🚨 BREAKING: The Feds have been busy again 🚨
Turns out this wasn’t just a night out at the Copacabana — this was where it all started. 👀🍸
Back in 1991, a young Adam “The Commissioner” Silver was seen dining with Paulie, Tommy, Henry, and Jimmy Conway. Witnesses say Silver ordered the veal (“it’s the best in the city”) and spent the rest of the night pitching his plan for “league expansion… into the five boroughs.” 🕴️🏀
By dessert, Tommy was explaining “load management” to Henry — which, apparently, meant taking a week off after burying someone in Queens. Jimmy offered to “handle officiating,” Paulie offered to “regulate the spread,” and Silver promised everyone season tickets — no refs, no fouls, all cash. 💸
Fast-forward three decades and the FBI’s knocking again — same poker tables, same betting schemes, just fancier suits. Funny how every time the league says “we’re monitoring the situation,” it sounds more and more like a wiretap transcript. 😏
Silver’s somewhere sipping Chianti, mumbling, “Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to run a league.” 🍷