Danny Green
Appearances
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The case against legal sports betting
And if you're the one out of the 10 that doesn't get that one and a half threes or two and a half threes for them, they're going to cuss you out. And, you know, because they were this short of turning $5 into $25,000. You know what I'm saying? So that's ultimately what a parlay is.
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The case against legal sports betting
A hundred percent. Like, if you score at the end of the game, you might mess up the spread. You turn the ball over or whatever it is. Or if you lose a game that you were favored in, we are more aware of it and it's brought to our attention. Do we care? No.
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The case against legal sports betting
No. It's a risk. It's called a gamble for a reason. If you want to risk your house or your life or your life savings on something, obviously our job is to play basketball. It's a physical, performing type of game. And as much as we want to play well, we can't control every night that we're going to play great. It's a very unpredictable—and most sports are very unpredictable—
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The case against legal sports betting
in terms of who's going to win the outcome, who's going to get hurt, who's not, or how well you're going to play, how well you're going to feel when you're in that, or how the coach is going to play you, or how the team's going to guard you. A lot of those things are out of your control. We go out every night trying to do our best. Of course, we try to win. Nobody tries to perform terrible.
Today, Explained
The case against legal sports betting
unless you're betting the unders on yourself and you're trying to win some money. Which is illegal, apparently. Yes, very illegal. So none of us are going out there trying to get the unders or trying to play bad. We want to win. We want to play well. Ultimately, because us playing well gets us the contract we want.
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The case against legal sports betting
He's a career 40-plus percent. We get more money. We get more looks. We get to stay in this profession longer. We get a chance to do what we love and play more minutes. So nobody wants to play bad. Nobody wants to do under what they're expected.
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The case against legal sports betting
Gambling and sports betting has completely taken the purity away and the fun away from the game at times. I'm going to just be honest with y'all, so...
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The case against legal sports betting
I could imagine on that level, I mean, they're superstars, so I'm sure it's a, you know, I was a role player, and I got it. So I can imagine on superstar level how much DMs, I mean, it's give and take. Advantage is advantage. I'm sure they get a lot of opportunities for sponsorships, money, and people will want to have access to them that they would love to meet or they look up to or, you know.
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The case against legal sports betting
who I hang out with or kick it with or do business with. And the flip side of it is people flooding your DMs with BS too. So it's a give and take. It's a gift and a curse on both sides of it.
Today, Explained
The case against legal sports betting
Yeah. I mean, sometimes it's cool. Not that you're going to get a cut, but it's like, oh, that's cool, man. I'm glad I did. I used to bet on you all the time. And some people are like, I lost a lot of money too, man. Trust me. If I played better, I probably would have made more money. And it's like, but when you make the money, you ain't going to give me the money, so why?
Today, Explained
The case against legal sports betting
There was one time Floyd won big money. We beat the Lakers. He gambled on us beating them. I was in San Antonio. Hit a big shot. Undefeated boxer, Floyd Mayweather. Yeah. And people are like, oh, he ain't send you a cut. No, absolutely not. Why would he? It's his money. He risked it, but no. He sent me a little money team back, like gift, small thing. We connected. It was cool, good people, but...
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The case against legal sports betting
I ain't going to see the money. So as great as it feels, it's not like I'm going to really share that with you. It's like, oh, that's cool. But I really don't care. But I'm happy for you. I'm happy you won money on my behalf.
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The case against legal sports betting
I mean, they had to make an example of something so rightfully so. I mean, like, what do we do? Like, come on, man. Like I said, if you're going to better yourself, at least bet the overs and try to make it happen. But to bet the unders and then... Hurt your own career, be sick or get hurt mid-game and call out or purposely not take shots or try to miss shots. That's just something I can't fathom.
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The case against legal sports betting
I just don't understand it. In the realm of being a basketball player and a competitor, I just can't understand why you would ever set yourself up for failure on both sides.
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The case against legal sports betting
You're risking getting kicked out and you're risking not getting a contract or being picked up by another NBA team by playing bad and being hurled. So like, it's a double negative, a double L in my eyes. I was like, man, bad way to go out, but you know.
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The case against legal sports betting
And he got punished, rightfully so, you know, within good reason, and they had to make an example of somebody so that nobody else comes along and tries to do it again.
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The case against legal sports betting
Cat's out. It's never going back. Too much money involved. It's always everything in business is money, right? When money's involved and this is bringing so much money into the world, into the sports world, In every industry, I honestly think it'll go the other way where they'll start saying, we won't allow guys to bet on their respective sports.
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The case against legal sports betting
But all right, listen, you can't bet on your own sport. But I'm sure guys are going to be betting on other sports openly at some point. NBA players bet on football, football, NBA, MLB, hockey, whatever it is. But once it's open, once it's hard to go backwards, you know, once you go, you can be strict early and set the rules. But once you lighten up, you can't go back. You know what I'm saying?
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The case against legal sports betting
Like, all right, we're going to go back to this. It's like trying to tell NBA players, we're going to insist on the drug rule again, you know, the marijuana drug rule again. And I'm like, what the hell? You know, so I just don't see it happening. Anything's possible.
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The case against legal sports betting
His name is Wynn. Wynn? Yeah. Like W-I-N? Yes. Like I win, you lose. So yeah, he's part of the brand. It's us on brand. And he was a celebration himself because we weren't sure if we were able to have... Him naturally. And he did happen naturally. So he was a win.
Today, Explained
The case against legal sports betting
Very illegal. Everything was illegal. There was no NIL.
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The case against legal sports betting
So you messing up someone's parlay or messing up someone's gambling bet on you is that they took you for usually over a certain amount of points, rebounds, or assists, or all the above together. And it's like, all right, sometimes a parlay, maybe Boston is going to win by plus six and a half, and then so-and-so is going to lose by minus four and a half.
Today, Explained
The case against legal sports betting
And then this player is going to get over 10 rebounds. This player is going to get over six assists. This person is going to get over two and a half three-pointers made. That's usually, I'm one of those guys, at least one and a half three-pointers made. And if you win, or if you get hit on all these... people that you gamble on risk is a big payout. And they might get nine out of the 10.