We Unraveled the Case of a Basketball Mob Hit
EPISODE 365: Vegas.
It is no exaggeration to say that our correspondent today, film producer Sean Carey, has spent years examining what is, on one level, a pretty simple story.
Because there is no doubt that the murder of Hall of Fame basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian’s longtime confidante and agent, Vic Weiss, was a mob hit.
But the big lingering question we’re here to solve today is a lot more complicated:
Why?
Why did the mob really stuff Vic Weiss into the trunk of a Rolls-Royce — scaring Tark away from the Lakers and, in a Sliding Doors moment, ensuring the future of UNLV (as a program) and Las Vegas (as the new sports capital of America)?
Last week, Vegas just got named host of the 2029 Super Bowl. Weeks before that, the NBA announced that it was exploring an expansion team in the city.
In the last decade, Vegas — once the most dangerous sports city in America — has also become the new home of the NFL’s Raiders, NHL’s Golden Knights, WNBA’s Aces, MLB’s Athletics, not to mention an F1 race, and on and on.
This is the story of the unsolved murder that made it happen.
YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:
Viva,
Pablo