Canis Hoopus · Mar 28, 2024
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Last week, we ended with a bit of a soliloquy about the joys of fandom, the childhood innocence of the insanity of March Madness, and the leak in the balloon that is betting. This week, we have Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter likely ending his own NBA career by betting unders on his own player props. While readers here likely don’t have NBA careers to ruin, this is my way of saying the obvious:
The way sports betting is being integrated with consumption of sports products, from coverage to talk shows to scoreboards, is going to give us a generation of athletes that grew up betting and can’t get away with it.