{"id":308399,"date":"2025-10-16T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308399\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:45:11","slug":"charles-barkley-destroys-new-player-betting-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/308399\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Barkley destroys new player betting proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know where Charles Barkley<\/a> stands on the NCAA’s new gambling proposal<\/a>, which would allow players to bet on professional sports.<\/p>\n

Speaking with a group of reporters at the Bruce, Barkley & Basketball Golf Classic at the beginning of this week, Barkley shredded the NCAA’s idea<\/a> in an expletive-filled rant about who’s in charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw something last week, which let me know that we need to do something about the NCAA, where they announced that they\u2019re gonna let college players bet on pro sports. If that\u2019s not the stupidest s***,\u201d Barkley passionately exclaimed on Monday. \u201cYou talk about putting your kids in the kitchen and turning the stove on. Like, when I heard it, I said, \u2018This gotta be a joke, this gotta be a joke.’<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, these are the people we got running college sports, and we want to know why it\u2019s a s*** show. I mean, anybody that thinks that\u2019s a good idea should have their head examined. Like, why would you even do that if you\u2019re the NCAA? Like, are you serious right now? You think that\u2019s a good idea? Because we\u2019ve already got issues going on with kids gambling now, when they shouldn\u2019t be gambling. I mean, this is just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s hard to argue against Barkley’s feelings toward student-athletes reaching into their pockets and wagering on the pros. There have already been countless gambling-related incidents and violations<\/a> on the collegiate and professional levels.<\/p>\n

Legal betting in sports has led to a slippery slope in a short amount of time. Whether or not you agree with the NCAA’s proposal, this is another risk that could wind up leading to consequences that college players are not ready for.<\/p>\n

We’ll see if this proposal actually comes to fruition, but times are certainly changing in the world of sports and in collegiate athletics.<\/p>\n

Spencer Davies<\/a> has covered the NBA and the Cleveland Cavaliers as a credentialed reporter for over a decade. His work has appeared on Basketball News, Bleacher Report, USA Today, FOX Sports, HoopsHype, CloseUp360, FanSided, and Basketball Insiders, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know where Charles Barkley stands on the NCAA’s new gambling proposal, which would allow players to bet…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":308400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,40991,1317,1337,156059,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-308399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charles-barkley","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaa-sports","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115384623027726878","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}