[Charania] Game changer: The league’s new collective bargaining agreement will give players the ability to invest in NBA and WNBA teams, as well as promote and/or invest in sports betting and cannabis companies, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

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1. >…as well as **promote and/or invest in sports betting** and cannabis companies, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

   Uhhh… 🚩🚩🚩

2. Is THIS an April fools joke?

3. This will help LeOwner

4. players promoting gambling. can’t see how this will go well.

5. This better be an April fools joke or this league is fucked.

6. David Stern rolling in his grave rn

7. Investing in NBA teams?? While currently playing? Shocked they allowed this

8. And here’s the reason the players agreed to the other trash things in the CBA

9. Ehm what?

10. players going to be throwing games

11. What the fuck is this CBA??

12. Is promoting/investing in sports betting not a massive conflict of Interest?

13. The fix is in

14. Lmaooo please tell me this is a April Fool’s joke

15. Stars gonna start investing in teams and then just team up there and drive up the value of their shares

16. adam silvers nba

17. Certainly there’s no way this could backfire

18. sports gambling has gone too far

19. The sports betting is incredibly problematic

20. Investing in sports betting companies? Fuck off, man. Refs are already blatantly trying to skew games towards the spread. Players investing, which I know may not seem wild, has the potential to be fucking terrible. Dark money style shit. The conflicts of interest that are incoming are about to fuck this league up to crazy levels. This may be the worst CBA in American sports history. My fucking god. I thought Gary Bettman and the NHL was a joke, but the NBA makes them look competent. And yes I keep editing this comment because this is fucking bonkers, I keep having new things to say about it and I am unhinged.

21. can’t be serious.. how does betting have this much of a chokehold on the nba? from inappropriate commercials to commentators placing their “bets” to promote the sites to now this

    only money matters. fuck everything else right

22. Investing in WNBA teams and cannabis companies: Good

    Being able to invest in sports betting and NBA teams: Bad

    Unless this is only for retired players then it’s not a big deal.

23. Ok this has to be april fools right

24. Adam Silver is legitimately ruining the NBA. It’s time for him to go.

25. Players endorsing sports betting is an *extremely* odd look

26. I’m sure we’ll see plenty of the players who complain about fans heckling them about their bets be happy to accept the right bag if a gambling site throws it at them

    The industry makes far too much money to stop and nothing will be done about it as long as it can be argued that gambling is a relatively harmless vice compared to drugs and alcohol

27. When does the new CBA start? Also they need to get rid of Cj and Grant Williams they are absolutely horrific.

28. This is genuinely very bad and going to result in serious mistrust of players with conflicting interests in sports betting. I get sports betting is a huge money maker but idk

29. Calvin Ridley just got suspended for a whole year in the NFL for betting on games. Does Adam Silver think that NBA players partnering with sports books won’t have the same outcome?? This league is so fucking cooked LMAO

30. We are about to see the most fraudulent season ever next season

31. Investing in sports betting as active players? The fuck?

32. As if the NBA doesn’t already have enough issues with fans and even players thinking the games are rigged of influenced by gambling.

33. Investing in Draft Kings then going 5/17 in a crucial Game 5 is definitely gonna be interesting, lol.

34. The more I read about this CBA the less I like it.

35. christ the gambling been invasive asf

36. Our society is falling to a degenerate pile of trash where gambling and weed are marketed to kids through athletes lmao