As stories of sports betting scandals have been rocking the NBA, MLB, and NCAA, one former college basketball player is sharing his experience and warning players who might be tempted to get involved that the promise of a few dollars could cost them their career. And he’s revealing the secret reason why he did it.
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In an interview with GMA, former University of New Orleans shooting guard Cedquavious Hunter admitted that he was part of a point-shaving scheme involving his team. Hunter says he was approached by a Las Vegas better who offered him and some of his teammates $5,000 to miss some of their shots on purpose in order to affect the point spread of some of their games. The guys agreed, and Hunter says they were mostly successful in seven games between December 2024 and January 2025.
“Ninety-five percent [of the time], we were going to get the job done,” he confessed.
During an investigation after receiving a tip, the NCAA found text messages between Hunter and a teammate in which they talked about the deal. When questioned, Hunter said his first instinct was to lie to investigators, hoping that the whole thing would just go away.
“I told them I don’t know anything, but the whole time, basically, I knew everything,” he said.“I was trying to lie because I thought I would get my way out of it.”
In the end, Hunter’s actions cost him his career. The NCAA ruled Hunter and two of his teammates, Dyquavian Short and Jamond Vincent, permanently ineligible for play. When asked why he agreed to participate in an illegal activity that had such serious consequences, a visibly emotional Hunter said he did it to make money he needed to take care of his newborn son.
“I was money hungry. That’s all it was. Money hungry. Fast cash,” he said. “I just had a child. The school wasn’t paying me money, so I was just trying to get money to actually take care of my child.”
Hunter told GMA that he hopes to have the chance to play basketball somewhere else one day. But in the meantime, he says he will make sure his son knows that what he did was wrong, and to not “follow my steps and don’t do the same thing I did.”
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