Silver needs to clean up the sport

[og15]

He needs to cut the NBA's ties with betting companies and he won't do that.

When Silver brings that up to the board of governors (the owners) and they all look at how much money they are making, do you think he will get support for that?

It's still wild to me that NBA fans don't get that Silver doesn't just make these decisions unilaterally and that all these decisions are made by whomever owns your team via the rep in the board of governors.

Of course Silver is accomplishing his role by diverting the criticism from them, but guys, wake up, it's your teams owner (unless they voted against it), who wants gambling or whatever other thing you might hate.

[Rich Rane]

He needs to cut the NBA's ties with betting companies and he won't do that.

When Silver brings that up to the board of governors (the owners) and they all look at how much money they are making, do you think he will get support for that?

Watch on YouTube

MAYBE less gambling ads for like a few weeks, "we're gonna do our best to look into this", MAYBE some arrests/suspensions/bans after a "thorough investigation", and then business as usual for the league.

[Revived]

Read on Twitter

I mean this face of the league talking about how much he likes to bet.

[thelead]

Silver needs to rid himself of the sport. He owns a lot of this.

[madmaxmedia]

He could start by removing himself from the NBA. He was the one who brought all this betting s**t to the league.

I don't know if there's a proverb like this in the US, but we have a saying that goes like "Assign the frogs to drain the pond". Letting Silver deal with the mess he created is like assigning the frogs to drain the pond.

Adam Silver has never heard of Draft Kings or Fan Duel.

[OGSactownballer]

The sad thing is that they will roll over some chimp who was just trying to get his piece and walk away smugly with their ill gotten billions.

[PushDaRock]

He needs to cut the NBA's ties with betting companies and he won't do that.

When Silver brings that up to the board of governors (the owners) and they all look at how much money they are making, do you think he will get support for that?

It's still wild to me that NBA fans don't get that Silver doesn't just make these decisions unilaterally and that all these decisions are made by whomever owns your team via the rep in the board of governors.

Of course Silver is accomplishing his role by diverting the criticism from them, but guys, wake up, it's your teams owner (unless they voted against it), who wants gambling or whatever other thing you might hate.

People are just living in fantasy land and not the real world thinking it's going away. It's not even just sports gambling alone, we are living in a world where EVERYTHING will eventually be speculated/gambled on in some shape or form.

[SkyBill40]

There's literally NO chance the NBA breaks ties with sports betting. It's far too lucrative and the powers that be are all about generating revenue.

[Kiss of Death]

Silver throws Scott Foster at every game that certain teams need to win, and lo and behold, those teams win.

Gambling.
Rigging games.
What’s the difference?

[pepe1991]

Silver needs to go. Incompetent and lyer.

Lied he never heared of Aspiration.
In January, the NBA said it had conducted an investigation after being notified about unusual betting activity related to Rozier's performance in that game, and “did not find a violation of NBA rules.” “Terry was cleared by the NBA and these prosecutors revived that non-case,”

In October we find out that not only Rozier wasn't ever cleared, but he isn't even only person involved from NBA big fish names.

Silver is fool. For start he promised massive expending salary for no reason, only ways how he could do it is to boost revenue. Nobody actually wanted to invest in NBA but betting houses. Ofc they all have hidden agenda of "investing". Their involment & promotion creates army of gambling addict zombies who don't watch sports for love of sport but because they are willing to burn their future (and present) in delusional hope of big win.

Now all his "massive new revenue" is having epic backifre on credibility and integrity of a league.

[grimlock]

what's the nbas position on all this?

[Black Jack]

We Got To Keep The Fight Game Clean

[Indomitable]

I don't think that accepting sponsorship money from wagering companies makes the NBA more vulnerable to a player faking an injury to impact who wins or loses a bet.

Most crimes are proximity based. The people you hang out with can drag you down. It is normally nothing big at first. It is insignificant. Still once you get comfortable people can you get to behave in a questionable way

Nor does it make it more or less likely that someone might share a fact or opinion about the status or availability of a player. Doesn't that fact sharing happen at every press conference?

Actually people are far more likely to do questionable things once they start trusting. The predators are not stupid and have been doing this for years.

Betting sponsorships notwithstanding, player/team integrity is a challenge for all sports leagues. That challenge is not increased or decreased by the presence or absence of betting sponsorships. Not as long as the betting opportunities are widely available, legalized or not. Forgoing betting sponsorships would only be a PR benefit, without mitigating any of the sport integrity issues involved.

It happened in baseball but luckily the player was able to throw his translator at the problem. Therefore he got off scott free.

[FrobeBryant]

Silver is too dirty to be cleaning anything

[Senchu]

Silver in serious trouble if his refs get caught as well

Silver won't do anything imo.
If he isnt punishing Clippers then ref betting will be just another added thing to the list.

[ryguy613]

Best he can do is a DraftKings logo on all NBA jerseys

[ryguy613]

Read on Twitter

I mean this face of the league talking about how much he likes to bet.

Michael Jordan has a very well known gambling addiction lol. Its really funny to dig up a joke tweet from LeBron from 2019 to make this point.

[HotelVitale]

Guys, there is a lot of moralizing and pearl-clutching going on here. The NBA is a bunch of mega wealthy owners plus a 'league' that contains them that's trying to keep itself profitable and growing, which generally requires it to seem respectable and fair enough.

It feels like people are finding a few really small ways that it's crossing those lines to do some lame 'Silver is a fool!' rant. The Clippers thing is important and big enough that they're treating it as such, and the Billups thing is totally irrelevant and he'll still probably get punished for it.

Sports gambling ads are annoying to me and I do think those sites are ultimately a bad thing, but it feels like we'd be suddenly totally switching our standards and ignoring most of pro sports general functioning for decades to think that's a horrible moral shame.

None of this stuff is pure or untouched by greed or anything, never has been. And at the same time nothing ever goes too too far and ends up destroying the basic rules that the owners and players draw up and agree to. NBA's actually been pretty boring and mundane-ly free of real scandal for a long time.

[ryguy613]

I dont think everyone fully understands the situation with Silver, the NBA, and online Casino partners. While Silver had a cavalier (no pun intended) attitude about these partnerships, and he deserves some blame for that, this is really not about him. He didnt create it, and he cant end it. Do you really think the NBA is going to miss out on the billions of dollars offered by these partnerships while the NFL and MLB continue to rake in that money? What's the saying? The toothpaste is out of the tube. Cant put it back.

To be clear, I hate this ****. I question whether it should even be legal, but I certainly do not question the obvious negative impact it has on professional sports culture. The average person having the ability to throw serious money on a game like theyre playing **** candy crush sucks. And I'm not even anti-gambling btw. I like Vegas as much as the next guy... but we dont need the whole **** world to be Vegas.

Anyways, back to the point. This is an unstoppable force as long as its allowed and its making rich people even richer. Is what it is.

[Bad Bart]

This thread is like saying a bank robber needs to do something about the robbery at the bank they just robbed.