“Blue Bloods” Season 9 Episode 12 will be quite an interesting story to follow as it’s going to be dealing with the murder of a star college basketball player involved in sports betting. With the intensity of NBA and college basketball’s popularity taking new heights every season, it’s not surprising that the show is covering this sort of crime.
While nothing has been confirmed just yet, it may be that the murder in “Blue Bloods” Season 9 Episode 12 will be due to the deceased employing point shaving. For those unaware of the term, point shaving is the practice of ensuring that a team doesn’t meet the point spread forecasted by gamblers. For instance, if team A is expected to crush team B with a 10-point advantage, a corrupt player’s job is to ensure that this specific point difference will not be met.
Basketball is a pretty easy sport to conduct this illegal activity due to how the game’s scoring tempo is set up. A missed jump shot, missed free throws, an ill-timed foul, turnovers, bad passing, and a few other covert maneuvers can be used to achieve the desired result. Most of the time, there are multiple parties involved in point shaving with the other culprits usually spreading from other team members to outside parties like large crime syndicates. As such, “Blue Bloods” Season 9 Episode 12 will probably have Danny (Donne Wahlberg) and Baez (Marisa Ramirez) trace the murder to illegal gamblers who coaxed the player to commit the federal crime.
What will likely happen is that the corrupt player didn’t meet the required point shave instructed to him or refused to participate in such a practice altogether. Meanwhile, Frank (Tom Selleck) will be meeting with a former cop and tries to reinstate her into the force. The details are unknown about the copper’s firing but, if the synopsis is anything to go by, she may have been let go unfairly. As for when “Blue Bloods” Season 9 Episode 12 will air, it’s been scheduled for release on Jan. 11.
