Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he profited from rigged poker games and provided sports bettors with nonpublic information about injuries to stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

I t's been only two weeks since the biggest scandal of the bet!-bet!-bet! era emerged. It has been largely forgotten, thanks to a stream of bright, shiny sports objects to attract the attention of our collective goldfish brain.