{"id":94696,"date":"2025-08-19T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94696\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:21:07","slug":"nba-nbpa-support-restrictions-on-prop-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94696\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA, NBPA support restrictions on prop betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The NBA and the NBPA \u201csupport some further limitations on the kind of prop bets that sportsbooks can accept for NBA games,\u201d according to Mike Vorkunov of THE ATHLETIC. Representatives for the league and the NBPA said that they would \u201cbe behind looking at more restrictions on prop betting.\u201d An NBA spokesperson said, \u201cAny approach should aim to reduce the risk of performance manipulation while ensuring that fans who wish to place prop bets can continue to do so via legal, regulated markets.\u201d An NBPA spokesperson said that the union \u201cwould be open to creating more limitations around prop betting if it helped diminish the amount of abuse that players receive related to betting.\u201d The NCAA is also \u201cattempting to stop books from accepting bets on the individual stats of college athletes.\u201d NCAA President Charlie Baker has been on a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2023\/11\/09\/ncaa-charlie-baker-players-betting-on-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2023\/11\/09\/ncaa-charlie-baker-players-betting-on-games\/\">yearlong lobbying effort<\/a> against it,\u201d with buy-in from four states. The NBA has deals with DraftKings and FanDuel as its official sports betting partners. The two sportsbooks also have \u201csimilar deals\u201d with other professional sports leagues (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6561182\/2025\/08\/18\/nba-players-union-support-limitations-prop-bets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6561182\/2025\/08\/18\/nba-players-union-support-limitations-prop-bets\/\">THE ATHLETIC, 8\/18<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">STRICTER LIMITS: ESPN.com\u2019s David Purdum noted the NBA asked its partner sportsbooks to \u201cstop allowing bettors to wager on the under on prop bets involving players on two-way contracts.\u201d The league now believes that \u201cfurther limitations on prop bets may be warranted.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/04\/17\/nba-bans-toronto-raptors-jontay-porter-for-life-gambling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/04\/17\/nba-bans-toronto-raptors-jontay-porter-for-life-gambling\/\">Former NBAer Jontay Porter<\/a> is one of three players, along with Heat G <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/01\/30\/terry-rozier-betting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/01\/30\/terry-rozier-betting\/\">Terry Rozier<\/a> and NBA free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/30\/fbi-investigating-malik-beasley-for-gambling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/06\/30\/fbi-investigating-malik-beasley-for-gambling\/\">Malik Beasley<\/a> known to have \u201cbeen investigated as part of a federal gambling inquiry.\u201d Neither Rozier nor Beasley have been charged with a crime. A spokesperson noted that the NBPA views the Porter case as \u201can outlier and has seen no evidence other performance manipulation in the league.\u201d Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine called for \u201ca ban on so-called microbets\u201d &#8212; wagers placed on specific events during games &#8212; after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/28\/guardians-emmanuel-clase-placed-on-paid-leave-amid-mlb-gambling-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/28\/guardians-emmanuel-clase-placed-on-paid-leave-amid-mlb-gambling-investigation\/\">two<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/07\/fears-of-potential-gambling-scandal-in-mlb-raised-amid-ortiz-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/07\/fears-of-potential-gambling-scandal-in-mlb-raised-amid-ortiz-investigation\/\">Guardians pitchers<\/a> were placed on leave amid an MLB investigation into \u201csuspicious betting activity on the result of select individual pitches during two games in June.\u201d A source confirmed that MLB is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/08\/mlb-urged-to-limit-player-prop-bets-in-light-of-nba-crackdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/08\/mlb-urged-to-limit-player-prop-bets-in-light-of-nba-crackdown\/\">discussing the microbet issue<\/a>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45987377\/nba-union-back-bet-limits-curb-manipulation-athlete-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45987377\/nba-union-back-bet-limits-curb-manipulation-athlete-abuse\">ESPN.com, 8\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA and the NBPA \u201csupport some further limitations on the kind of prop bets that sportsbooks can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15363,355,99],"class_list":["post-94696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-gambling","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696","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=94696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}