In pro leagues for every sport, you'll rarely see them.
Yup or even if there were some match fixings, you'd barely know. It is mostly observed in local leagues or games that are held not on a large scale. Athletes do not have that much of a reputation to protect yet at that point so they allow a lot of match fixings.
With pro, money is still a huge factor but in the form of sponsors. Since their games are usually broadcasted on television or online, brands that sponsor teams or players are heavily concerned with how they perform as well as how they act even outside the sport
Yeah, it's hard to check them out if they're for real sold or bought games by one and the other. That's why if you are wanting to avoid them, stick to the all popular sports and leagues so that your money if it lose as per your bet, your money gone will be accepted lightly compared to the ones that has lost against the fixed match. It's actually hard to accept that as per our ego when we've lost and then we suddenly knew it all along that they've been sold.
In pro leagues for every sport, you'll rarely see them. I don't know if there is still some that's happening and go unnoticed because of how much big money that's being staked for every match and the share that they might get. While it can involve some players without the knowledge of the opponent and other teams. One of the most recent in the pro scene in basketball in the NBA is with Jontay Porter.
He's lost his integrity for some money that he can get from the bettors in exchange of his reputation to be crumpled all of his life and being written in the history of the NBA.
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NBA bans player for gambling violationsWhen I say that it's rarely happening in the prominent leagues, it actually does. But there are still some athletes that are trying to enter the pit and takes risk.
As long as there is big money in gambling behind something there always will be some flavor of match fixing. In the major sports where the stars making millions and millions in salary it might not be that much but college sports, probably way more than people think. These kids make next to nothing if anything at all. Someone offers 20k just to make sure a certain set of points comes out is lucrative to make them do it.
That sure it does. That's why most of the sponsors in many sports are gambling sites. Millions are being made from each games and who knows what happens on the backend for these kind of leagues for college sports. But if we'd compare how much contracts the coaches, the players are getting there, they're becoming high end sports too so who knows how the organization is getting money back. Maybe through merch, sponsors and gambling(?). Hehe!
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