Speaking about the arrests for the first time, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he was “deeply disturbed” by the events of the past few days.<\/p>\n
“There’s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition,” he told Amazon Prime. “And so I had a pit in my stomach. It was very upsetting.”<\/p>\n
Silver also said an NBA investigation into Rozier’s actions in March 2023, when there was “aberrational betting” in a game he played for the Charlotte Hornets against the New Orleans Pelicans, found nothing untoward.<\/p>\n
“It was brought to our attention by the regulators and the betting companies,” he added.<\/p>\n
“We then looked into that situation and were very transparent about it. And while there was that aberrational betting, we, frankly, couldn’t find anything.<\/p>\n
“The federal government has subpoena power… [it] can threaten to put people in jail, can do all kinds of things that the league office can’t do.<\/p>\n
“So, we’ve been working with them since then. And, of course, what they announced yesterday was an indictment.<\/p>\n
“And two and a half years later, he still hasn’t been convicted of anything, in fairness to Terry.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, it doesn’t look good, but he’s been put on administrative leave, and so it is a balance here between protecting people’s rights and investigating.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking about the arrests for the first time, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he was “deeply disturbed” by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}