Jamal Khashoggi
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This is going across 11 states and a bunch of crime families.
Allegedly, there's something called the mob.
I don't think that really exists anymore.
I think that's an urban legend.
And these are two separate threads, but announced on the same day.
They both involve NBA players, but apparently this is two different cases.
So Chamath, what do you allegedly think of this?
I guess there's two different ways to go about this.
You have the fantasy sports becoming legal.
Everybody around these players just in that one case where are these people too dumb to understand that their $10 million contract to play in the NBA every year or $20 million contract is more important than your friends betting the under or over?
How dumb are they to not know that the people running a sportsbook would look for weird action?
Why is one player getting $200,000 on their over-under for rebounds and the other players are getting $20,000?
What are your thoughts here, Freiberg?
You can also take on the poker one.
There's two things that are very interesting about it is, number one, how they've simplified things to a way people can understand.
It's not like you have to understand, you know, it's 120, it's this, the point spread, it's just...
what's the chance that this thing happens?
80%, 20%, people could just place their money on it.
And then this ability to reconcile it at any time, I didn't realize how engaging that is.
I was watching the Oscars and I was watching boxing and I bet the underdog in this Netflix boxing thing that happened because I just thought,