ESPN covers story on gambling with ad for gambling at the bottom of screen.

Gambling is ruining a lot of young males. Once they get a hit of the gambling dopamine rush, it's over for many.

Can't believe they allowed this to happen. I see it in my nephews. That's all they talk about and when they lose they ask their parents to cover them until the next paycheck.

Knew a man that worked civil service that couldn't control his gambling. He was in his 50's and had to have another man control his money for him.

They will kick you out of the service for financial irresponsibility if you don't pay your bills. Saw that happen more than once.

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Can't believe they allowed this to happen.

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Adults should be able to wager money if they please. However, perhaps there should be some regulation in advertising. Look at cigarettes. They are still legal, but the use of cigarettes has dropped very low. When we were growing up, there were marketing campaigns everywhere about the dangers of smoking. Now, my young daughters start asking questions when they see a cigarette out in public since it is so rare.

I understand there is so much money in legal gambling, but, maybe the solution is to allow us the freedom to partake while moving back to the shadows of society.

Have Sirius so this morning rotating around between Unsportsmanlike on espn, Get up on another espn, DA show and couple others

All of them talked about the NBA case
All of them within 5 minutes were doing reads for gambling sites

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The average people you hang around with must be pretty fricked up then. Easy access to gambling, booze, and porn has been around for a while and people aren’t destroying themselves left and right.

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People with a lack of accountability and addictive personalities are going to find a way to feed their vices (and somehow blame it on someone else). We once banned alcohol in this country...nothing changed except the mafia became more powerful. Drugs have long been illegal. People still find a way to do them.

If you think players being "on the take" is some new phenomenon just because the availability and ease of sports betting is greater than ever before, then you are woefully naive. Basketball point shaving has been going on for, AT LEAST, 40-50 years...and that's only the few cases you know about (BC basketball, Headache Smith at ASU, Hot Rod Williams at Tulane, etc). The ONLY thing that's changed is the frequency the players are getting caught now has increase with greater technology to track the betting in real time and greater regulation.

If you can't avoid a drink, or withhold from betting on a ball game, that is a YOU problem. It's not Jack Daniel's or Draft King's job to hold you accountable.

"Welcome back to Sportscenter, presented by ESPN Bet. We come to you live from the FanDuel studio in New York for a special 30 For 30 sponsored by Draftkings. For more on the NBA gambling scandal, we now go to our Caesar's Sportsbook NBA Insider Shams Carania, who is live from the Fanatics Sportsbook campus in Jacksonville. Shams, how could this happen?"

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Know a guy who committed suicide, turns out he was 100s of thousands in debt from gambling. Had a wife and two kids.

I said it from the start, on-line gambling is going to ruin many lives.

As soon as gambling was promoted in sports it opened up pandoras box. You want to put a little money on a game to make it interesting cool, but people are putting millions down and influencing these players / refs.