VIDEO SHOWS: DETROIT PISTONS AND DALLAS MAVERICKS TRAINING AHEAD OF NBA GAME IN MEXICO CITY/ COMMENTS FROM PLAYERS SHOWS: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (OCT 31 2025) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. DETROIT PISTONS TRAINING AT ARENA MEXICO 2. VARIOUS OF AUSAR THOMPSON, TRAINING 3. TOLU SMITH TRAINING 4. PISTONS TRAINING 5. VARIOUS OF THOMPSON 6. SOUNDBITE (English) DETROIT PISTONS PLAYER, AUSAR THOMPSON “For the team, just go as far as we could go, you know? Win as many games as possible and extend our playoff push as far as possible. For me, myself, just go into every game, you know, with the same mentality, you know, go to every game with the same mentality that I want to be aggressive, you know I want to kill whoever's in front of me on offense or defense” 7. VARIOUS OF THOMPSON 8. PISTONS TRAINING 9. BACKBOARD 10. VARIOUS OF JALEN DUREN SHOOTING 11. SOUNDBITE (English) DETROIT PISTONS PLAYER, JALEN DUREN “It's as serious as any other game. It's another game on the schedule that we're trying to get the win. Obviously, it's good to come out here and experience a new city, but there's definitely a game that we're taking 110%. We're serious about it, and we're coming to get the win.” 12. VARIOUS OF DUREN SHOOTING 13. VARIOUS OF PISTONS TRAINING 14. VARIOUS OF CADE CUNNINGHAM SHOOTING 15. SOUNDBITE (English) DETROIT PISTONS PLAYER, CADE CUNNINGHAM "You know, we all know basketball is a global game now and the NBA is the highest level of that. So, you know, to have us travel the world playing games, allow us to, you know, bring the highest level basketball around the world I think is important for the game and for, you know, the world to see that.” 16. CUNNINGHAM 17. PISTONS TRAINING 18. CHAZ LANIER 19. DALLAS MAVERICKS' ANTHONY DAVIS WAVING 20. MAVERICKS STEPPING ON STAGE FOR TEAM PICTURE 21. (SOUNDBITE (English) MAVERICKS PLAYER, ANTHONY DAVIS, SAYING: "It's very important. Like I said it, the game is global. So, it just doesn't stop in the United States of America, you know? We're a global game and continually trying to grow our game. So, it feels good. You know, you get to come to Mexico City and you got fans here cheering, you know, wearing jerseys and things like that. It's a great experience.” 22. MAVERICKS POSING FOR TEAM PICTURE 23. MEMBER OF MAVERICKS STAFF 24. SOUNDBITE (English) MAVERICKS COACH, JASON KIDD “Well Cooper's (Flagg), you know, put him in a position to be successful. He's done an incredible job in our first five games. He's 18 years old, understands how to play the game. So, tomorrow, just try to find a way to beat Detroit.” 25. KIDD WALKING AWAY 26. VARIOUS OF COOPER FLAGG WARMING UP 27. SOUNDBITE (English) MAVERICK PLAYER, COOPER FLAG “I don't know. I mean, I'm just, you know, I'm just trying to be the best that I can be for myself and my family. And, you know, I don't really see, whatever that is, between international and the U.S.A. It's just all players, you know, coming to compete and, you know, play really hard and so they can do. So, I'm just looking forward to going forward and just being myself and just trying to be the best that I can be be.” 28. VARIOUS OF COOPER FLAGG TRAINING 29. MAVERICKS WARMING UP 30. P.J. WASHINGTON 21. BACKBOARD 32. MAVERICKS WARMING UP STORY: The Detroit Pistons and Dallas Mavericks trained at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City on the eve (October 31) of their regular season NBA game in the Mexican capital. The two teams meet at the start of a season still rocking by Chauncey Billups, an NBA Hall of Fame player and head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a guard with the Miami Heat, being among more than 30 people charged in connection with two separate but related federal gambling investigations that involved the league and the Mafia. The schemes - one of them focused on insider sports betting and another that rigged poker games nationwide - spanned years and involved tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and gambling, FBI Director Kash Patel told a press conference on October 23. Rozier was one of several National Basketball Association insiders who allegedly provided non-public information about upcoming games to their criminal partners, who in turn used straw bettors to place multiple bets based on the tips, authorities said. Billups was charged in a separate case with helping to rig poker games to defraud unknowing players lured to the games with the promise of playing against celebrities. The defendants employed sophisticated technology to fix the games in New York, Las Vegas, Miami and elsewhere, including fraudulent card shufflers and x-ray tables. That scheme also involved the Bonanno, Gambino, Lucchese and Genovese organized crime families in New York, which controlled some of the underground poker games in the city where the rigging took place. The families took a cut of the profits, used extortion and robbery to collect unpaid debts and laundered proceeds through cryptocurrency and other means, according to prosecutors. While the arrests stemmed from two separate indictments, a handful of defendants were charged in both cases, including former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones. Mexico City hosts one of just three international regular season games with the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic facing off in Berlin on January 15 next year, before meeting again in London three days later. (Production: Diego Delgado, Stefan Haskins, Conal Quinn) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. 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