The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is mired in "not-so-new" allegation of game-fixing. This time though, it involves a player from prestigious company that owned three teams in the league.
San Miguel Beer 3x3 player Daniel De Guzman was accused in a viral Facebook post that he duped friends into losing big money with a wrong 'tip' on the result of the Beermen's game against Barangay Ginebra last 10 September 2021.
De Guzman, through his agent Danny Espiritu, flatly denied involvement in the deal alleged in the FB post about thousands of bets lost in the PBA Philippine Cup game which the Beermen won over the Gin Kings, 111-102.
Based on the captions and screenshots of Viber chats in the FB post, the PBA player's friends in Nueva Ecija lost bets placed on Ginebra that they placed based on a 'tip' given by De Guzman, allegedly in exchange for a 'balato.'
De Guzman, who is no longer part of SMB's regular lineup but signed a six-month deal to play for the Beermen's 3x3 team, denied giving anyone 'tips' on the results of games, much less deliberately mislead anyone into wrong bets.
In a previous interview with Spin.ph, current PBA commissioner Willie Marcial admitted the league used to have agents from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) roaming venues during games monitoring 'suspicious activities.'
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