ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith falsely claimed Thursday that an FBI investigation into illegal gambling by several members of the NBA that started in 2022 under the Biden administration is somehow Donald Trump’s revenge against the league.

Smith disgorged his claims on ESPN’s First Take on Thursday, where he claimed that Trump “is coming” to arrest and imprison anyone who disagrees with him — which was the practice during the Biden years.

On Thursday, Trump’s FBI chief, Kash Patel, announced that Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among 31 people arrested in a probe of a gambling ring that is reportedly connected to organized crime.

Smith, though, was all spun up over his imagined idea that Trump was somehow enacting revenge on the NBA fo

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