An NBA memo despatched to all 30 groups mentioned the “dire dangers of playing,” as properly how the league will reassess its method to authorized sports activities betting.
The memo comes after Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups have been arrested and indicted final week as a part of a federal investigation into playing schemes involving sports activities betting and poker.
“Whereas the bizarre betting on Terry Rozier’s ‘unders’ within the March 2023 recreation was detected in actual time as a result of the bets have been positioned legally, we imagine there may be extra that may be finished from a authorized/regulatory perspective to guard the integrity of the NBA and our affiliated leagues,” the memo states. “Specifically, proposition bets on particular person participant efficiency contain heightened integrity issues and require further scrutiny.”
The memo additionally mentioned methods the league is enhancing its monitoring packages to “synthesize all out there knowledge from betting operators, social media, and different sources to establish betting exercise of concern.”
The memo then laid out a recreation plan on the league will cope with the sports activities betting panorama transferring ahead.
“With sports activities betting now occupying such a big half of the present sports activities panorama, each effort have to be made to make sure that gamers, coaches and different NBA personnel are absolutely conscious of the dire dangers that playing can impose upon their careers and livelihoods; that our harm disclosure guidelines are acceptable; and that gamers are shielded from harassment from bettors,” stated the memo.
