How Draymond Green’s seven seconds of play cost betting sites

So far, it looks like an anecdote, in the middle of a beautiful night for Golden State, who won at home 96-82 against the Cleveland Cavaliers, with 17 points from Thompson, including two registered on a raging dunk and reassuring about its state of form. But for some, this choice of Green represented a golden opportunity to hit the jackpot.

The specific case of DraftKings

How did the betting sites react? FanDuel quickly removed any possibility of betting on Draymond Green’s stats. But many others were late – Caesars, BetMGM or other PointsBet, list our colleagues – and lost even more.

ESPN discusses “millions of dollars“soaring in the business (or in the pockets of punters, it depends). Faced with this extremely rare situation, the bookmaker DraftKings stood out by studying its rules, seeking to see if Green’s case constituted a”unknown event“likely to suspend payments.

On Tuesday, faced with the discontent which mounted on social networks, DraftKings decided to reimburse the punters who had bet on an XXL performance of the strong winger of the Warriors and to credit the most lively and clever, who had counted on his starving stats . Or more than a million to pay. As for Green, he didn’t play (a second) in the loss to Memphis on Tuesday and is uncertain about Golden State’s next game against the Bucks on Thursday.