The NBA finals had a betting scandal, a gambling ad every timeout, and a champion. The league's official stance is that betting is a disease and also the presenting sponsor.

March Madness: 68 teams, 40 million brackets, and one guy in your office who picked Michigan and won't shut up until Christmas.

NBA players were feeding injury info to gamblers. So the "load management" was for the sportsbook.

The last twelve months: a shutdown, an invasion, a war, a trillionaire, a heist, a wedding, three hurricanes, and a robot dog. If you wrote it as a novel, the editor would say "too much." If you lived it, you'd say "at least the Knicks won."