{"id":932980,"date":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932980\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:48:09","slug":"nba-wnba-set-to-launch-responsible-gaming-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/932980\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA, WNBA set to launch responsible gaming push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">The NBA and WNBA, in collaboration with the National Council on Problem Gambling, are \u201claunching a responsible gaming initiative this fall that will run on social and linear platforms,\u201d according to David Purdum of ESPN.com. The campaign \u201cemphasizes that no matter how much one knows about basketball, their money is at stake.\u201d NBA EVP\/Media Distribution and Partnerships Scott Kaufman-Ross said in a release, \u201c[We] want to help fans make informed decisions, understand the risk and, if they choose to bet, trade or anything similar, that they do so responsibly.\u201d WNBA Chief Growth Officer Colie Edison said that \u201chelping fans make informed decisions is central to [the] campaign.\u201d Purdum wrote the campaign \u201cpoints fans to responsible gaming education, resources to recognize problems and how to seek help, including references to gambling helplines\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/betting\/story\/_\/id\/50173984\/nba-wnba-responsible-gaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN.com, 10\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA and WNBA, in collaboration with the National Council on Problem Gambling, are \u201claunching a responsible gaming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,81630,19215,459,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-932980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fan-experience","tag-gambling","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932980","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=932980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}