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Now that Jose Canseco has told about his version of the rampant use of steroids in his new book, what can we expect next?
Well, here is a possibility:
I think an ex basketball player either on the collegiate or pro level is going to try to cash in on a book about his and other's involvement is point shaving.
This could be done in a number of ways:
1) The athlete could have a real story to tell and could have kept a log of games and conversations with teammates both before the game was played and perhaps during the game when either the pointspread or total was involved;he could even indict some officials.
2) He could actually be lying through his teeth and yet come up with a very plausible case that he and others were involved with point shaving.
How you ask?
Well, lets say for example that the basketball player programmed his computer to come up with all games in his a career which say the outcome of either the game or total in which a game he was involved in came within 3 to 5 points of the pointspread.
Now he gets game films of all of those games, studies them and looks for suspiciously missed fouls, turnovers, fouls which should have been called or were not and vice versa;these could be plays in which either he, a teammate or in the case of the fouls themselves, the referees were involved.
He could then allude to these in the book and say how all of the above were planned/done on purpose by him or his teammates or referees and even make up some conversations which took place during the timeouts to support his case.
I think that if the player in either instance above presented his case in a very logical and believeable manner, the book would be a blockbuster, and that many people other than gamblers would be interested in reading it.
Sure, if it was all fabricated, teammates, officials and others would curse him, etc., but they could not prove he was NOT telling the truth;it would be their word against his;that in itself would make it a blockbuster. Isn't that what is going to happen with Canseco's book?
I personally believe that whether a book is written or not, I think that if somehow someone knew about every point shaving attempt in basketball history, he could write a monstrous book with many pages.
In this day and age when everyone is out to make money, I think it is likely that someone will attempt this.
ps As always, I would love to hear what you guys think about this.
Well, here is a possibility:
I think an ex basketball player either on the collegiate or pro level is going to try to cash in on a book about his and other's involvement is point shaving.
This could be done in a number of ways:
1) The athlete could have a real story to tell and could have kept a log of games and conversations with teammates both before the game was played and perhaps during the game when either the pointspread or total was involved;he could even indict some officials.
2) He could actually be lying through his teeth and yet come up with a very plausible case that he and others were involved with point shaving.
How you ask?
Well, lets say for example that the basketball player programmed his computer to come up with all games in his a career which say the outcome of either the game or total in which a game he was involved in came within 3 to 5 points of the pointspread.
Now he gets game films of all of those games, studies them and looks for suspiciously missed fouls, turnovers, fouls which should have been called or were not and vice versa;these could be plays in which either he, a teammate or in the case of the fouls themselves, the referees were involved.
He could then allude to these in the book and say how all of the above were planned/done on purpose by him or his teammates or referees and even make up some conversations which took place during the timeouts to support his case.
I think that if the player in either instance above presented his case in a very logical and believeable manner, the book would be a blockbuster, and that many people other than gamblers would be interested in reading it.
Sure, if it was all fabricated, teammates, officials and others would curse him, etc., but they could not prove he was NOT telling the truth;it would be their word against his;that in itself would make it a blockbuster. Isn't that what is going to happen with Canseco's book?
I personally believe that whether a book is written or not, I think that if somehow someone knew about every point shaving attempt in basketball history, he could write a monstrous book with many pages.
In this day and age when everyone is out to make money, I think it is likely that someone will attempt this.
ps As always, I would love to hear what you guys think about this.
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