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My friend works in compliance for one of the biggest sites in Canada and the stories are insane. Gambling is a sick, sick addiction and more people do it than we are aware of. The Lancet Public Health Commission on gambling is a great (sad) read. The NBA should genuinely be ashamed they lift these companies as much as they do. Shoutout Pat.

Adam Silver’s bald penis head does not care about anything besides money

The NBC halftime with the crew checking the status of several prop bets made me want to vomit. My college age son developed a gambling addiction. It is not safe to let your young children watch NBA games. This country has gone to shit. 

EDIT: To mention “Dunk The Halls.” The NBA teams up with Disney/ABC to sell the NBA to very young kids on Christmas Day leading into the Christmas Day games on ABC. The 2024 show included a CGI Adam Silver interacting with Mickey Mouse and friends. So after this show, the whole family watches NBA games packed with gambling content, ads and sponsorships. Congress should put a stop to this sick shit.   https://www.nba.com/news/disney-espn-and-the-nba-present-dunk-the-halls-the-live-animated-cavaliers-vs-knicks-on-christmas-day

hard to hate on this guy, at least he has morals

Lol its crazy turning on a game or checking the score on espn and everyone has mid game picks for random bets plastered all over the screen. I just turn it off, the levels they have gone to ingrain gambling into the average viewing experience are already pretty disgusting and its just getting started

He’s right you know

Sleepy P waking up to make a great point

good to hear an owner speak like this (edit: team president)

I’ve always wondered what the NBA would look like if Pat Riley was commissioner.

I just can’t believe so many people are into sports gambling. I get that it’s fun and maybe if people do it with self-control, that’s one thing. Like betting $5 on a horse in the Kentucky Derby.

But the people who are really into it? I just don’t understand how they can think they have any angle that the rest of the market doesn’t have too. It’s one thing to bet a beer against another dude in the bar over who wins. That’s just you vs him. But to think you know more than the casinos and all the other gamblers is nuts.

its not that rozier got involved with gambling. its that being a player in the sport compromises the integrity of gambling which the league is trying to protect. so its actually a pro-gambling stance that the league is taking so theres no contradiction.

Honestly, it’s nice for someone like him to come out and call it out. It kinda feels like everyone is either pro or can’t give a shit about it

I wish someone would ask Adam Silver “do you think it’s possible for someone with a gambling addiction to consume your sport?” Bc it is really baffling how it is impossible to avoid gambling while watching nba games. Some of the streaming sites basically make me have to actively leave the view with over/unders and such instead of the regular view being the standard.

Obviously, but nobody in the position to do anything will even say this

The Black SUVs are on the way Pat

Fuck gambling sites. Fuck gambling ads. Fuck youtubers who take gambling ad money. Fuck gambling companies. Fuck gambling.

No lies detected

Pat Riley didn’t get the memo that as long as something makes boatloads of money it’s ok in the US.

Damn, dude doesn’t even give he wife a tip. That poor woman.

Real shit. A good chunk of the posts here are “man I bet on this dude and lost a ton of money”

How is it a contradiction at all?

The nba should cancel all partnerships they have with gambling and prediction market sites. This is not what we want to be teaching young kids to do

Shout out FTX Arena

I miss when people cared about the competition more than the money line

What a lad

I think we need to make people have to start going to physical locations to gamble again. I don’t necessarily have a problem with sports betting, but the online sports books make it so easy to do and accessible.

Riley said fuck your money we here to ball

I don’t understand this logic. If a player showed up drunk and said but we have alcohol sponsors! No one would take that seriously. They would laugh. Players know what’s right and wrong when it comes to gambling and I don’t think sponsorship changes that too much.

It’s addicting and dopamine drives so many people into bankruptcy. The prospect of easy money catches way too many people slipping 

Riley just doesn’t give AF haha. He’s the best

I understand the optics argument, but from a logical standpoint I’ve never understood the whole “league advertises gambling but punishes players for it, such hypocrites!”

Like, no? If a player was punished for being wasted in a game would that be called hypocritical because sports leagues have beer commercials during their games and have official beer parters of the leagues and all that? Of course not, that’d be ridiculous.

Again, I do understand why the optics of it are ironic, but in actual reality I don’t think it’s hypocritical to advertise gambling to fans who are not playing in the games and don’t have the ability to directly influence the outcomes and then forbid it if the players that do.

I’ve been against sports betting since well before this new wave of sports betting and I remember the shit I got for saying things like how legalized sports betting will be the death of professional sports and I was MOCKED.

Now, I feel 100% vindicated and professional sports have never been in a worse place in this country.

Something they all do:

If you are winning they will cap you and limit the number of times you can bet and how much you can bet.

If you are losing there is no cap, you are manipulated to keep losing more.

Look at this cringey response from a FanDuel exec. Basically using lawyer-speak to say it would be irresponsible of them to let winning players keep winning.

Our wager limits allow us to manage our liability exposure and avoid unsustainable losses. They do sometimes limit individual users for a variety of different behaviors. Some users may have more information than we do. Some users may have a better model than we do. We’re comfortable taking wagers for them but we have to do it in a responsible manner that protects our company.

Source: https://youtu.be/unksvJ1JfDE?si=53J8mOS3Ji8yYtK3&t=1063

A good video to watch on this.

Modern sports diluted by gambling and the rage bait economy.

About fucking time someone said this

Bars

Pure and ethical basketball presented by DraftKings and FanDuel. Want to bet?

Fair point… but capitalism and greed are powerful forces

Sure the league is totally fine with gambling and ruining lives that way but not a 1 off partnership night with a local institution.

I wasnt the target demographic for the Magic City night, but the hypocrisy is loud

Dude has a point

This is and will remain one of the stupidest and laziest gestures to “hypocrisy” of all time.

Saying that it’s a contradiction for a sports league to advertise gambling while not wanting their own players to gamble on league games is like saying that it’s a contradiction for a restaurant to serve alcohol while telling their employees not to drink on the job.

This is why I never understand the argument of people calling Jordan a gambler and all the jokes etc. Sure, he gambles…

But Giannis rug pulled sports bettors by not only letting people bet with Kalshi on which team he’d go to. But then becoming an investor in the very same company. Bron is sponsored by DraftKings. The warriors have sponsorship with DraftKings.

The entire apparatus of sports betting has become a huge swath of insider trading. Refs. Players. Orgs. And no one seems to care how detrimental it is to the fanbase. If you want to bet then by all means go for it. But when the chips are that stacked against you from the start I wouldn’t touch a sports bet ever again.

It’s crazy how seemingly overnight gambling was accepted by every major sport at once. Now it’s everywhere. Even all the announcers are into the ads it seems.

I didn’t watch the Winter Olympics at all this year. Were gambling ads plastered there as well?

So much freaking kalshi, fan duel, draft kings and polymarket betting ads on NBA and NFL. I hate it

Not a single false word was spoken.

Sports gambling is an epidemic, and Silver shoulders some of the blame for his advocacy and partnership. It’s toxic and ruining a lot of lives.

But the NBA partnering with and running FanDuel ads is not why Billups and Rozier tipped people off about injuries. And there’s not much Silver could realistically have done to prevent that from ever happening. Players and coaches will hopefully realize that these types of bets are easily flagged by the apps and are not at all worth the lifetime bans (and criminal penalties) that are surely coming.

Organized crime has always been involved in sports gambling (and gambling, in general). Billups and Jones giving tips to their mobbed up poker cheating ring (or Rozier’s friend selling information to those same mobbed up guys) does not require an NBA partnership with DraftKings.

We also have don’t know whether there’s been a sudden uptick in gambling integrity problems. We know there’s been a sudden uptick in the detection and prosecution of those problems, but we also know that detection of those problems has become infinitely easier with bets moving from offline books to online apps.

How long did it take for a gambling add to come on after this was aired on tv?