Comment on Celtics' Jaylen Brown Addresses Growing Gambling Scandal Surrounding NBA
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago- The players is part of the league and I don’t see how fighting for rights to have ownerships in these companies or be sponsored by them isn’t clear sign of them being complicit in the situation.
Only 46% said the players polled said it was bad and 34% of them said it was good.
nytimes.com/…/nba-player-poll-gambling-partnershi…
- The world exist beyond the ownership and players. Both of those parties has gained billions collectively while this stuff is constantly thrown in the face of people and youth gambling is substantially rising.
Young people inundated with sports betting ads that doctors warn can be harmful
edcasting@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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?
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you struggling with English or basic math.
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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.
edcasting@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
. 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.