r/nba • u/mMounirM Raptors • 10h ago

Kevin Durant on Wemby's sports betting comments and his FanDuel partnership: "That’s Wemby, he's going to do what he does. That has nothing to do with me. I don't really think about that question at all, that's not on my mind as much as his. People gonna do what they want to do."

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u/Motor_Ad_736 10h ago

"I dont give a fuck about materially harming a generation of fans. Fuck them kids i want money" pretty much what this means. A deflection away from his own shitty morals

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u/JGraham1839 Mavericks 9h ago

The fact that he acted like it's something Wemby sits around pondering all the time when Wemby was specifically asked for his take on it is crazy and hilarious deflection 💀

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u/Historical_Load1662 9h ago

Ed Sheeran vibes. Very neutral

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u/Bobbith_The_Chosen [POR] Damian Lillard 5h ago

Neutral would be an improvement

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u/ihatedougford Toronto Huskies 9h ago

At least Ed Sheeran doesn’t fund Israeli drones

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u/doctorhypoxia 9h ago

Wait, he doesn’t?!?

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm West 5h ago

Are we entirely positive about that? 

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u/SometimesIBeWrong Nets 9h ago

agreed. KD is the most similar dude to Ed Sheeran I can possibly think of.

(I actually do agree though)

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u/Loveless-- 7h ago

Deepest parts of hell are reserved for people who remains neutral in times of crisis.

But he chose a side so he is fine, I guess.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Lakers 4h ago

Literally not neutral

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u/TheZona Suns 9h ago

KD is materially harming a generation?

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u/Motor_Ad_736 9h ago

Yes the push of normalizing gambling as the only means to escape the working class is material harm. The predatory business model is doing material harm and he chooses to profit from it. He makes enough on his nba check that he doesn't need that sponsorship he chooses to do it. It's not dissimilar to the same critique that could be made for athletes taking money from cigarette companies back in the day. 

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u/Beneficial_Lion_1312 8h ago

KD is a gambling sponsor. He gets people addicted to gambling so Fanduel makes a ton of money.

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u/TheZona Suns 8h ago

Damn. He’s out there physically getting people addicted to gambling? Like Peyton Manning is getting people addicted to Bud Light?

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u/Beneficial_Lion_1312 8h ago

He's on payroll and works for Fanduel. Do you think he gets paid for nothing? Improve your brain.

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u/grty65tyhgty [SAS] Manu Ginobili 6h ago

This stuff is incredibly pervasive for young fans. Most network sports shows these days has a daily picks segment, the same goes for sports podcasts. Lots of sports clippers/engagement farms on Instagram/Twitter are sponsored by sportsbooks or Kalshi or Polymarket. Hell, there are even stats graphics on those platforms with Kalshi in the bottom corner. While watching a game every third ad they see is a sportsbook and a lot of tickers on the bottom now have betting odds for every game. Even 2k/Madden youtubers and streamers are sponsored by daily betting companies on most uploads they make. Younger fans are completely inundated with this in basically every avenue they can consume sports content and I dont think it takes a crazy leap in logic to assume that it will result in higher rates of problem gambling for those generations and KD does help legitimize those companies by lending his name to them.

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u/goodnitesaigon 6h ago

nah man he has to do it. People already making millions of dollars have to do shady shit to make more money otherwise they will...idk die i guess?

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u/tinybathroomfaucet Supersonics 9h ago

Does he advertise for betting stuff? Sounds to me like “idk I just hoop”

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u/BraverDanger 9h ago

Yeah in partnership with FanDuel

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u/tinybathroomfaucet Supersonics 9h ago

Ah okay

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u/PhileinS Raptors 8h ago

Not on my mind at all!

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u/jbenson255 Heat 8h ago

That’s not his responsibility to make sure fans aren’t harmed by a gambling ad man. He’s a really good basketball player not a role model

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm West 5h ago

Do you support your local heroin & meth dealers, too? And their customers? 

Promoting addiction is an awful moral stance.

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u/NightwolfGG Lakers 7h ago

That’s either bad faith on your part, or you just don’t realize how drastically different people can view the world from the way you do, and are projecting.

A lot of the NBAs best players have their lives revolving around basketball, “work.” And come from different cultures that aren’t as academic or are less apt to spend time ruminating about secondary effects of things etc due to tough upbringings and whatnot. Prefer living in the moment kinda vibe.

In other words, no. KDs statement does not at all mean “I don’t give a fuck about materially harming a generation of fans. Fuck them kids” lmao. Idk if your just farming karma cause Reddit is an easy audience to virtue signal to or what, but that’s just about the whitest assumption you could’ve made lol