{"id":273037,"date":"2025-11-05T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:57:11","slug":"gambling-is-a-problem-for-both-nba-and-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273037\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Is a Problem for Both NBA and the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition.\u201d So <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6748339\/2025\/10\/24\/adam-silver-response-nba-gambling-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">says Adam Silver<\/a>, commissioner of the National Basketball Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">He was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/current-and-former-national-basketball-association-players-and-four-other-individuals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">dual<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/31-defendants-including-members-and-associates-organized-crime-families-and-national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">indictments<\/a> unveiled Oct. 23, which alleged that NBA players and coaches had disclosed nonpublic team information to a criminal gambling ring; engaged in wire fraud and money-laundering conspiracies; and participated in rigged poker games that involved elaborate cheating technology, an assortment of hustlers, four Mafia families and a bouncer known as Albanian Bruce. \u201cIntegrity\u201d isn\u2019t the first word that comes to mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere\u2019s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition.\u201d So says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8543,181,3055,15363,16675,2971,17344,355,5093,99,15304,3266],"class_list":["post-273037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-apps","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-debt","tag-gambling","tag-justice-department","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-national-collegiate-athletic-association","tag-nba","tag-smartphone","tag-sports","tag-supreme-court","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}