Kevin Durant is also an investor with Kalshi.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7028388/2026/02/06/giannis-antetokounmpo-kalshi-nba-prediction-market/

Stop putting celebrities on pedestals. Especially wanna-be billionaires.

Jokic has also pledged his support for Serbia’s dictatorship, but he likes horses and sort of used to look like a seven foot redditor so it doesn’t matter

Sponsorships ≠ investments.

It is entirely different appearing in commercials and promoting gambling (which is still bad) and actively having an investment stake in a gambling company that you can shift the odds on with one comment to the media.

You would think LeBron, being the face of the NBA, would face more consequences for his involvement in sports betting advertisements.

Why would anyone think this? There’s no consequences to face. The league is fine with it.

NBA players don’t give a fuck about ethics, just money. We gotta stop romanticizing millionaires.

For example, Steph Curry has 30mins invested into Israeli war tech. Genocide is cool as long as he makes money.

Edit: 30mil lol

A reminder that in the last CBA negotiations, the NBAPA let the owners implement stricter salary limitations in exchange for players being allowed to invest in gambling companies

The fuck is this post? NBA itself heavily promotes gambling. Gambling is addictive and bad. I dont gamble and I dont support it. But if you have to be real about it and wants to be a saint, then dont watch NBA or any sports for that matter. You guys seem to be not living in the real world.

Dont pick and choose what you are going to be outraged about.

Didn’t that Steph and Shaq FTX thing turn out to be a scam

Breaking news rich person doing something to become richer.

Idc what the players do when the NBA and their partners benefit from the same gambling partnerships.

/r/NBA getting soooo worked up about this is the most redit thing ever. Just love circle jerking about their morality.

I don’t understand the hate. They’re getting paid millions to be in commercials. So odds are they aren’t rigging bets to make more money.

It is very easy for these companies to catch rigged prop bets. Any bet that’s a significant amount of money on no-name players getting under X amount of points, assists or rebounds gets flagged. Thats why they get caught doing what they do.

Contrary to popular belief Vegas wants to ensure the public that sports gambling is 100 percent free of collusion or rigged events. They make money regardless of any particular outcome. A player rigging games or a prop bet screws them out of money. And it makes the public uneasy about betting which costs them even more money.

People are under the impression shady stuff happens more today than in the past because they see reports of players getting caught. 20+ years ago players did the same thing but with illegal bookies that were much harder to catch.

It’s no different than alcohol ads which also destroy people’s lives.

You guys gonna be mad about every NBA player that does alcohol ads as well?

Unironically why we need adblockers everywhere.

ngl. i dont mind, theyre promoting something legal, it is what it is. feels like this is the virtue signal topic of the month for r/nba

I just cant fathom why these dues with 150 million dollar contracts need to do gambling ads for a few million

The league sold out to gambling companies, of course there’s no consequence for the players.

Wemby better not end up on this list, or I’ll get very angry….ye be warned

It’s kind of incredible to me how the US is shooting itself in the foot in ways big and small right now. Just about everything is on a downward trajectory. Get ready to learn Chinese buddies.

Giannis has a stake in Kalshi lol

The league is more compromised than it’s ever been. And these specific players already have the world but still want more. Pathetic

Steph Curry being a religious Christian but has a gambling sponsorship is too funny man

OP, sponsored and investment are very very different things. You’re conflating them.

The league is sponsored by FanDuel or some other betting company. That has its issues but still.

Investing or taking ownership into a betting company, is a humongous conflict of interest.

This outrage is all performative, people only give a shit about the giannis kalshi thing because it’s new and people want something to hate on, no one ever held this same energy for any of these other players and I guarenteed people will forget about this in a week because it’s such a nothing-burger

Who cares?

Crypto is very different from gambling.

Kalshi, Polymarkey, and various Crypto things are not the same as sports betting morally fyi. Just a note. I’m also annoyed by the sports betting.

“Stephen Curry

Steph Curry is another respected NBA player with ties to shady trading businesses.

Here he is (alongside Shaq, because of course) advertising a Crypto website, which I think safely falls in the category of gambling”

I dunno. Gambling, in theory at least, gives you a fair shot if you understand statistics. Crypto is a ponzi scheme manipulated by whales/rug pullers. The only way to win is by being an insider.

Maybe reddit is wrong and if you dont like to gamble just dont?

I think crypto is a separate issue than an investment where you yourself can alter the outcome of many sport bets. Being in gambling ads is kinda more along the lines of stupidity that every game is riddled with alcoholic ads, but any player in the league would get fined for doing the same thing.

How is cryptocurrency gambling? More importantly, how is it adjacent to SPORTS gambling? Idc if players are promoting Robinhood or something, there isn’t really a conflict of interest there.

Promoting sports betting is a bit different since they’re athletes who could presumably have bets placed on themselves.

But I do think it’s kind of weird to dogpile on Giannis when LeBron and Shaq have been promoting DraftKings for a few years now. More importantly, the NBA and NFL promote gambling themselves. I know it’s disappointing to see a player promoting it but Giannis just wants a bag at the end of the day.

What consequences do you think they should face?

Nba has draft kings on the floorboards it prints money

Redditors thinking and feeling morally superior because they’re broke will always be something

I go to Vegas once every year or two, take in some shows, play some poker and spend some time in the lounge betting on games. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to feel deeply ashamed over this or something. I read posts here and people seem to be equating this behavior with producing CP or something.

It’s not so much I disagree as I just find it to be completely foreign. These threads often start with some nebulous idea about sports betting and corruption, which doesn’t really make sense to me but at least I can kind of vaguely see the idea, but then tend to gravitate to this idea that involvement in any form of gambling is just pure evil in and of itself. I mean, this post complains about crypto or involvement in Serbian soccer betting, which has zero relation anybody throwing games.

Do all you anti-gambling people want to make alcohol illegal also? That’s not rhetorical, it’s a real question. If not, then why not? I used to think that marijuana legalization was the kind of thing that virtually everyone agreed with except the far right, but over time I’m getting the sense that there’s a large crowd that feels that no kind of minor vice should be tolerated at all as long as anybody is hurt by it.

I just don’t see how we go from “some people have a real problem with this” to “it should be banned and anyone involved should be publicly shamed” . People are gong to take this as me disagreeing, but I’m really not. I’m really just trying to understand what makes some of you so angry about this particular vice when you don’t seem to get angry over any other.

Do the people comparing gambling addiction to caffeine or weed or video games really think those things are equivalent?

Jordan Clarkson and Austin Reaves endorsed ArenaPlus, a sports betting app in the Philippines.

The gambling stuff was collectively bargained, and neither the players or owners are gonna give back a dime. Nothing for Mr. Silver to do other than sit back and rake in the dumb money. 

Everyone with a podcast has gambling sponsorships as well

Quite sad that players who are already multi millionaires will willingly advertise for this industry.

I see very little distinction between players associating with the gambling companies and LeBron’s endorsement deal with that crypto exchange.

Looking at these individuals feels like low hanging fruit. We should be pushing legislators to regulate advertising with sports gambling. The money is too lucrative and everyone is compromised at this point.

I judge the shit out of anyone who promotes these gambling platforms. Also, you’re supposed to pretend crypto is investing because it’s plausible. It isn’t 100% necessarily gambling even though most people use it that way

I think it’s a mistake to lump sports gambling sites in with “prediction markets” like Kalshi and Polymarket.

I’m all for holding people accountable but you guys take virtue signaling to an entirely new level I mean omg!

Correct me if I’m wrong (European here, can’t watch games live) but doesn’t NBA advertise gambling, “trading” services in games? If so, I wouldn’t expect Silver to do anything about players’ deals.

Biggest way to fish for karma on Reddit is to act like gambling is the same thing as murder. Some of y’all are fucking dweebs. If you don’t want to gamble, don’t. No player is forcing any fans to gamble

Solid post but I don’t see the point in including stuff like this:

Bet is my middle name. LeBron Raymone Bet James! Let’s get it 🤣😤👑

Using examples this meaningless kind of just ruins the credibility of everything else you talk about

Imagine MJ in today’s era. Dude would have that DraftKings sponsorship locked up

Dude the NBA’s so fucking alive rn in terms of drama.

Y’all are such puritans

Terry Rozier should just invest in all of them then shoutout the big name players for also making smart investments lol

Yeah but they’re not Giannis and I wanna be a little crybaby bitch about Giannis so shut up OP /s

Your reminder that free market unregulated capitalism is ruining everything in our society.

This is wrote by a bucks or Giannis fan. Trying to point fingers instead of taking accountability for yours is not the way.

Fair enough post, I would just say there’s a difference between doing an ad and being a shareholder 

I think saying crypto is gambilng is a huge reach. By extension, is trading in wall street gambling as well?

The more you look into Jokic’s life, the less likeable he becomes.

You would think LeBron🥀

All sports leagues and gambling is scammy as fuck. Just a constant reminder that pro sports is ENTERTAINMENT and huge money making BUSINESSES.

Every nba player is gambling or work for gambling company.

“The league needs to put a stop to this!!!”

Brother, they literally get paid millions by these companies now to run ads during games. The money-printing machine is working as intended.

How can we relate being paid to appear in a commercial for a sports betting site the same as being an investor Ina sports betting site?

Also can someone explain how Crypto has any conflict of interest with sports?

The issue isn’t about the morality of gambling. It’s about the conflict of interest when participating in a sport that is being gambled on for your own profit.

Just a side note, I know about 10 people who have destroyed their lives sports betting just in the last 5 years. If you know you get addicted to this kind of stuff, and haven’t done it yet. Please don’t. It is such a slippery slope.

Okay paint me a rager but am I the only one to see the down votes on these posts? The comments are getting the community’s support at least.

Once again, it’s a terrible look and Silver just doesn’t seem to care.

Im disappointed with Giannis… Who knows he might gamble on Kalshi and put a bet on no trade for him this trade deadline

Crypto has its own issues but I wouldn’t put it in the gambling category. Although that ad Steph did was for FTX, which… yikes lol

Steph was also involved with that krypto exchange that went under for shady reasons. Love my captain but he’s got a track record of shadiness building up now.