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Aug 20, 2026; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Las Vegas Aces center A’ja Wilson (22) reacts after scoring against the Connecticut Sun during the third quarter of a WNBA basketball game at Michelob Ultra Arena. A photo of the NBA logo has been added to the left side.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, the NBA joined the NFL, NHL, MLB, and MLS along with their respective player unions in issuing a memo to State Gaming Commissions and Regulatory Authorities regarding harassment of athletes by bettors.<\/p>\n
The memo referred to the group as the \u201cfive largest professional sports leagues and players associations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Noticeably absent, however, was the\u00a0WNBA, and the league\u2019s players\u2019 union, which has repeatedly spoken out about player harassment by fans<\/a> in recent seasons, is not happy about it.<\/p>\n WNBA Players\u2019 Union Calls Out NBA In Statement Addressing Gambling Memo<\/p>\n In the memo, the leagues asked state gaming commissioners for additional regulations that would ban fans who threaten athletes over gambling activity.<\/p>\n \u201cThreatening the safety of an athlete or their family members over a sports bet crosses a bright ethical and criminal line, and it is entirely unacceptable,\u201d the memo read.<\/p>\n This has, of course, happened several times in the WNBA. So why, then, were they left out of the discussion?<\/p>\n \u201cIt is deeply disappointing that, given the very public and troubling incidents of betting-related harassment experienced by our members over the past several seasons, the NBA determined that WNBA players did not warrant inclusion in a joint position statement intended to address this very issue,\u201d WNBPA executive director Terri Carmichael Jackson told Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n Perhaps the NBA considered that, because the league owns over 40 percent of the WNBA, it was already spoken for? On top of that, a number of NBA owners also hold stakes in WNBA franchises, and the leagues operate out of the same office in New York City.<\/p>\n Either way, it\u2019s clear that the WNBA isn\u2019t happy that it was yet again an afterthought, only further fueling the seemingly growing tension with its men\u2019s counterpart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports \/ Lucas Peltier-Imagn Images Aug 20, 2026; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Las Vegas Aces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,19215,459,82,6452,630],"class_list":["post-896917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gambling","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}