They did not pay him the 8.25M owed to him today, instead they put that into an escrow account.
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https://www.inquirer.com/sixers/sixers-ben-simmons-trade-rumors-fines-20211001.html
Probably both, his "chatting with big hurt" show or whatever it's called is basically an infomercial for the supplements with five minute Big Hurt interviews in between
Would it though? How many books are in Vegas? People are gonna gamble, in a lot of different places. There a lot of people in and around chicago as well as flying in and out of Chicago regularly.