"We don’t benefit from any of the profits or anything like that, but we’ve got to deal with a lot of the extra negativity and scrutiny behind all the gambling stuff. And then on top of that, it creates more integrity issues, etc. So I’m not sure what the answer is going forward, but definitely something that people have got to spend more time having conversations about.”
I can’t believe this guy is considered to be intelligent.
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The guy with one of the largest contracts in league history($285m/5yrs) and Player’s Union VP says they don’t benefit from all the extra revenue they get from the 50/50 split. The latest CBA even allows them to own less than 1% of sports betting company.
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Even if they got more money that doesn’t make any of this gambling stuff okay.
Maybe it’s not that he isn’t intelligent, but that you didn’t understand what he was saying… He was asked a question about what he thinks of the scandal and gambling in relation to the NBA, and he’s telling you how it affected him. Him pointing out that other people benefitted once again in the back of their work while the players took all of the detriment, does not imply he thinks it would’ve been fine otherwise; in fact he acknowledges the integrity issues. Maybe his point is that the situation gives incentive to people like Billups and Rozier because the league wants to have it both ways while they make their money off gambling.
I actually heard a podcast that argued that legal gambling helped to catch these guys. The gambling entities and league are partners, and the gambling companies report suspicious activity to the league. That was part of the evidence against Rozier, that there were a ton of prop bets on him for unders, and that was immediately flagged as suspicious and reported.
Only 46% said the players polled said it was bad and 34% of them said it was good.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6298159/2025/04/22/nba-player-poll-gambling-partnerships/
Young people inundated with sports betting ads that doctors warn can be harmful
Which is in line with how Jaylen responded; seems like most players lean against it. How does the amount of money he makes change the fact the league is hypocritically leveraging players for their own gain? It’s not an implied indicator of the players’ collective opinion. You know that pointing out slavery is exploitative doesn’t mean you want to engage in it, right?
Are you struggling with English or basic math.
The gambling revenue has absolutely increased league revenues aside from players like Lebron outright being sponsored by Draftkings. League revenue determines the salary cap, the guy making Supermax/35% of the cap said that.
I really don’t get this logic of the guy being some clueless victim at the same time a fountain wisdom comes from aside from Trump level idolization.
. First of all, are you just having a bad week or something? You’re really overdoing this “everyone whose opinion I don’t like is stսpіd” bit. Seems like you’re clinging to that one line about them not benefiting and ignoring the context of everything else he said, so you can make the league’s case that players should just take the money and shut up about all the other stuff that comes with the gambling deals (like being harassed about parlays), and that if he has any other concerns about it, he must be a іdіоt.