Should sports betting advertisements be banned from live game broadcasts?

The ads are changing what happens to the athletes. Bettors who lose money on a missed free throw now find players on social media and threaten them, and it is getting worse as betting goes mainstream. College athletes, unpaid and barely out of high school, get threats over point spreads, and the NCAA has publicly flagged gambler harassment of athletes as a growing problem. NCAA. The broadcast ads feed this directly: they frame every play as a financial event, turning players into stock tickers in the minds of angry losers. A whistle-to-whistle ban will not end gambling or end cruelty, but it stops the league's own airtime from teaching fans to watch athletes as investments. The players did not sign up to be someone's parlay leg. Stop selling the audience that idea during the game.