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Nick Wright tells The Post about how a wild night in Vegas ended with a $2 million Timberwolves bet

New York Post·Erich Richter·24 days ago
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The Nick Wright gambling show might have BetMGM changing their earnings reports. Fox Sports’ on-air talent featured in the Emmy-nominated show “First Things First,” had a wild weekend in Las Vegas that started with him attending David Benavidez dismantling Gilberto Ramirez last Saturday and ended with him placing a massive wager that has turned heads. Wright, a big-time poker player, who first explained part of the story on the Bill Simmons Podcast on Tuesday, told The Post in a phone interview Thursday that he is sitting on a $10,000 bet on the Minnesota Timberwolves to win the NBA Finals at 200/1 odds, with a win profiting $2 million — though he had some help during this wild weekend. “I was in Vegas to go to a fight with Nick Schulman, who happens to be literally the world’s biggest poker player,” Wright began. “He also happens to be the sharpest boxing guy in the world. We had six seats for the Benavidez fight.…

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