Nick Wilson 🏴

At least Toronto will always have those Raptors

Baseball is crazy

There are real people in our universe who said "I can't wait for Dumas to silence the doubters. People only hate and bet against him cause they're liberal PC snowflake cucks. I'm throwing down my money on SD"

Kinda want to know how that poster feels right now

The whole "make it legal and regulate/tax it" argument really falls apart when it's actually just a single legal provider who can basically set all their own rules and self regulate. Normal capitalism is bad enough before you introduce state affiliate monopoly on top

I know this isn't actually news to anyone who cares, but goddamn the vIg on these retail books is insane. Not sure what it's like in states that don't have a single book legal monopoly but sites like draftkings and FanDuel are absolutely hosing everyone who lives in, like, half the country

Never give in to the terrorists who demand a specific non-phonetic pronunciation of things that exist solely in writing

I don't care what the guy who invented the dot gif file format says. He wrote it the wrong way if he wants it to be pronounced stupid

People use the "if elections don't matter then why do Republicans try to rig them?" as if it's a gotcha against anti-electoralists

The point anti-electoralists keep making is that elections are a rigged game and if your only political plan relies on winning a rigged game then you're a fucking idiot

I don't doubt they could turn it around and look really really good in April or whatever, but this is looking a lot like the last two seasons of nearly achieving full potential, and then flaming out in the playoffs due to being badly coached and sloppy

Timberwolves look just bad right now. A team dramatically worse than the sum of its parts

Totally incoherent instructions from both corners

Tbf it's really hard to not foul when standing still holding your arms straight up in the air is a foul

If I was at all involved in NBA officiating I would be absolutely furious at how shockingly easy it is to scam NBA refs. I would also wonder why it seems to be so much easier to scam refs as a white guy from LA

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Pictured: Adam Silver investigating why his league has a credibility problem

I can't wait for someone to accidentally ask, "you know, if multi-millionaire players and coaches are willing to get involved in this, should we be concerned about the refs who make a tiny fraction of..." and then they get black bagged by Adam Silver live on air

I was going to say "now Photoshop it to be Carson Wentz" but then I realized that image might drive people to actual self harm

Yeah, any sort of black/grey market has an equivalent high society version that we just accept as totally normal and legit. Gamble on sports? That's irresponsible and dangerous to society. Gamble on credit default swaps with billions of other people's 401k dollars? Classy, with a golden parachute

I mean, insider trading is technically a crime that would get the FBI involved. The fact that we taking sports gambling crimes more seriously than insider trading from Congress people is just cause sports gamblers aren't in charge of the government

It's like insider trading on the stock market. using inside info not publicly available to make a sports betting is treated the same as insider trading on company info if you're like on the board of directors or some shit

Oh, the NBA is fuuuuuuucked fucked

I have never felt so personally attacked and validated at the same time

internet crashes under the sheer weight of all 4 billion men on earth posting ”same” “same brother“ “hell yeah” “he’s me for real”

Yeah, this is one of those "you broke the street rules so you should get street justice" kinda situations for me. Scamming people at your home game should get you blackballed from polite criminal society

Presumably a lot of people were brought in like, "hey, we have Chauncey Billups coming to our game and he's a total fish who will throw away his NBA money to you cause he sucks at poker" and then they got scammed with fucking x-rays and shit

Yeah, you have to work pretty damn hard to get the FBI involved in your poker games. Casinos in Vegas aren't even trying to take that action

But yes. If this stuff is true it's ASTOUNDINGLY stupid

Depending on the state you can get away with a lot of stuff under the "home game" umbrella. Don't take a rake, don't sell drinks, don't have a paid dealer. You can get away with a lot just saying "it's a friendly home game between friends"

Wolves did not deserve to win that game but I'll take it

There is exactly 0.7 seconds between Dante Divincenzo getting the ball into his hands and when I start to worry he's about to turn it over

I'm pretty proud of myself that when prominent progressive figures are revealed to have Nazi tattoos my first response is "who tf is that?"

What the actual hell was happening between picks 5-15 where you somehow ended up with Puka and CMC?