(NewsNation) — Stephen A. Smith says the NBA is at the mercy of Kash Patel and President Trump's administration regarding the gambling arrests made last week by the FBI.

Patel, the FBI director, called out Smith after he said that the arrests may have been a part of President Trump's revenge for all the protests and backlash he's facing around the country.

"Kash Patel can act like I'm off my rocker, and all of this other stuff," Smith said in a Monday appearance on "CUOMO." "He can talk that nonsense all he wants to. I ain't got time to be getting into it with no FBI director."

Last week, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were among more than 30 people arrested in connection with a federal probe into sports gambling and rigged poker gam

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