[Buttons840]

It's a bit of a conspiracy, but ultimately there is more money in sports betting than in the sport itself, and thus eventually the money will win and sports will just be a mechanism for gambling. The leagues will ultimately be controlled by those who run the gambling and have more money and power than the league itself.

[devilbunny]

One of the underappreciated concepts behind vice laws is that they function to prevent large-scale coopting of entire industries this way. In theory, at least.