NBA reviewing betting guardrails with sportsbooks amid gambling scandal
What guardrails were in place before the NBA became embroiled in a gambling saga?
The NBA and its partner sportsbooks reviewed which types of bets are most valuable to manipulation and were in conversation about how much bettors should be allowed to wager on those bets, according to ESPN.
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Those conversations are continuing amid the scandal, the outlet added.
The NBA identified missed free throws, fouls and turnovers as the most susceptible to manipulation, per the report, and asked its partner sportsbooks not to offer those types of bets.
The FBI has arrested 31 people involved in a rigged poker game ring backed by the New York City organized crime families.
- Ernest Aiello — reputed Bonanno mobster
- Nelson “Spanish G” Alvarez
- Louis “Lou Ap” Apicella
- Ammar “Flapper Poker” Awawdeh
- Saul Becher — professional poker player
- Chauncey Billups — Portland Trail Blazers coach, NBA Hall of Famer and 2004 NBA champion
- Matthew “The Wrestler” Daddino
- Eric “Spooky” Earnest
- Lee Fama — professional poker player
- John Gallo
- Marco Garzon
- Thomas “Tommy Juice” Gelardo — reputed Lucchese mobster charged in 2013 for beating porn star girlfriend
- Jamie Gilet
- Tony “Black Tony” Goodson
- Kenny Han
- Shane “Sugar” Henne
- Osman “Albanian Bruce” Hoti
- Horatio Hu
- Zhen “Scruli” Hu
- Damon “Dee Jones” Jones — NBA player from 1998 to 2009
- Joseph Lanni
- John “John South” Mazzola
- Curtis Meeks
- Nicholas Minucci
- Michael Renzulli
- Anthony Ruggiero Jr.
- Anthony “Doc” Shnayderman
- Robert “Black Rob” Stroud
- Seth Trustman
- Sophia “Pookie” Wei
- Julius Ziliani
FanDuel and DraftKings reportedly obliged.
The ongoing discussions also involve individual prop bets — betting limits are usually lower on prop bets than other types of bets.
“Prop bets on individual player performance can raise heightened integrity concerns and warrant additional scrutiny,” an NBA spokesperson told ESPN.
Heat guard Terry Rozier is at the center of the gambling saga.
He is alleged to have conspired with gamblers surrounding prop bets of his performance, providing them inside information about his plans to remove himself from a 2023 game while he was a member of the Hornets.
There was an influx in bets on the “under” for Rozier’s statistics, and some bookmakers took his prop bets off the board just hours before the game.
Rozier ended up playing just over nine minutes before exiting, citing a foot injury.
“Recent events demonstrate that the regulated sports betting industry is working as intended — fostering an environment of collaboration between operators, leagues, regulators, law enforcement and integrity monitoring services to help uncover suspicious activity,” a DraftKings spokesperson told ESPN.
The scandal has rocked the NBA world and also involved Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, who allegedly was a “face card” in a rigged poker scheme.
Both Rozier and Billups were put on “immediate leave” by the NBA.
“From the start, our collaboration with the NBA has helped us determine what bets not to offer, like fouls, turnovers or missed free throws, and in partnership with the league, we’ve been able to evolve our offering, including removing props on players with two-way or ten-day contracts,” a FanDuel spokesperson told ESPN.
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