r/nba • u/GGTae Spurs • 1h 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/los33ramos Lakers 1h ago

When our American players going to have some morals and do the same? Lame ass muthafuckas.

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u/Marco2169 Raptors 1h ago

He’s unique even in Europe. Soccer ads and gambling have been crippling people for decades and these companies have their adverts everywhere

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u/DexterGooglehead Nuggets 55m ago

i honestly think that europe is worse with sports gambling than us

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u/clewbays 51m ago

Parts of Europe definitely are. The advertising would not be the same though just due to cultural differences and increased regulation since it was legal for longer.

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u/luca3791 38m ago

It’s a lot more trivialised in the US I feel. Like having social media accounts from massive TV networks specifically dedicated to gambling. You’d never see that in here here in Denmark, and I have a very difficult time imagining any other European country having something similar.

That’s of course not to say we don’t have issues with gambling at all, just that it seems much more “mainstream” in the US

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u/enigmatic_dankness 1h ago

They'll get some as soon as someone pays them $10m to say so

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u/Forsaken-Swim-3055 Raptors 1h ago

A few years ago Kyrie spoke out about how gambling has impacted the sport and the toxicity it's created among basketball fans.

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u/420NICOHARRISON 1h ago

Lmao anyone complaining about gambling commercials would 100% do it as well if a company offered them a fuck ton of money. Fuck them kids I’d sleep like a baby if I could be In a gambling ad

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u/KidAardvark24 [DEN] Nikola Jokic 55m ago

That new Polymarket commercial with Eli Manning and Spike Lee… and Alexandria Daddario for some reason is egregious.

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u/MaxStunning_Eternal 22m ago

Oh...brother knew this was going to devolve into euro vs yank.

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u/cuauhtemochaccino 1h ago

It's just another symptom of the cultural divide between Europe and USA. Individualism Vs Socialism.

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u/jimmyrich 1h ago

Behead the Draftking!

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u/clewbays 53m ago

That’s just not the case with gambling. There’d be a lot of European countries where it’s more popular than the US. It was also never illegal in the first place in most countries.