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I’m here once again with a public service announcement to remind everyone not to believe everything they read on the internet. And to question motives behind some of the things you do see.
A couple of weeks ago, I warned about using LLMs and AI to do statistical data mining for you when it comes to basketball. Today, I’m warning you about prediction markets and their ability, and incentive, to manufacture a story out of almost nothing in an effort to get your attention, open your wallet, and put money into their systems.
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We’re in the final dead stretch of the NBA offseason. Media days and training camps begin at the end of September, but until then, there simply isn’t much happening. Most transactions are complete. Rosters are largely set. Unless your team has suffered a major injury, which the Suns unfortunately have, there isn’t much real news to work with.
That isn’t going to stop prediction markets from trying to create some. Take what Kalshi NBA posted this weekend about Devin Booker and the supposed likelihood of him teaming up with Steph Curry, Steve Kerr, and the Golden State Warriors.
“I think the Warriors like [Booker] too much, if you ask me. Steve Kerr loves him,” Tim Kawakami recently stated on the Warriors Plus/Minus podcast. “Booker loved playing for Steve…I know the Warriors would be first in line saying, ‘We got three first-round picks we can give you’.”
To his credit, Kawakami is a respected journalist who covers the Golden State Warriors for The San Francisco Standard and has spent 35 years covering Bay Area sports. I’m sure he has sources within the organization who have told him the Warriors would have interest in Devin Booker. As someone who has a podcast himself, there are plenty of things I state that can be taken as speculative and/or out of context. But in the same breath, why wouldn’t the Warriors be interested? I might not have the same credibility, but I could go on my podcast tomorrow and say the Suns would have interest in Stephen Curry. Because of course they would.
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That’s what makes this less about what Kawakami said on a podcast and more about what…
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