NBA Stat Track creates motion sickness, and promotes gambling to children

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Some of the key execs gleefully teaming up with Epstein collaborators to profit from promoting gambling advertising to children, using NBA Stat Track AI motion graphics on Sixers gameplay:

1. Brian Josephs, VP SportRadar

2. Jim Brown, Head of “Integrity Services” (lol) SportRadar

3. Adam “AI and kids gambling on phone app sponsors is the future” Silver, NBA Commissioner / corporate vampire 

4. Josh “Epstein Breakfast” Harris, Sixers owner and all-around dirtball billionaire who seems interested in kids in all the wrong ways (Epstein, gambling)

5. Franklin, Sixers Mascot who gets kids hyped for gambling

6. Jon Slobotkin, NBC Sports SVP mega-dirtball desperately pushing gambling on children to pay for those houses

Re: "NBA Stat Track" AI graphics on the Sixers game broadcasts:

Do whatever you want with alternate broadcasts, get this garbage off the main broadcast.

1. The graphics are distracting and, in addition, are unpleasant to look at. The repellant nature of NBA Stat Track’s flickering pixelated image quality is exacerbated by motion sickness from moving text. It also covers up actual gameplay details, like feet at the three point line. 

2. We, the audience, generally know who the players are.

We can see them on the TV already, and their shirts have numbers on the front and back that match the size of the numbers on Stat Track’s redundant AI moving graphics. YOU ARE DRIVING VIEWERS WITH IQ ABOVE 70 AWAY.

The broadcasts already also feature an accompanying audio track + closed captions with announcers telling us who has the ball.

IN SUMMARY:

It’s not worth having to look at nauseating and crass AI moving graphics on gameplay to fill in the occasional brief moments where we're wondering who has the ball because we briefly zoned out. Who cares.

While attempts to experiment with the broadcast to continually evolve with the audience and tech are appreciated, this one has the look and stink of when the NHL had “FoxTrax”. Maybe they still do? I stopped following the NHL years ago partially because watching it with a glowing puck shamed me for being a grown adult and watching it. Please don’t do that to Sixers (or any NBA) main broadcasts.

Please STOP inserting "NBA Stat Track" AI moving graphics into the actual game in the main broadcast.

This is not 2K. Stop using Ai motion graphics to sell gambling to kids. 

Suggestion, if you’ve invested enough in Stat Track that you can’t justify throwing it away to your corporate overlords:

1. If we have to keep it until this truly awful deal with SportRadar ends after the 26-27 season, put Stat Track in a stationary spot with the bottom right scoreboard graphic.

2. And please, we are begging you, remove the pointless moving circle around the player’s feet. This feature robs any remaining dignity the league and broadcast still have after covering itself in gambling advertising, MAKING THE BROADCASTS QUESTIONABLE MORALLY TO SHOW TO CHILDREN OR TO ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (I wish I was kidding lol), so stop trying to appeal to them with Stat Track. 

It's one thing for podcasts or whatever programming aimed at adults to advertise gambling, but on Sixers and NBA main broadcasts using PS1-quality AI moving graphics, similar to Joe Camel advertising tobacco to kids? Honestly, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

If Stat Track continues on the main broadcast, it would be helpful for representatives from the senate and congress to take interest. We will make sure they do.

Get this immoral, ugly, and dumb AI garbage (who cares if a shot was 24 or 26 feet? Who needs a 2K cartoon circle? What exactly is the point of the dots moving around in unison with the game?) off Sixers / NBA main broadcasts or we will work to have it banned across all sports programming. This is the polite version of this request. 

You might as well have Franklin the Sixers dog mascot wear gambling ads at this point to draw kids into gambling "games" on the gambling app advertisers.

We shouldn't give you ideas.

Watching Sixers games, and NBA games, is an important part of a lot of people’s emotional lives (yes, I am projecting, but I think I’m not alone on this), and Stat Track AI moving graphics on broadcasts inflicting nausea and general discomfort in the audience will make the city of Philadelphia even grouchier.

We already have people killing each other over parking spots. Imagine the lawless chaos that continued Sixers broadcasts with Stat Trak in its current form might unleash. Please act with your conscience and save the city.

Thank you,

Wednesday Tinasky