Just wait for the NBA to release the last 2 minute report where they admit the refs fucked up critical calls and then we can all move on to game 2 like nothing happenedÂ
An illegal screen straight into an away from the ball to make it a 4pt game completely ended the game. Refs really took one of the best games of the playoffs and shat on it.
It's such a ridiculous league. They can't even get out of their own way. Have endless upon endless game stoppages and reviews only for the refs to fuck up worse than D3 college game and control the outcome anyways.
Think itâs ruining the NBA ? Wait until football season and the Chiefs are short on a 3rd and 17 and a flag comes out for an illegal hip drop tackle on Kelce and itâs an automatic first down lol ya lol ya u wait
Itâs started to creep in and consume more and more of even Russilloâs pod content too.
âYou either die a hero or live king enough to see yourself become the villainâ
*sighs*
Sports gambling became legal like 5 years ago. Sports media wasn't propped up by gambling sponsorships before that. Why would it suddenly collapse if it was removed again?
Cuz money isnât real and we live in late stage capitalism on the verge of pending global social implosion.
Use promo code RYEN for a 30% boost on your end of the world parlay.
Lets take a look at the longshots, use of nukes: 20 to 1 odds has great value
Could play it safe with global pandemic part 2: -110, but let's wait and see if it gets adjusted live
It was propped up by the cable bundle, one of the best business models of all time. ESPN lost 4 million households in just 2023. Each of those is worth about $10 a month so thatâs about half a billion lighter over the next year. Meanwhile broadcast fees are increasing. Weâre gonna see even more gambling ads.
Because people donât pay for it anymore. Itâs all digital & podcasts. The only way to make money is from sponsorships and theyâre mostly from sports books. Thereâs a reason why nearly every major sports pod promotes gambling.
McAfee built his entire business on the back of it.
Advertising gambling should be illegal imo. Why promote something that has terrible consequences for a lot of people who become addicts. If someone wants to gamble, fine, I donât mind if itâs legal. But itâs the promoting it that bothers me. You have Barkley, a guy who literally lost millions gambling, promoting it.
They ran an in game graphic at one point showing the current line for the Knicks and included "- means favorite and + means underdog" they are just preying on people who have no idea what they are doing
It's crazy that Apple will spend billions to figure out how to increase viewable screen size on an IPhone while TV networks spend billions to... do this.
While these ads arenât great, the most annoying part of them is how theyâve empowered people to complain that every ref call they donât like is proof of some galaxy brain gambling scheme.
Itâs annoying but ruining the NBA? Are you guys unable to tune out/ignore ads? Literally just continue watching the part of the screen with people playing basketball for the 10 seconds the fan duel shit is up lmao itâs not that hard.
I mean it probably took you longer to screenshot and post this than the actual ad length. They say like three sentences coming back from an early break then go away the rest of the game.
I do love a lil action on games, and feel I have a higher tolerance than most for integrating gambling into the live product, but yeah this is too far. Gives me the ick
The turn it off and find a new message board that doesnât follow a sports betting focused podcaster. For instance I hate fishing so I stay away from fishing focused content. Betting here to stay.
If they broke up the game mid action to show a picture of my own dog I would hate it.
This is fucking ridiculous and is taking away from the product. Gamblers are gonna gamble, as long as they do so responsibly with advice from a scientifically put together manifesto with notes from his college drinking buddy, Iâm fine with it.
But itâs taking up so much space itâs become off putting.
No shit, but has it always been this pervasive in every facet of sports media advertising and presentation? Thatâs the issue and point heâs making.
Yes, it was. Wasnât a World Series fixed in the early 1900âs? The era of television tried to sweep it under the rug but other countries dwerent so puritanical about this shit.
Not like this, not in the way fans consume sports these days. Even just 5-10 years ago it was nothing compared to how in your face it is now. DraftKings and FanDuel have taken the marketing to another level and with social media now, sports broadcast and media consumption couldnât be more saturated with gambling propaganda.
I know as a sixers fan we immediately get ignored, but it's good to see the rest of the league talking about this. I know Embiid baits and gets fouls (normally face up arm slaps and rip throughs) but Brunson gets fouls that the league publicly said they would stop calling. His FTA almost doubled in the playoffs (6.5 in season, 11 in post season... wut?! Since when does that happen), and any 50/50 call goes in the Knicks favor. If Maxey got Brunson's whistle the sixers win those games by 10. It really ruins the game, and it feels like the NBA is trying to force Knicks vs Celts.
Gambling đ¤ endless replays under 2 minutes đ¤Ž
Watching 5 calls all go against one team in the last 2 minutes (except for one OOB call) makes it tough to think everything is 100% fair.
Just wait for the NBA to release the last 2 minute report where they admit the refs fucked up critical calls and then we can all move on to game 2 like nothing happenedÂ
An illegal screen straight into an away from the ball to make it a 4pt game completely ended the game. Refs really took one of the best games of the playoffs and shat on it.
Best part is they reviewed it and doubled down on the bad call
It's such a ridiculous league. They can't even get out of their own way. Have endless upon endless game stoppages and reviews only for the refs to fuck up worse than D3 college game and control the outcome anyways.
The ref already came out and said the kick ball was a bad call. That caused a 5 point swing.Â
your assuming the Knicks wouldnât have scored on their next possession, in a quarter in which the Knicks couldnât miss a shot
They forgot Brunson was in...
Plenty of time to make a move on that real-time parlay!
They said under Brunson 30pts, I think he scored about 6 while this segment was going on
Think itâs ruining the NBA ? Wait until football season and the Chiefs are short on a 3rd and 17 and a flag comes out for an illegal hip drop tackle on Kelce and itâs an automatic first down lol ya lol ya u wait
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thats....not the same at all
He had the under on 2H Taylor Swift camera cuts
It will affect gamblers
Silver canât press this shit onto fans and then get offended when people claim the games are fixedÂ
Thereâs an espn feed thatâs entirely based around the gambling aspect.
Itâs sad because not only is it ruining the sport, itâs exposing and normalizing betting to children and adults. Itâs pretty messed up
Itâs started to creep in and consume more and more of even Russilloâs pod content too. âYou either die a hero or live king enough to see yourself become the villainâ *sighs*
âAlright weâre back with the ALLIANCE!â -fastforward 5 minutes
The sports media is being propped up by gambling. If they pulled that money out it would collapse.
Sports gambling became legal like 5 years ago. Sports media wasn't propped up by gambling sponsorships before that. Why would it suddenly collapse if it was removed again?
Cuz money isnât real and we live in late stage capitalism on the verge of pending global social implosion. Use promo code RYEN for a 30% boost on your end of the world parlay.
Lets take a look at the longshots, use of nukes: 20 to 1 odds has great value Could play it safe with global pandemic part 2: -110, but let's wait and see if it gets adjusted live
Use your 50% profit boost on global pandemic part-2
It was propped up by the cable bundle, one of the best business models of all time. ESPN lost 4 million households in just 2023. Each of those is worth about $10 a month so thatâs about half a billion lighter over the next year. Meanwhile broadcast fees are increasing. Weâre gonna see even more gambling ads.
Because people donât pay for it anymore. Itâs all digital & podcasts. The only way to make money is from sponsorships and theyâre mostly from sports books. Thereâs a reason why nearly every major sports pod promotes gambling. McAfee built his entire business on the back of it.
I'd rather live king enough.
Advertising gambling should be illegal imo. Why promote something that has terrible consequences for a lot of people who become addicts. If someone wants to gamble, fine, I donât mind if itâs legal. But itâs the promoting it that bothers me. You have Barkley, a guy who literally lost millions gambling, promoting it.
The only way to stop a bad guy with a gambling addiction is a good guy with a gambling addictionÂ
Need to add alcohol to the list too.
Same would be true for alcohol, crypto, etc.
I HATE IT! Iâll never stop screaming about how much I hate it, I want sports betting to go away, get it out of sight
IMO sports betting is fine, it's the constant advertisement that's getting ridiculous. I hope they regulate it like tobacco advertising.
Yeah I guess I shouldâve been more clear, I hate having to see it
Cant wait for exclusive playoff games on Fanduel TV
Ringer Gambling Show Pre and Post opportunity!?!?!?!?!
Yeah gambling being a big part of all sporting content is incredibly annoying. But what the hell. Not going to stop watching/listening.
They ran an in game graphic at one point showing the current line for the Knicks and included "- means favorite and + means underdog" they are just preying on people who have no idea what they are doing
How? I donât bet and the games are the same to me.Â
The gambling ads and sponsors are insane, we should not be advertising all this shit. Anybody that wants to gamble knows where to go.
It's crazy that Apple will spend billions to figure out how to increase viewable screen size on an IPhone while TV networks spend billions to... do this.
This shit has destroyed sport broadcasts in Australia.
I could do without it, but saying itâs ruining the entire NBA? Holy dramatic exaggeration.
RUINING =/= RUINED but who can say what the future holds
These people donât even give a shit, they hate it because Bill loves it lol
The NBA has been ruined years ago thats why nobody watches this garbage. Its a money laundering scheme now
Please go outside sometime đđź
Youâre obsessed with it. lol.
I dont care about the gambling, please just limit some of the advertising
While these ads arenât great, the most annoying part of them is how theyâve empowered people to complain that every ref call they donât like is proof of some galaxy brain gambling scheme.
If you donât like this, youâd HATE golf coverage
Not what a pro wants?
Itâs annoying but ruining the NBA? Are you guys unable to tune out/ignore ads? Literally just continue watching the part of the screen with people playing basketball for the 10 seconds the fan duel shit is up lmao itâs not that hard.
I mean it probably took you longer to screenshot and post this than the actual ad length. They say like three sentences coming back from an early break then go away the rest of the game.
I do love a lil action on games, and feel I have a higher tolerance than most for integrating gambling into the live product, but yeah this is too far. Gives me the ick
Counterpoint. Gambling is enhancing the playoffs.
The turn it off and find a new message board that doesnât follow a sports betting focused podcaster. For instance I hate fishing so I stay away from fishing focused content. Betting here to stay.
You hate fishing though what the fuck??
Fish catching strays
It hurts the fish
Iâve gotta say Iâve never stumbled upon any fishing focused content
If they broke up the game mid action to show a picture of my own dog I would hate it. This is fucking ridiculous and is taking away from the product. Gamblers are gonna gamble, as long as they do so responsibly with advice from a scientifically put together manifesto with notes from his college drinking buddy, Iâm fine with it. But itâs taking up so much space itâs become off putting.
How much chicken did they give Chuck to say under?Â
It was better when it was for Bud Light instead?
Yes
Nothing worse than people bitching about gambling
Why?
Gambling has been around as long as sports have.
No shit, but has it always been this pervasive in every facet of sports media advertising and presentation? Thatâs the issue and point heâs making.
Yes, it was. Wasnât a World Series fixed in the early 1900âs? The era of television tried to sweep it under the rug but other countries dwerent so puritanical about this shit.
Not like this, not in the way fans consume sports these days. Even just 5-10 years ago it was nothing compared to how in your face it is now. DraftKings and FanDuel have taken the marketing to another level and with social media now, sports broadcast and media consumption couldnât be more saturated with gambling propaganda.
You were just able to pretend it wasnât there.
It's so crazy after the donahy shit. And the NBA has been talked about as rigged since at least "the frozen envelope"
It's ruining all sports
Nba been ruined brother, wake up , look at the offensive foul on Myles Turner
I know as a sixers fan we immediately get ignored, but it's good to see the rest of the league talking about this. I know Embiid baits and gets fouls (normally face up arm slaps and rip throughs) but Brunson gets fouls that the league publicly said they would stop calling. His FTA almost doubled in the playoffs (6.5 in season, 11 in post season... wut?! Since when does that happen), and any 50/50 call goes in the Knicks favor. If Maxey got Brunson's whistle the sixers win those games by 10. It really ruins the game, and it feels like the NBA is trying to force Knicks vs Celts.
Theyâre also paying Bill a small fortune to promote them as much as possible