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Pablo Torre

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

But hold on.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Because I love that this conversation keeps on going back to tanking, which I think is an under-discussed aspect of the entire conflict of principles involved.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

You're saying over and over again that if you cannot distinguish between

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Behavior that would be incentivized.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Yeah, why you're... By betting or by getting a draft pick.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Like Victor Wimbanyama, you're kind of f***ed from a first principles perspective.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

And so you got to sort of change the incentives with draft picks and tanking.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

That's actually what you would... And that's what I would focus on if I cared about the... If they're going to say, Bob, please help us.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

You would say, it's time to do what?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

It's time to remove the draft lottery as a mechanism.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Mike Zarin, Celtics.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

Yeah, Mike Zarin's wheel thing is not bad.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

I'm personally in favor of free agency for all incoming rookies.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

And I'm in favor of a zillion mini television shows in which they all get to make their individual decisions.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

I want rose ceremonies.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

I want the bachelor for, I want Victor Weminyama of 2027 to have his own rose ceremony.

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

On some level, though, what we are reckoning with is the inability to solve for people being f***ing idiots.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

By the way, I'm open to all of these suggestions of what you can and can't do such that the access...

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"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

to addictive substances is disclosed as a matter of risk and then limited as a matter of law.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
"Your League Is So Cooked": The Best Bettor in NBA History on How to Solve a Gambling Crisis

That's right.