Because its provocative, it gets the people going

Because he just signed a 15mil/yr endorsement for them to attach his name and face to the company?

That doesn’t only apply for good news btw, if he doesn’t want his name attached maybe he shouldn’t have endorsed it 🤷‍♂️

It gets the views

It wouldn’t be relevant to r/nba if an NBA personality wasn’t involved

Cus it’s true

His endorsement is not irrelevant as one of the most prominent basketball players of all time if not the outright number 1.

Because Lebrons endorsement deal was noteworthy and is better for SEO to include him in the article title

For clicks

Cause he has to be shoehorned into everything apparently.

Because zoomers don’t understand anything about how endorsements work

To gather Rich Paul’s and Nike’s paid goons/bots to comment on anything LeBron related

Because he’s the Joe Camel of prediction markets.

If you’re wanting a serious answer, OP has been one of the biggest LeBron haters on this subreddit for YEARS. He is infamous for being one of the premier LeBron haters on Reddit. I seriously hope he finds the help he needs lol

Need the clicks.

Eh I’m fine with more freedom. People should be free to gamble if they want to.

If you can’t do LeTime, don’t do LeCrime

a punishment worse than death

Clippers

He’d be happy playing in New York lmao

What punishment? He signed an endorsement deal. You think athletes who endorse Nike get punished if Nike got sued for some shady crap? Plus, even if he was named as a defendant in the suit, you don’t think LeBron’s lawyers would be smart enough to include complete indemnification language in his endorsement contract for just this eventuality?

The state of ny takes a 51% cut on all sports book transactions. It’s clearly not about what’s safe for the users. Maybe all gambling is in fact bad?

Users lol

I just hope this means I never have to see Rick Rubin’s clown face on my TV again.

states aren”t mad they exist. they just mad they aren’t getting a cut. once they can figure out how they get their cut they’ll go back to not caring

Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are regulated at the federal level by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Is it wrong though? What’s the difference conceptually between betting on a future trading for orange juice (like in Trading Places) vs. for OKC?

I understand being against betting markets as they make the degenerate gambling societal problems worse, but it’s not wrong that the stock market, draftkings & fanduel, kalshi & polymarket, are all conceptually one and the same.

It’s interesting but we have to question who the bad guys are here. Do some hate all forms of gambling and sports betting? The ones skirting the law are actually more user friendly as you are in fact trading option calls and puts and have premiums involved etc.

The state of NY has had a recent push in allowing more casinos to operate and exist. They all pay the tax man even though casinos have been proved to be a detriment to communities.

LeBron’s just trying to diversify his portfolio, but this one’s a real gamble!

Yeah, actually super disappointed in him

You are not thinking about the millionaires and billionaires profiting from this like lebron said, you are not educated on the issue.

There’s no way you wouldn’t be a piece of shit for $15 million. Shit, you’re doing it here for free

New York runs a state lottery so clearly New York is only against gambling when they can’t monopolize the grift.

Boo hoo people spending their own money as they wish on gambling bad. Me making decisions for how others live their lives good.

Legal gambling good. Slightly more favorable to the user gambling bad?  It’s odd we aren’t pushing for these underdogs here

There’s a reason casinos and gambling doesn’t exist in many states and countries. We can push that ban the other direction too.

Huge difference between an app on your phone and a physical casino. The barrier to betting is significantly lower for an app, compared to physically traveling to a casino.

It’s literally gambling bro. It’s bullshit to suggest it’s not. But yes that’s the reason people will vote republican, because sports betting. But hey at least we aren’t at $5 gas…wait..

Except polymarket is literally gambling with the dumbest attempt at a loophole around it

Men who are going to vote republican because of this were always going to vote republican in the first place

Men’s interest? More like an addiction problem

So you have no problem with gambling as it stands?

It’s fucking gambling. We all know it’s gambling. New York has legal sports betting with guidelines. Polymarket and Kalshi don’t want to subject themselves to the same rules as DraftKings and Fanduel and whatever. They want to have their cake and eat it too.

I get that government involvement will not benefit them at all, but overall these prediction markets are a net negative for society.

There’s literally military members gambling on this and signaling information

Is it not unlicensed gambling? Not to mention the shady fake winnings they advertise to get everyone to download

Gambling being your everyday man’s passtime should be enough reason to illustrate why this lawsuit is necessary

Let’s see how New York votes in the next election to see if you’re right!

No horse in this race (eh) because I’m an ocean away. But calling gambling “men’s interests” is really something. Might as well be upset there’s some kind of regulation that makes setting up heroin vending machines illegal or something.

Evading taxes to bankrupt people is bad, I heard

It’s clear gambling isn’t going away, why not take their cut?? Feds turned the faucet on and each state has slowly approved gambling.

Why should kalshi have a more favorable designation? It’s gambling with fancier words as a loophole to save tons of $$.

Hopefully other states follow suit.