Jacob "Jack" L. Molinas (October 31, 1931 – August 3, 1975) was an American professional basketball

Basketball

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 player and one of the key figures in the point shaving

Point shaving

In organized sports, point shaving is a type of match fixing where the perpetrators try to prevent a team from covering a published point spread. Unlike other forms of match fixing, sports betting invariably motivates point shaving. A point shaving scheme generally involves a sports gambler and one...

 scandal that almost destroyed NCAA basketball. Molinas attended Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School

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 and graduated from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1953, where he set a team record for most points scored in a game—a mark that was eclipsed a few years later by Chet Forte. He played briefly in the NBA

National Basketball Association

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 in 1954, participating in 29 games for the Fort Wayne Pistons

Detroit Pistons

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 before being banned for game-fixing activities. Molinas was said to have contacts with New York City mobster Thomas Eboli

Thomas Eboli

Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli was a New York City mobster who eventually became the acting boss of the Genovese crime family.-Early life:...

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