NBA commissioner Adam Silver makes call for more gambling regulation in the US
Silver has been asking operators to pull back on some prop bets.
US.- National Basketball Association (NBA) commissioner Adam Silver has suggested that federal gambling legislation is needed in the US to reduce opportunities for game manipulation and to combat negative behaviour. He made the comments on The Pat McAfee Show.
He said: “I think, probably, there should be more regulation, frankly. I wish there was federal legislation rather than state by state. I think you’ve got to monitor the amount of promotion, the amount of advertising around it.
“With this regulated structure of legalized betting, we can monitor it in ways that were unimaginable years ago. If there’s any aberrational behavior: People betting large numbers who hadn’t historically done so, just opening an account to place bets, or even the geotargeting, we know exactly from where the bets are being placed, very specifically.”
Silver also said that the NBA had asked operators to limit some wagers on two-way players to protect player credibility.
He stated: “We’ve asked some of our partners to pull back some of the prop bets, especially when they’re on two-way players, guys who don’t have the same stake in the competition, where it’s too easy to manipulate something, which seems otherwise small and inconsequential to the overall score.”
Silver also mentioned the importance of protecting the competitors. He said: “It’s often the case that your team wins and a player scores 25 points, but the fan, the bettor, had bet that the player was going to score 28 points or 30 points. We have to protect the competitors. We want to protect the environment in the arena of people getting out of hand.”
