Max Fortune
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If you want to compare game to game instead of game to series, Game 7 of the NBA Finals between the Thunder and Pacers drew 16.4 million viewers. WBC Final drew 10.7 million.
Ryan Glasspiegel@sportsrapport
Bigger than the average of the 2025 NBA Finals wow
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@MaxTFortune Haha u are correct. More skill, and the rules = less aggressive coverages.
Whole point of the post.
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D1 is last level where you can play truly suffocating defense. Teams like Houston epitomize this (among others).
‘One and done’ and suffocating/exotic defense are the 2 biggest reasons that March Madhess is the ‘best viewing experience’ in basketball.
In the NBA, the average fan confuses passive coverages with ‘lack of effort’ and ‘no defense’.
The reality is that aggressive coverages get punished the higher you go; there is no other option unless the rules change.
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@steeder10 That's almost entirely explained by less shooting skill in ncaa. Difference in ft% between ncaa and nba is the same as ppp 77/71 vs 1.15/1.05
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@MaxTFortune One game is irrelevant, total PPP is 1.15-1-2 In the nba vs 1.05 ish in the NCAA. Notable difference.
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@JamesWilli83381 Crowds are not wise. They are collective morons.
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I feel like I'm losing my mind with the Polymarket/Kalshi nonsense. Once more: The predictions are nothing more than a measure of a segment of elite vibes at a moment in time. They tell you nothing about reality. They tell you how some people feel about reality right now.
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@TrapMunna @Scamzel The OP wasn't about the teams it was about the markets the teams are in. Any team can contend for a ring in the NBA because it's a communist league.
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@MaxTFortune @Scamzel Okc just won a chip top team in the nba pistons top team in the east Cavs top 5 in the east bucks a contender and recent champ and SA have young stars .. what are you talking about
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Vegas is dying
I dunno why they’re so hell bent on sending an nba team there
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania
Just in: The NBA will hold a vote at the Board of Governors meetings March 24-25 to explore adding expansion teams exclusively in Las Vegas and Seattle, with the two franchises targeted for the 2028-29 season, sources tell ESPN. There is momentum for stakeholders to approve surveying what industry executives project will be bids in the $7-to-$10 billion range for each team.
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I need examples of a US city with at least three pro sports teams where the NHL team is top two in fandom in the city.
Boys here said Detroit, DC and Tampa. I think I’ll give them DC and Tampa, but contest Detroit.
Some guys said Minnesota, I think Twins are bigger than Wild.
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@fraudulentlaugh @Scamzel When does the current regime go until?
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@MaxTFortune @Scamzel vegas is more of a tourist location in comparison to the other cities you’ve named, with the current regime, less people want to visit the US, barely an local support and a crazy decline of global support. No one wants to travel
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@BoomerOUGooner @Scamzel The OP isn't about the teams it was about the health of the city. Okc is a certified shit hole.
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@MaxTFortune @Scamzel How’s it going in OKC? Seriously? I’d say pretty well.
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@statcenter @DavidTo30200800 The players on tanking teams don't try on defense so the games devolve into an all-star game style of play.
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@DavidTo30200800 Tell me how the quality of play is bad. This is just a cliche that keeps being spread with no evidence behind it.
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The "garbage teams" take has always been a useless argument against expansion.
There were 5 terrible teams in 86-87, including a 70-loss team. That didn't stop the NBA from expanding into 4 markets that have all turned into long-term successes for the league.
Jay King@ByJayKing
This might be an unpopular take, but the NBA has enough garbage teams already. Expansion is a bad idea.
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@kmedved I wanted to hate it when I started reading but it's actually a cool idea.
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This is the first tweet I can remember getting actual hatemail (DMs) for. Not just "your idea sucks", but truly mean stuff.
Kostya Medvedovsky@kmedved
Anti-tanking idea I’ve been kicking around for a while, and came up at Sloan this year: teams aren’t allowed to use their own draft picks. That’s it. If you still own your pick when the season starts, it moves to the end of the first round. Nothing else needed. Bad teams still have a valuable asset. They just have to trade it before the season begins. So hopeless teams (say Kings and Pacers) pair off and swap picks before the season. Both get value back. Neither has any reason to tank in-season. Or your can just trade your pick for players, future assets, etc. Anything you want. You just can’t use your own pick. Eliminates the incentive to lose without eliminating the mechanism that helps bad teams improve. Clean, elegant, easy to explain. Note it doesn’t prevent Hinkie-style tanking. Teams can still build terrible rosters on purpose. But it does prevent the Utah Jazz from this year, where you bench your starters in the 4th Q to chase ping pong balls. The latter is more pernicious and more detrimental imo, but I appreciate there is some disagreement on this.
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@mase123987 @Scamzel Sure. My original point was that the league obviously doesn't care about the quality of the city or else they wouldnt have recently moved teams to the worst places in the entire country.
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@MaxTFortune @Scamzel I think that argument is more so due to the NBA wanting to advertise specific players more than anything. NFL gets this right by (speaking generally) advertising the league as a whole and they don't care who is successful as long as people watch.
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@mase123987 @Scamzel No I guess not. It's just bad for the NBA when they are good because nobody watches them.
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@MaxTFortune @Scamzel Do you think San Antonio is small or dying?
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@Scamzel This isn't true. Look at the ratings for last year's finals.
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@MaxTFortune You may not but if a team has a star player, ppl will tune in.
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@Scamzel Only a few have strong local support and even when they are good, interest in the league goes way down because the rest of the country doesn't care about them.
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@MaxTFortune Those teams have very strong local support
I’m speculating here - Vegas residents are 90% laker fans if not more - it won’t be the same
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Fanatics Betting & Gaming announced Monday it has hired former Indiana Gaming Commission Executive Director Sara Tait as senior vice president and head of its legal department. Former head of legal Alex Smith was promoted to chief legal officer.
Tait worked for the Indiana Gaming Commission (IGC) for just over 10 years, the last six as the executive director.
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@expatanon I think there is an understanding between government and business that wide spread unemployment is bad for society and ultimately the businesses themselves.
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The real question here is: why in an allegedly cutthroat, hyper-capitalist economy has every large white-collar firm maintained a workforce 3x the size it actually needs to run its operations? Why would they stop now and not before?
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
What if AI doesn’t need to show an immediate ROI but instead is the plausible deniability companies use to RIF 50% of the workforce they already knew did nothing??
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig says it’s up to prediction markets to decide which contracts cross the line.
That’d be like if the New York Gaming Commission let FanDuel decide which bets it’s allowed to offer.
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@Steponaduck Fwiw he had an Unabated subscription and had a coaching session with Nate Silver. He could have sat in front of his screen for an hour a week and made money.
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This is hardly something I am considering astute journalism. You have put a guy in a position where he cannot succeed. The money he is gambling is not his, he has never done it, he doesnt speak the language, know the rules, has zero clue what he is doing, and people are surprised that he failed miserably.
The Atlantic@TheAtlantic
After @McKayCoppins’s first bet on an NFL game, he was up $20. By the end of the season, he’d lost $10,000 and was checking DraftKings in church. Inside his season as a gambler—and what it taught him about how gambling is suffusing American life: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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