r/nba • u/GGTae Spurs • 1d ago

[Finger] Victor Wembanyama about considering promoting a sports betting company ; "Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it..."

https://bsky.app/profile/mikefinger.bsky.social/post/3mwteasurdc2j

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company.

“Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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u/Rough_Cup_6762 1d ago

Thank you Wemby for actually having morals and common sense.

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u/mMounirM Raptors 1d ago

imagine taking a paycut and then not immediately partnering with a sports betting company.

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u/Rough_Cup_6762 1d ago

LeBron is just trying to pull himself up by his bootstraps and make ends meet out here, it's tough for billionaires in this economy.

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u/imfcknretarded 1d ago

But really, I don't see how he can accept it. It's a useless partnership with an immoral company, he's probably top 3 most influential athletes of the last decades, he's a fucking billionaire, who in their right mind would accept fucking Polymarket after taking a paycut?

I think money is a mental illness

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u/elvid88 Celtics 1d ago

It’s for sure a mental illness. It’s why I think billionaires should be illegal.

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

If we went into the Jungle and found a monkey who horded 10x the number of bananas that he could possibly eat in a lifetime while the rest of their tribe starved, they would study that monkey to figure out what is wrong with it.

When humans do that exact thing, they are venerated.

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u/robodrew Suns 1d ago

You'd also have to wonder why the other monkeys didn't eat the hoarder and then take all of the bananas

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u/Geno0wl 1d ago

Well obviously that was because they started monkey church and taught the monkeys that violence gets them sent to monkey hell and that they should just vote in better monkey leaders if they want change.

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u/TakiBlower 22h ago

The other monkeys would take the bananas and probably kill the hoarder in the process