Watch: Inside Our $22K Sports Betting Experiment

Illustration by Mauricio Rodríguez Pons/ProPublica. Source images by Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images. Earlier this year, we heard that reporter Jake Pearson planned to ask our editors at ProPublica for more than $20,000 so he could spend the NBA playoffs betting like a problem gambler . We told him we wanted in on the action. For 10 weeks, our documentary team at ProPublica filmed Jake as he dove ball-cap-first into DraftKings and FanDuel, the country’s largest online sportsbooks.