The NBA and its players’ union support some further limitations on the kind of prop bets that sportsbooks can accept for NBA games.
Representatives for the league and the NBPA said they would be behind looking at more restrictions on prop betting — the kind of wager that allows one to bet money on the points totals and other personal statistics for a player in a game.
Prop betting has become an issue for the NBA and other sports entities since sports betting was legalized seven years ago. Former Raptors center Jontay Porter was banned from the league and pled guilty to a felony in federal court for manipulating his performance to help a group of bettors win their prop bets on him. Terry Rozier and Malik Beasley are also under federal investigations related to sports gambling.
A spokesperson for the NBPA said the union would be open to creating more limitations around prop betting if it helped diminish the amount of abuse that players receive related to betting.
“NBA players compete at the highest level with the utmost integrity and are concerned that prop bets have become an increasingly alarming source of player harassment, both online and in person,” an NBPA spokesperson said. “If tighter regulations can help minimize that abuse, then we support taking a closer look at them.”
The NBA has deals with DraftKings and FanDuel as its official sports betting partners. The two sportsbooks also have similar deals with other professional sports leagues.
Michael Porter Jr., the brother of Jontay Porter, recently discussed the temptation NBA players can sometimes face to manipulate their performances to benefit others.
“Think about it, you get mad at these dudes that do the sports betting, but think about it, if you could get all your homies rich by telling them, ‘Yo, bet $10,000 on my under. This one game I’m going to act like I’ve got an injury, and I’m going to sit out,’ ” Porter said on a podcast. “I’m going to come out after three minutes. And they all get a little bag because you did it one game. That is so not OK, but some people probably think like that. They come from nothing and all their homies have nothing. They’re like, ‘Bro, if I come out of this game after three minutes and y’all hit on my under, we’re all getting a little bag.’”
He then added, “The whole sports gambling entity, it’s bad and it’s only going to get worse. We really do get death threats.”
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How about we get rid of the gambling ads in game first
Well duh
How about we get rid of gambling on sports entirely
The world is so shit now
What kind of limitations?
If these fucks in AAU keep messing up my parlays on U13 games someone is going to answer for it
The last CBA literally let players be sponsored by betting companies and they can own minority shares in them lol
Nobody is happier about this than the off shore books who don’t give a shit what the NBA thinks.
Refs would be against it, they lose money
Some restrictions is a nice start, but ban it. It is clearly doing damage to the game.
NBA players and “utmost integrity” in the same line is pretty rich
That’s cool and all, but what about the countless ads, some even staring players, that ram sports gambling down everyone’s throats in the first place?
Prop bets are insane money makers for casinos and online books, they’re not gonna just do away with them out of the kindness of their own heart.
lol they want to restrict prop betting because it’s what players within the organization have gotten in trouble for. Terry rozier can no longer tell his homeboys to drop 5k on his unders
❌: Prop bets
✅: Commercials, on-court advertisements, arena naming rights, in-game advertisements, network branding, and more
“Let’s take a look at the FanDuel live points spread, while we have a shot of the FanDuel logo on the hoop in the background, while asking Charles Barkley to guess an over-under point total, right after this commercial break, brought to you by our friends at FanDuel” is cool, but, player X making less than 3 3’s in a game is where you draw the line?
And for their next trick, they’re gonna magically get the spilt milk back into the carton.
Between popularized day trading, prediction markets, gambling and crypto, don’t feel like these are healthy activities for mainstream society
Get rid of gambling in general.
“Ah, it’s the *prop bets* that are the source of this cancer!”
It’s really just player prop betting.
Hold on. While we are at this gambling thing the NBA is literally working in tandem with betting sites. Tired of seeing these commercials during games. Gambling is worse than alcoholism. The addicted do not know it’s wrong until it’s too late.
Ask Irv Gotti about Gilbert Arenas fucking up his over/unders back in the day
Its also a NYT article so im sure half of it is fabricated
glwt NBA. You opened this can of worms, now eat it.
Waiting for a big case to happen, like a frustrated gambler unalive a player
Betting shouldn’t have a human element to it at all.