is this even allowed

Kalshi offers betting on sports, political events, and any and all other aspects of public life, with CEO Tarek Mansour’s stated goal being to “financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference in opinion.”

This is just straight up unmasked evil

Did he bet against himself getting traded?

Giannis you are sentenced to .500 ball with Kuzma for ten more years

So gross holy shit

This is Giannis’ heel turn moment, zero respect for this money grubbing move

This “platform” literally held bets on whether Israel would bomb Gaza

hmmm.

NBA Reviews Timberwolves Owners’ Ties to Kalshi Sports Trading

Adam Silver needs to put an end to this ASAP if he wants to recover any credibility this league has left with the general public

Wait what??? Is he allowed to be part of a gambling platform?

Giannis graduating from player we enjoy to person we grow more and more tired of by the day

Pablo Torre just did a whole video on betting markets this week—see y’all in 10 months when he uncovers whatever scandal comes out of Giannis investing in one

Joining a company that lets people bet on wars and genocide, nice

nah fuck Kalshi and Polymarket, they should be RICO’d for multiple egregious crimes

Wtf is he doing man

This has to be a massive conflict of interest.

lol what a fucking dickhead. anyone involved with these platforms should be cast into the sun

Every day I hate professional sports more and more. wtf is this shit and how is it allowed?

How much money do these fuckers need?

When will it ever be enough for these rich freaks? 

LOL should of known. Classical scam

This is worse than Terry rozier, Malik Beasley, and Chauncey combined

Giannis is speed running his way to being more unlikeable than Ja Morant.

It’s one thing to do sports betting but this shit shouldn’t be legal. Too bad both Kalshi and Polymarket have friends and family of the President on their boards to ensure there’s no regulation of this for the foreseeable future

Dude is in the middle of a straight heel turn right now

I don’t like Giannis.

Giannis becoming more and more unlikable by the day

“I wish the Giannis trade rumors would stop, and we could talk about literally anything else!”

monkeys paw uncurls a middle finger

Mask is fully off now that he won’t get traded lol

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An active athlete having ownership of any sort on a gambling site/app cannot possibly be a good idea.

Not sure how the NBA would be chill with this.

Lmao you got to be kidding me man. Fuck prediction markets.

My opinion of Giannis is slipping hard this season

As a Greek this doesn’t surprise me one bit. He’s cooperated and done multiple ads for the two biggest betting companies in the country. He’s absolutely lost his mind

Rich people taking gambling sponsors are GHOULS

Not only have the billionaires taken most of our wealth with their crypto scams and rigged tax system. Now they are coming for the rest of it with rigged gambling apps that prey on the most vulnerable.

It’s killing sports for me

The biggest issue with sports gambling is the way that every league has welcomed it in rather than intentionally distancing themselves.

ive always loved Giannis, i didnt care about the trade rumors and stuff and was rooting for him

this genuinely has destroyed so much of my respect for him. fuck these scummy prediction markets. you get payed a gazillion dollars to play world class basketball. 

Gross

nahhhhhhhhhhhhh fk this guy

Same company that runs those stupid AI generated ads. Kalshi is a cancer to the world

fucking disgusting, fuck kalshi

If you haven’t watched Idiocracy yet, you should. Feels like we’re living it right now. Completely degenerate society

Owners are a different kind of rich, which has it’s own problems. But don’t ever again pretend these star players are some kind of down to earth working class.

This is fucking disgusting greed at it’s finest. Giannis career earnings: $338,006,542

Before you have weird ass redditors telling me how if I was given the chance, I would do it too, no I really won’t.

I don’t need a fucking billion dollars, let alone being a shareholder of one of the biggest problems with society today.

Giannis won a couple MVP trophies and a Championship and said “fuck it, let’s destroy my legacy”

Kalshi the company with ads having people say they think the Jazz or Wizards are winning the “basketball championship” this year. Hard pass.

That’s pathetic

Giannis is my favorite player but wtf is he doing this for? he is already loaded af. I could excuse his corny trade dancing but man this is low and sad.

We need David Stern back, Adam Silver is the weakest Commissioner ever.

The anti-gambling people were right. It only took a few years and now you can gamble on literally anything. How is this healthy for society?

To get involved in this shit AS AN ACTIVE PLAYER is absolutely insane

Giannis was my favorite NBA player.

His transformation over the last few years is unprecedented imo.

Basically gaslit his own franchise using the same tactic until now they are just as pathetic abused wife hanging on hoping he still loves them.

And now this?

How can a fucking NBA player be allowed to own a gambling company when he is clearly and openly manipulating his own situation? It doesn’t even matter if he is betting on his own contract situation. The conflict of interest is palpable.

If Silver doesn’t (or can’t) act, this is probably a worse look for the NBA than the Kawhi salary call cheating thing.

That’s gambling. How can an active player have a stake on gambling?

Damn, one of my favorite Giannis stories was him sending too much money home to his family that he had to walk back to the stadium… and now this? wtf man, is everyone in this world just money hungry scum?

I watch games with my 9-year-old son and tell him constantly that sports betting is for suckers. 

Kalshi’s existence is a regulatory issue bigger than Giannis. The fact is that as times have become hard in the US, an explosion of gambling platforms have followed that lack of opportunity and mobility. Giannis is just another rich person cashing in on the misery.

Elected officials have largely embraced these predatory businesses, and unless something dramatically changes in the next two years, it’s going to take some major incidents related to these companies for any regulation to be passed to rein them in. We all know Kalshi is a cynical, terrible idea and it’s a social ill. No one with money wants to stop it, and it’s going to keep operating until the government acknowledges we have a gambling epidemic.

Americans think regulation is a dirty word, so Giannis is making a smart investment at a personal level. Of course, it also speaks ill of him, but it doesn’t matter because he has hundreds of millions of dollars and we don’t have the power to enact regulation to prevent criminal organizations like Kalshi from operating legally.

Is that legal?

Big yikes. As if Bucks fans weren’t suffering enough already.

Fucking yikes