J. Kyle Mann

Like we're all involved at this point.

Players having active relationships with betting markets is very, very bad.

And prediction markets in particular, extremely bad.

So the good version of events is that it was normal superstar whispering behind the scenes that he wants to go play for the Knicks and then changing his mind and then changing his mind and then changing his mind and then changing his mind.

That's the good version.

The bad version is actively perpetrating a fraud over months, if not years, while working in collusion with the predictive betting market.

I sure hope it's not that one because that seems so much worse than even like whatever shit Terry Rozier was doing.

Well, especially if it's not real, not for smoke and mirrors negotiations in trade related reasons where things get leaked into the media, things get put out there all the time so that teams can negotiate their markets and kind of manipulate who is available and what they would get in return.

All that stuff is just like part of the marketplace baked into it.

This is something else entirely and something so much more gross.

And it's like, I can't imagine the Czech is even that good to dip your toe in this deep.

It really is just kind of like an unforgivable thing, to be honest with you, what Giannis is engaged in.

Not that he runs the company, but it's like, you have to be smarter than this.

You have to care about the sport and the league a little more than that.

That roulette does suck.

There's really no way around it.

Again, I think we have a sense of what the solution is.

It's playing fewer games.

We already talked about why that's probably not going to happen.

And yet, it just gets worse and worse, and the repercussions continue to spill over.