Sports Betting, UFC Wages, Summer League + Ben Fowlkes

Takeline

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Society & Culture, Sports, Basketball

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week on Takeline, Jason and Renee discuss how the embrace of betting by pro leagues will affect the sports industry. Later in the show, Renee talks about her experience at Summer League. Plus, Ben Fowlkes of The Athletic joins to talk about Cheyanne Buys viral press conference and the controversy around how the UFC pays its fighters. Don’t forget to smash the subscribe button at http://youtube.com/takelineshow for exclusive video clips and to watch ALL CAPS NBA. New episodes every Friday! Take Crooked's listener survey: crooked.com/survey For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/takeline.

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0:00.0	We could all assume that everyone will do the morally correct thing to do, you know
0:06.9	We could always assume that but we also know that if an MLB they will bang on some trash cans
0:13.3	Yeah, try to get the slightest advantage
0:15.5	Yeah, you mean to tell me that when it comes to betting and all this money that's gonna be flying around
0:21.2	This is a billion a multi-billion dollar business. I just think there's a lot of conflicts of interest here
0:27.7	That's all I'm gonna say there's a lot going on people are gonna push it because that's the nature of competition
0:32.8	How far will they take it? That's the nature of it. You you want to see how far you can push it to win whatever you're trying to win and that's the danger of this
0:40.2	We're named just last week is reported by Bill King of the sports business journal that the NFL has decided to allow six sport book commercials per game per game
0:59.1	On their game broadcasts also some breaking news that came out today
1:04.1	Jay Z and Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Michael Rubin are part of a group applying for an online
1:10.2	Sports betting license in New York and a plan to form a
1:14.8	Fanatics sports book we know the sentiment on betting has drastically changed over the last few years and leagues are always looking for new revenue streams
1:23.5	From a sports perspective though as betting becomes more widespread
1:27.4	What effect does this have just on the players on the coaches on anybody because this is
1:34.2	We were talking about this in the pre-pro. It was not that long ago. I want to say like eight
1:39.2	Ten years ago where you didn't talk about it like in in in professional sports circles
1:45.2	It was taboo to talk about gambling in any kind of way and now it's just here
1:50.3	It's just here. It's in your face. It is part of it is part of the economic model. It's here
1:56.4	Well, Jason. How much will it change it? See, this is the thing. It's kind of like
2:01.5	Name image and likeness is here now for athletes, right in college
2:05.3	But we know that athletes was making money before name image and likeness some of them have gotten caught
2:10.0	It's been publicized so we know that things were happening before people allowed it to be legal
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