Jaylen Brown has learn the feedback from offended bettors.
And the Celtics star has a message for any of them who really wish to again up their phrases.
“If I do happen to scroll, the comments be like, ‘f–k you, n—-r,’ da, da, da, da, da, ‘see, If I see you in the street,’” Brown mentioned on the “Million Dollaz Worth of Game” podcast. “I imply like, for actual.
“I’m going to say this to the camera: If one of you parlay motherf–kers runs up on me, I’m going to f–k you up. I’m telling you. Try it if you want to, that’s all I’m going to say.”
Brown’s feedback spotlight the ugly aspect of legalized betting on this social media period, the place some followers take it means too far to vent their frustrations.
Followers can work together with gamers like by no means earlier than and, for some, which means telling their gamers about bets that didn’t money due to mentioned participant’s efficiency.
Suns celebrity Kevin Durant acquired right into a back-and-forth trade on X with an upset fan earlier this yr.
Former North Carolina star Armando Bacot famous final yr how some followers unleashed on him as a result of he didn’t money the Over on his rebounds props.
“It’s terrible,” Bacot mentioned final March. “Even on the final sport, I assume I didn’t get sufficient rebounds or one thing. I believed I performed fairly good final sport, however I checked out my DMs, and I acquired, like, over 100 messages from individuals telling me I sucked and stuff like that as a result of I didn’t get sufficient rebounds.
“I think it’s definitely a little out of hand. But at the same time too, I get the point of it. Like, if you bet a lot of money on something, and you’re, like, one pick away and somebody messes it up, I understand the part of fans being mad. But it’s annoying, too, at times.”
Brown’s remarks come throughout a season by which betting has introduced dangerous headlines to the NBA with now ex-player Jontay Porter being banned for all times for rigging his participant props.
The NBA additionally investigated Terry Rozier over an unlawful betting scheme, however he was not discovered to have dedicated any wrongdoing.
Brown and the Celtics have 4 regular-season video games left earlier than they start their championship protection, probably because the No. 2 seed within the Jap Convention.
Boston is a -145 favourite at BetMGM to win the convention and owns the second-best odds (+200) — behind the Thunder (+175) — to repeat as champions.
