NBA's Betting Integrity Issues: Fines and Player Props

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00:03 >> And what's really fascinating about this story, as we bring in Mike Mazzeo

00:06 from Legal Sports Report, is that the NBA analysts on the NBA shows are not

00:10 shying away from this at all.

00:12 And I can appreciate that, but generally speaking, Mike,

00:15 I thought that this would be an open and shut case.

00:17 And people like Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley wouldn't even be talking

00:21 about it, and that would be it, but that's not the case.

00:24 So that's what has me impressed since last week,

00:26 to hear the different opinions on this situation.

00:30 Mike, thanks for coming on.

00:30 I'm sure that that's part of the discussion right now.

00:33 >> Yeah, Craig, like you said, you went over the nuts and

00:36 bolts right last week, like everybody else, of what he did.

00:38 I think the more interesting thing is what comes out of this, right?

00:41 And I was talking to Doug Smith, who covers the Rafters for

00:44 the Toronto Star, on a separate podcast.

00:46 And we both agreed the NBA has to do something in terms of offering player

00:50 props, or in this case, prohibiting them, in terms of what players are offered.

00:55 Max players, your all-star players can be offered, but

00:58 those lower money players, we don't know exactly how you're gonna do this.

01:02 Is it gonna be all rookies?

01:03 Is it gonna be guys that make less than eight figures?

01:05 Something to that extent, where players that may have a reason to do this for

01:10 monetary gain, they aren't allowed to be bet at these legal sports books.

01:14 Yes, you potentially risk the idea of them going offshore,

01:17 like the college player props.

01:19 People can't bet them here, cuz they're not legal at our books.

01:23 Where else am I gonna wanna bet them?

01:24 But it's just such a low percentage that the legal books can say, well,

01:28 it's only 1% of, and then 99% is elsewhere.

01:32 So that's something interesting.

01:34 And then just the idea of the NBA, obviously, caring about this issue very

01:38 much for integrity reasons, but then you've got all these teams being fined for

01:42 improper injury reporting.

01:43 I mean, what are we doing here?

01:44 These fines aren't doing anything.

01:46 Whether they have to be harsher or a third party has to monitor them,

01:50 the team's send it into the third party, whether it's US Integrity or

01:53 somebody else, and they clear it with an independent doctor,

01:55 or whatever the case may be.

01:57 There's gotta be something done here, cuz that's really unacceptable to me.

02:01 Just as somebody who has covered the NBA for a long time, and

02:04 you've got the ticket buying public, you've got your media partners,

02:07 you've got the betting public.

02:09 The NBA has shown in various instances they don't really care about these people,

02:13 whether it comes to tanking, star players sitting in national televised games.

02:18 They just have this track record where they haven't cared about the people that

02:20 are essentially paying their salaries.

02:23 Maybe fans don't do it directly, but through the media deals,

02:26 all these people that come and form a piece of that pie have been

02:30 screwed to an extent for some way or another.

02:33 So yeah, I just think we'll see what the player profit issue is, and

02:36 then again with the injury reporting, gotta be better.

02:40 There's gotta be a better way to do this.

02:42 And the NBA needs to come down harder on these teams that don't follow the rules

02:45 here, cuz the lines are gonna be affected, and there's people that

02:47 can have that inside information and give it to the wrong people.

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