The awkward position that sports media finds itself in amid the NBA gambling scandal was put on full display Thursday when a famed basketball podcaster bemoaned how prop bets were an “absolute menace” – right after urging his listeners to sign up for a sports betting app so they could “customize player props.”
Zach Lowe, a veteran sportswriter who now hosts a twice-weekly podcast for The Ringer, opened up Thursday’s episode with an ad read from the show’s sponsor – gambling website FanDuel.
