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The NBA is too all in on gambling.
liam:
I am not a fan of all this gambling. I don't need to see the lines during the games. I don't need to hear about all the prop bets. All this focus on gambling calls into question the integrity of the game.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/killing-youth-america-calls-crackdown-110013186.html
Kernewek:
--- Quote from: liam on December 01, 2023, 04:37:44 PM ---I am not a fan of all this gambling. I don't need to see the lines during the games. I don't need to hear about all the prop bets. All this focus on gambling calls into question the integrity of the game.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/killing-youth-america-calls-crackdown-110013186.html
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I agree with you, but the leagues love it because it encourages additional engagement (and beyond gambling sponsors tend to pay very well).
That said, some gambling can do some good - The National Lottery, for example, funds lots of very worthwhile things in the U.K. Charity raffles are also technically gambling as well.
I don't believe that any of the major sportsbooks do anything like that, though.
86MaxwellSmart:
--- Quote from: liam on December 01, 2023, 04:37:44 PM ---I am not a fan of all this gambling. I don't need to see the lines during the games. I don't need to hear about all the prop bets. All this focus on gambling calls into question the integrity of the game.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/killing-youth-america-calls-crackdown-110013186.html
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I agree...Kind of sickening. All I hear is FanDuel this and FanDuel that....we went from "Gambling is Bad", to "EVERYONE start Betting-!!"
Donoghus:
You sound like my dad.
He texted me pretty much the same things like 2 weeks ago.
Celtics2021:
At some point I think it’s going to blow up in their face when there’s actual evidence of games being rigged. In the mean time, there’s a lot of money in it.
And as for Kernewek’s comment on lotteries funding things — in some states, at least, the sportsbooks and casinos have had to pay some significant fees and taxes to enter the market. I’m going to be curious how much tax revenue Mass. has made from it, because that was a major selling point of letting the sportsbooks in.
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