NBA Commish: Legalized Sports Gambling Is a Safe Bet
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In an unprecedented public gathering of the heads of the nation’s top sports leagues, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Tuesday made a bold prediction about a topic his colleagues would just as soon sweep under the nearest rug: He believes sports gambling will be legalized in the United States.
Speaking at the Paley Center for Media’s “GameChangers” panel, Silver said he thinks the laws that keep sports books quarantined in Nevada and three other states eventually will fall by the wayside.
“My sense is that the law will change in the next few years in the United States, and I think it’s not as much a matter of our leagues being for or against sports betting, it’s more a function of being realists,” Silver said. “It’s a multi-hundred-billion-dollar illegal industry and I think ultimately, as the owners of our intellectual property, we’re going to embrace it and also make sure that our integrity is protected at the same time.”
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