
at Louisville. He wasn't a big time recruit. He was
like a two three star, and sure enough Louisville recruited
him and he committed. But then he didn't have the grades.
He had to go to a He had to go
to a prep school I think it was hard Grave
Military Academy, and did a year of postgrad there and
then became actually a bigger name in the recruiting world.
But despite his recruiting blowing up, he ended up sticking

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with Louisville, played there for two years, was good as
a freshman on a really good team in twenty fourteen,
and then was a superstar as a sophomore. In fact,
I believe he holds the record for most points ever
scored in season at Louisville by a sophomore. And then
he goes to the NBA drafted by the Celtics, becomes
a fan favorite because they signed Kyrie Irving, who always

(05:10):
hurt kind of a headache. Terry comes in and they're
a better team when he's on the floor. He used
that to get a huge contract to go to Charlotte
and then since then he's bounced around and is now
with the Heat. So it's a guy who his dad
was in and out of prison many times throughout his childhood.
His mom and his grandmother collectively raised him just you know,
had a rough life and worked his tail off, really talented,

(05:32):
became a high level pro. I mean, it's a great story.
And now part of his story is that as a pro,
he's been accused and now arrested for being involved in
some way with sports betting while playing. I mean, like
who knows as far as if he was betting on him,
if he was he was betting himself, or what it was.

(05:53):
But just just sad. But again the balance here is that,
like it's really sad, but it's also self an flicked
it and so stupid. I mean, I just I just
can't fathom how somebody could make this kind of a
decision and not realize the consequence and also I guess

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not realize that you're not going to get away with it.
Just sad, sad. All right, we'll get to the trafficking
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this is this is a big, some big outlet here
right this platform of eight forty whas is is monumental
as far as it's reached. I'm going to use that
and use it wisely to remind people that what you
see in a headline is oftentimes misleading and most times
not by the person who wrote the article in column,

(07:03):
especially at the traditional outlets like newspapers. So I bring
all this up because there is there's a story at
the Courier Journal which I believe their headline is misleading,
and yet I see people sharing the link and expressing
outrage whenever I feel confident that less than ten percent

(07:24):
actually read it. Because one, it's behind a paywall that
you have to have a subscription at the CJ to
read and where I saw this is on Facebook. If
you click on the Facebook, if you click on the
link while you're on Facebook, even if you have a subscription,
it's not going to know that because you're accessing it
through the Facebook app and not through whatever you like
the app for the CJ or I guess if you're

(07:46):
on your computer, it's a little bit different, nontheless, I
know a lot of people who consume the CJ don't
have a subscription. I'm sure some do. I do. But
the headline is LMPD officer who cited homeless woman in
labor gets award. That makes you think that they awarded
him for that, which is not at all the story.
And again I'll give you the breakdown here because again

(08:08):
I think it's important. I've seen enough people be completely
misled about misled about this entire entire situation. So again,
just just be aware that's not what happened. But you
could still have outrage and be upset about it just
for for other reasons. But here's here's the gist of
what we know. There is a l MPD, a lieutenant

(08:28):
named Caleb Stewart, who did receive the Louisville Tourism Partner
of the Year award last fall, and he was nominated
by Deputy Mayor Nicole George, who praised his efforts to
reduce homeless encampments and make Louisville streets safer for visitors.
So here's the here's the timeline. Right before, I'm sorry,

(08:48):
right after he was nominated, he was he issued an
unlawful camping citation to a pregnant woman in active labor
under a downtown overpass that of course made news naw
just because of the nature of what that story is.
And I'm not at all defending that. I think he
thought the woman was lying about being in labor. In fact,
the body can video you could hear him saying that,

(09:11):
and he was wrong. And that's not a good look
by any means. That's worthy of getting attention, and that's
again a tough look overall. He also was suspended for
twenty days prior to all of this for failing to
report a subordinates use of a choking technique considered deadly
force on a mentally ill man. So despite these things,

(09:31):
the Lois of Tourism still elevated his nomination, saying his
work helped make visitors feel safe. Deputy Mayor Nicole Mayor
George defended him before the Police Merit Board, calling his
work with homelessness difficult and disciplined. So we have people
now thinking that the louis of Tourism Award saw him
in the you know, saw the coverage of this story

(09:52):
about him citing a woman who was in fact in
labor and pregnant, and said, yeah, that's great police work.
Let's give him an award that's not at all what
it was. In fact, he was nominated before any of
that happened. Those are very important details when it comes
to this story. So again, I think the homeless situation
is it's tough because you've got I mean, there are

(10:18):
cities that have good intentions that delivered food, tents, money
just to try to help. But with that you just
you actually make street life a lot easier to maintain
rather than harder to leave. And it's just, again, I
think just the human element of wanting to help people
in need and seeing somebody that clearly is living that life.

(10:38):
It's I mean, and look I see it every morning
every day when we're here in downtown Louisville. But like
the if you don't enforce it, and you just kind
of let them set up wherever, and instead of like
monitoring where they are and how long they're there, you
just keep giving them things they need. Maybe that's the
good human thing to do, helping somebody in need, but

(10:58):
that is literally how you how it turns into having
your entire city, at least a big portion of your
city being sort of overtaken by these homeless camps. And
that's not good for anybody, right, It's not good for
your city as a whole, but it's also not good
for them. That's not rehabilitation. That's almost helping them continue

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to live a life that nobody would claim is one
that is I mean, I guess there could be worse
things than being homeless, but still, like you know, that's
not rehab, that's not real. That's not helping long term.
That's I think, making it easier for them to not
get out of the situation that they're in. But that's
just the way I see it, all right, quick break, traffic,
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(12:01):
segment for us here on a Thursday morning, Tony and
Dwight coming your way here momentarily, been a busy morning
and some breaking news from the seven o'clock hour that
we've touched on here, and there is an unfortunate piece
of news, and that is that former Louisville guard Terry
Rozier has been arrested by the FBI this morning for
his involvement and the involvement we don't know exactly what

(12:23):
the details are there, but it's a sports betting gambling probe,
the same I guess, the same group that was involved
in the initial arrest of many months ago that led
to the uncovering of Johntay Porter becoming I think the
first NBA players in sports betting has become very legal
really everywhere to be involved and be betting on himself

(12:45):
and and you know, just it's uh, it's I'm spinning
o wheels here because fellas, I don't know if you
can do a stupider things as as a pro athlete
then not realizing that you'll ruin your life, you won't
get away with it, and you have a lot to lose.
You've already made it as a pro athlete, a successful
one that most people never would be able to do.

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And to do something so silly like this, it just
it's it's I can't, I'm speechless.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
We all know, FBI indict you, they got you. They
don't indict you unless they got you. So he's going
to do federal time, which will mean you got to
do something like eighty five percent of federal time. And
here's what I probably think. He was probably pretty deep
into it because I'm going to say the FBI probably
knows of dozens of guys in the NBA that are
doing it right, Yeah, but they're not going to go

(13:33):
after radar for right. They're on the radar. Right, So
they were like, Okay, who's the worst here? Like, who's
doing it the worst? I'm all this is my opinion.
I cannot tell speak for FBI or the NBA or whatever.
But I think I would think the FBI was like, Okay,
we got we gotta wrap this one up.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, and it's so sad.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
So the it is really sad.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
The tomline here. It's been months since he was mentioned
as and it was it was. I don't know how
you officially confirm it. They don't I give you public
details as far as their investigations, but it was an
known thing that he was under investigation. He still played
throughout the end of last season despite being under investigation.
Many months went by, there was a report that was
quickly shot down that he was cleared, and then many

(14:14):
months went by again, and I just assumed the more time,
the better likelihood. It is that maybe they don't have
enough to get him, or maybe they were wrong in
some way, but they ended up getting him. And what
looks bad is there are games specifically that people reference
where you look at the total number of rebounds or
assists that he was supposed to have and just plays
that were not mistakes you typically make, and times where

(14:36):
he was close to hitting the over so he started
grabbing his hamstring or something like that, And that doesn't
prove anything, but it certainly is added evidence, and when
where they've already got people talking, they've already arrested sold people.
Those people were wagering a lot of money on Terry specifically,
which is a terrible look for him.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
All Right, I'm going to go there. Okay, is this
this is old guy yelling it's the sky, but I'm
going to go there. The game for this generation of
players really don't mean that much to them. They come
from the AAU circuit, which is they play eight nine
games in an AAU circuit a game or a day,
like they pay these twenty minute games. They've been conditioned

(15:14):
to realize that the games don't mean anything. Right, they
play more games than they drill. Right, So they come
from that situation to where they're not the old school
guys that were like, you know, I'm for forty minutes.
I'm going to be a beast in a monster.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Let's take it even further. It's not the old school
built way to where I got to keep winning or
I won't play anymore because I'm on the floor. Yes,
so it's not that anymore. You got eight games scheduled
in a week in regardless of what happens.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
So is this just the transformation into the era of
man these games don't matter and I really don't care.
So what if I throw one game? Who cares? I mean,
they don't want to suit up for the game. You
see Barklay and all these guys. They cannot get over that.
Guys sit the rest, they can't get over it.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
They like, what do you mean because they played hurts year.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
So nob buddy says enough is that the NBA expects
people to take their products seriously whenever you are telling us,
and it's been this way for years that it's not
a competitive product because it's just a known thing that
for no rom or reason, guys just don't play because
they need to rest, not because they're sick, not because
they're hurt. It's just that's what we do now load management.

(16:20):
If the games themselves, night in and night out every
night are not the main goals, not don't care, then like,
how can you expect?

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Like I think that's not everybody, not everybody. But again,
I'll go to the interview I had with the ukuf
L player where I asked the U the U of
L player, I was like, so and so from UK
scored twenty eight points on you last year. Are you ready?
And there was the same matchup coming up to the game.
I said, are you ready to Does that get in
your crawl for the entire season to where I can't
wait for this matchup again? And he goes, he got
what on me last year? Now you go ask Jerry

(16:49):
Eves uh or you go ask those generation guys, they're
like the.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Entire off season last year, and then you'd start to
add layers to it was actually worse than it was
just just to build, just to build that fuel.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Let me ask this question real quick. You know the NBA,
the major sports leagues, they all have their investigators on
staff to check out if a player they would have to.
So the NBA had to have known what was going on.
Should they have put Porter on the beach last year
until this investigation was done or were they why?

Speaker 1 (17:21):
Or were they?

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Lieutenant Schultz, you know, I see nothing right right?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
I know nothing.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
The team and the NBA had to have known something
was going on. To me, it seems like the smart
thing would have been to put him on the beach
last year when this first came up.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Well they did initially, and then he was able to
resume because they didn't have anything to actually like he
was just we're looking at him, that's all they know.
So yeah, just he's ruined his life, there's no doubt
about it.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
I thought you would talk about the high school, Nil,
I think that was past. Oh wow, what Kentucky High
School Athletics Association is coming to high school?

Speaker 1 (17:54):
What? What is this life? What is what is going
on the rules in front to I know that you
guys will get life in order. Tony and Dwight coming
coming your way next right here on news Radio weight
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