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Mavs guard Kyrie Irving says that sports betting has taken the purity away from the game and calls media members bitter gentlemen and women.

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The Dallas Mavericks suffered a 113-106 loss against the New Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday night, with Kyrie Irving scoring 27 points.

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After the game, Irving took to Twitch where he ranted about multiple topics. First, he addressed the downsides of betting.

"Gambling and sports betting have completely taken the purity and the fun away from the game at times," he emphasized. "There's a difference between being a diehard fan and supporting your team and loving your team versus somebody that's betting on a parlay or somebody that wants to hit. God dang, like this whole community of gamblers that's coming to the game of basketball..."

"Why don't you gamble on something that makes sense to you? I'm just saying you gambling, you going to win or lose. But that doesn't mean sliding into people's DMs or wishing bad on them or doing the extra shit that goes on, man. It blows my mind sometimes. You feel me?" Irving referred to his listeners.

Later, he complained about how fans look at him and how media members show him in the wider picture.

"You see me for 3 hours and you think you know who I am," Irving addressed the fans. "You see a few posts: 'What's Kai gonna do this summer? Does Kai like Dallas? What happened in Brooklyn? What happened in Boston? What happened in Cleveland? Why did you leave LeBron? Why did you leave Jayson? Why did you leave KD?' Ask all these legitimate questions — as if 21 hours every day wasn't happening after that.

"It's 15 guys on the team, and I'm the one cancer in the room. That's what it's portrayed as. These older, bitter gentlemen and women keep my name in their mouths every day."

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