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Celtics' Jaylen Brown Addresses Growing Gambling Scandal Surrounding NBA (www.si.com)

submitted 2 months ago by SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works to c/nba@lemmy.world

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"We don’t benefit from any of the profits or anything like that, but we’ve got to deal with a lot of the extra negativity and scrutiny behind all the gambling stuff. And then on top of that, it creates more integrity issues, etc. So I’m not sure what the answer is going forward, but definitely something that people have got to spend more time having conversations about.”

I can't believe this guy is considered to be intelligent.

The guy with one of the largest contracts in league history($285m/5yrs) and Player's Union VP says they don't benefit from all the extra revenue they get from the 50/50 split. The latest CBA even allows them to own less than 1% of sports betting company.
Even if they got more money that doesn't make any of this gambling stuff okay.

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[–] Nusm@peachpie.theatl.social 3 points 2 months ago

I actually heard a podcast that argued that legal gambling helped to catch these guys. The gambling entities and league are partners, and the gambling companies report suspicious activity to the league. That was part of the evidence against Rozier, that there were a ton of prop bets on him for unders, and that was immediately flagged as suspicious and reported.