Silver needs to clean up the sport

[LakersLegacy]

silver needs to be removed

We did not vote him in. He was revealed to be a cheat with the Seattle Oklahoma emails.

He allows Ballmer and college roommate $50,000,000 ($48,000,000 to Kawhi)

He allows coach to do wire fraud

He allows players to rig regular season games

He allows players to rig play-off games

He allows former players to rig the betting

He allows players to wear a contact lens that uses the table to see marked cards using radiation imaging built into the table, hidden cameras in the chip tray, card counting in shuffling machine

while fans line up to get stolen from

[jezzerinho]

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.

The closest I can think of in English is "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas" and by God is Adam Silver a prize turkey.

[Slacktard]

If you got a guy making $20m+ a year... If you got a NBA coach on a multi-year deal doing ****... Guess what? You got NBA players doing it making the minimum or a few million (hell, someone from Toronto got pinged last year? or so).

I guarantee this **** is WAY MORE widespread than this. Not just players, but referees. We've seen it before. It's even easier to bet now than it was 10+years ago and then having to be using bookies and ****.

We've seen it through college sports. Basketball, baseball (even a coach there), football, etc.. This is all over the place and the leagues getting in bed with betting only AMPLIFIED the situation.

When you got professional sport broadcasts actually showing betting lines in real time. Showing prop bets in real time. That only does one thing. It fosters and grows the betting culture among sports fans and players alike.

[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.

Ding, ding, ding.

People want to replace him for a person that would do the exact same thing? Even sillier is getting mad at the game not being like the 90s of being mad at the NBA Cup or something.

Your issue is with capitalism, my dudes. This is an unfortunate result of it.

Unfortunate for who though? Players are making more money than ever. Franchises reaching crazy valuations. Network Deals paying billions. The game keeps growing globally. I would say the vast majority of people involved in the NBA are very happy with where things are at and heading.

I think I already addressed that, while simultaneously covering the fact that rich people get even richer because of this, so obviously they like it. It's unfortunate for the average sports media consumer, in my opinion. Sports betting has been around forever, but its a niche industry people had to seek out to participate in. Shoving it into every facet of watching professional sports has consequences. I personally think it would be a bad thing if every Target, Chili's, and Chevron has slot machines. Nor do I think it would be great if every time you went to Amazon you were guided to a special area where you can gamble the money away that you came there with to buy things you need. So yeah I dont think its a great thing for the average person to turn on Inside the NBA and have segments explaining to you which bets to place on the game you're about to watch, then you press a button on your phone and mindlessly throw your money at it in the span of a minute. I'm not trying to get all preachy here. I just think its having a negative impact on the way people consume the media. but do i think its having a negative impact on owners and players wallets? **** no.

[Kiss of Death]

He certainly does need to clean up the sport.

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[PushDaRock]

Ding, ding, ding.

People want to replace him for a person that would do the exact same thing? Even sillier is getting mad at the game not being like the 90s of being mad at the NBA Cup or something.

Your issue is with capitalism, my dudes. This is an unfortunate result of it.

Unfortunate for who though? Players are making more money than ever. Franchises reaching crazy valuations. Network Deals paying billions. The game keeps growing globally. I would say the vast majority of people involved in the NBA are very happy with where things are at and heading.

I think I already addressed that, while simultaneously covering the fact that rich people get even richer because of this, so obviously they like it. It's unfortunate for the average sports media consumer, in my opinion. Sports betting has been around forever, but its a niche industry people had to seek out to participate in. Shoving it into every facet of watching professional sports has consequences. I personally think it would be a bad thing if every Target, Chili's, and Chevron has slot machines. Nor do I think it would be great if every time you went to Amazon you were guided to a special area where you can gamble the money away that you came there with to buy things you need. So yeah I dont think its a great thing for the average person to turn on Inside the NBA and have segments explaining to you which bets to place on the game you're about to watch, then you press a button on your phone and mindlessly throw your money at it in the span of a minute. I'm not trying to get all preachy here. I just think its having a negative impact on the way people consume the media. but do i think its having a negative impact on owners and players wallets? **** no.

Fair enough, I wouldn't disagree with those things. But, I don't think this is a fad and I think these things are here to stay so we better learn how to deal with it.