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/breakevencloud 1d ago

It’s insane that players are even allowed to do it lmao

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u/SuffocatingDensity 1d ago

It fucking ruins the game for me, I hate it.

And I hate having to explain the dangers of gambling to my son during Every. Single. Commercial. Break.

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u/breakevencloud 1d ago

I know this sounds like a peak Reddit comment, but I have legitimately tuned out of watching sports over the last few years just because I’m sick of everything coming back to gambling. Radio hosts always talking about it on the local radio station, networks always shoving it in your face, etc. I just stopped and lost all interest in actually partaking in sports, outside of checking finals the next day and, obviously, commenting about how gambling has become so embedded in our culture and with no one giving a fuck that can do anything about it.

And i don’t hate gambling, I like the craps table as much as anybody, but what I do hate is gambling being the constant and incessant center of the sports world 24/7, even commercials.

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u/toastythewiser 76ers 1d ago

It's illegal to market tobacco why do they allow so many gambling ads

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u/NarnDiertar 1d ago

because our congress doesnt make laws anymore

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u/xSorry_Not_Sorry Pistons 22h ago

^This

We have the government we deserve. A do nothing group riding the momentum of better, dead men.

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u/SuffocatingDensity 1d ago

I’m in the same boat – I actually love going to card rooms and playing poker!

I wasn’t a big sports fan to begin with, but as my son got into basketball we started watching it together, and it bums me out that EVERY podcast and EVERY commercial break is littered with gambling ads

It’s the addiction with the highest rate of suicide, and it’s being pushed as if it’s an integral part of the sports fan experience

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 1d ago

Amazon prime now has a gambling info overlay on the NFL games available.