Chris Murphy

That's a question that the coach and the coach's kid and nephew probably know.

So if the NBA and the NFL get in bed with these prediction markets, they are knowingly corrupting the sport.

I get it that they're just looking for a quick buck, but this one gets really gnarly pretty quickly.

Of course, I'd like them to testify because I think it's pretty clear upon questioning, you'd learn that they're just in this for the cash grab.

And, you know, these are very powerful people.

And so they probably do have a bit of a God complex.

They think that if they can get Polymarket or CalSheet in the room, they can convince them to ban bets on things that might be rigged.

I think they're naive.

I think these are companies that are more powerful and more capitalized than the leagues themselves.

And they're going to offer whatever bets make them money.

And it's ultimately just going to lead to more corruption opportunities inside these leagues, not less.

I tell it through, you know, an anecdote.

So it's my younger son that plays hockey.

And he, you know, plays in one of these, you know, very competitive and very expensive travel leagues.

Part of the reason he plays in that travel league is that the quality of rec-level hockey is...

in the East Coast has been gutted.

And so if you're a player that has any level of skill, you almost have to play in the travel leagues to be able to play with kids who are at your level.

But that's a $5,000 to $10,000 investment for many families.

And so it ends up excluding a lot of good hockey players from participating at the level that they should be playing at.

But it gets even worse.