Don’t know if anyone has been watching any of the WNBL which started the week on YouTube but watched a game on Thursday (Jewels first game worth checking out on replay if just for fun half time chats with Lauren Jackson and Alanna Smith) and now watching Perth Lynx and Georgia Amoore now.
The entire live chat is just gambling chat. Like literally no chat about the game at all just people, mostly men, talking about hedge bets and lines to bet and then shitting on the players when they aren’t getting them their money.
I know it happens in the W too but it’s not as extremely obvious and depressing with the WNBL that it is literally all anyone’s talking about, especially when the game has been really good. Mystics fans you should be pumped about Amoore, she is gonna be so good.
We’ve seen a bunch of players in the W and the MNBA too say the abuse they get from gamblers because they miss a FT or something and it’s just so gross.
You’re never gonna separate sports from gambling but these WNBL games have just been so offensive. Last I looked 800 comments and I would say 750 of those are gambling relating.
Edit: Added context of games