“Idc bout yall parlays,” Monk tweeted early Thursday morning. And in a special guest appearance, his Sacramento Kings teammate Kevin Huerter joined the show to let bettors know he also doesn’t care about their parlays. “Respectfully,” Huerter chimed in with. In summary
I hate listening to Simmons talk about parlays.
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The worst is how it’s taken over tik tok/social media as well as professional media. Sportsnet in Canada will have entire ass segments on whether pascal will get more than 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 3s or some shit
Before game 1 of last years finals, ESPNs entire pregame coverage was just asking what players will hit which of their over unders. That was it. We had the first ever play-in to finals team with an elite and exotic defense going against the most dominant offensive player in the game and all they wanna ask is if jamal Murray is gonna hit 5 assists or not
The stream service I use to watch game has twitch chat embedded right next to the stream. The amount of degeneracy that goes on regarding players hitting a certain threshold so they can win their money is crazy.
Sports betting has sort’ve taken over. Just look at all the commercials now.
It’s kinda weird that the nba is sponsored by multiple betting sites
I have a question about betting that hopefully someone can answer. Sports betting is illegal here Georgia, but for some reason we can use PrizePicks and do parlays on players overs and unders. If you get 6 out of 6, you get like 25Xs your wager.
My question is, is that the same rate of return with a legit sports book in Vegas? I have a hunch you make way more in a legit casino where full sports betting is legal.
This is the right and normal reaction.
Like we are really in some weird and dark times. Do people know how easily players could manipulate betting lines if they wanted to?! Do you really want players fully cognizant and participatory of over unders, point lines, etc .
Yet people (casual fans) are realllly pushing players to embrace betting. It’s a setup. If players embraced gambling like fans allegedly want them to its a scandal waiting to happen
Like we are really in some weird and dark times…
Basketball betting scandals? A tale as old as time: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2018/05/11-biggest-scandals-in-sports-gambling-history
If anything, it’s a complete surprise/anomaly we haven’t had a scandal in the past 10 years.
I mean these dudes make way too much. Why risk it, no way you could make more via betting. Devin Vassell (call me a casual, till Tuesday I didn’t even know who that was) will make more by the end of his current contract that Connor fucking McDavid will make by the same time.
The players benefit a lot from all those gambling endorsements by the league, it’s a major reason the salary cap can be that high and they can make that much. Darius Garland is making 40m per year. I’m no hater, but that’s more than CEOs of JPMorgan, BOA, Goldman, Coke, Nike and so on.
Just think of how successful a business you own and operate has to be for you to be making 30-40m even for 5 years.
Refs: And I took that personally
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But what about his own parlay?
Huerter should have stayed shut the f*** up nobody asked him. Monk has my full respect. What was he supposed to say, “I just love shaving points for all you degenerate gamblers”?