NBA working w/ Draftkings & Fanduel to introduce betting into the League Pass app

[Jahensle]

As a former software dev, the league pass app is a total piece of crap and has been since its inception. This will just bloat it and introduce more bugs unless it's a full rewrite.

[Michael Jackson]

I don’t understand the reference (I think this was a reference to something) but I’m not complaining about the gambling environment prior to Murphy vs NCAA. Any non-addict American who cares about his fellow man and the state of society would be supporting creating federal laws to restrict the idiocy of trump’s court.

I had to look it up. lol it was actually. Chevy Chase in Dirty Work and he tells Norm McDonald he bets on Mr T. lol.

never heard of the movie but both of those guys are awesome so I'll be watching it tonight

It is a norm classic. It isn’t that great but if you like that era comedy a few good chuckles.

[Axl Rose]

Well this didn't take long

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[dougthonus]

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I think the flip side of this, is the NBA is showing that it is taking controls around gambling seriously.

They caught suspicious prop bets on a 2 way player after 3 occurrences. They're correlating prop bets, side of the money, and player outcomes to look into this stuff, so they clearly have developed some guard rails.

Also a reminder on how people really don't understand risk/reward well. No idea how much these bets on Porter paid off, but fair chance he's done as an NBA player over this.

[MalagaBulls]

Even Tatum is chiming in:

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[Mr. Tibbs]

I guess I see it from a few perspectives.

The inundation of marketing and advertising is annoying as all hell. And it certainly feels different being a parent watching with younger kids. Having to explain to my basketball fanatic nephew that no Draftkings will not you make you rich in any way shape or form and is not a viable career path lol. It feels like pretty blatant false advertising. Anyone capable of making real money off these things is inevitably going to get blacklisted by any sportsbook. That being said, I'm sure my parents had similar feelings watching me as a kid take in every alcohol related commercial when I was watching games.

The actual gambling part of things? I can't be a hypocrite, it certainly can make a meaningless game in January a lot more exciting. I'd be willing to sacrifice it if it meant protecting the future generation (also cuz I'm not making a dime off of this treadmill ass squad), but obviously don't expect that to ever happen (cat's out of the bag now), and it genuinely is fun to do with friends too.

In regards to there being more Jontay Porters, it certainly is possible, but they also snuffed him out very easily and I literally didn't know the man existed til reading the headline. If they did want to generally eliminate that kind of behavior, sportsbooks could just eliminate player prop bets and have it only be team props.

My last thought, I think what I found most annoying was the 500k fine they gave Gobert for making the money hand gesture at the refs. I get why they did it, but man, I'm literally reading articles about the incident that are sponsored by Fanduel lol. If they're getting in bed with the Sportsbooks, they should be able to handle some extra levels of criticism/scrutiny.