NBA Legal Sports Betting One Percent Proposal
As New Jersey seems to be winning its arguments before the Supreme Court that the federal ban on sports betting (Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, 1992) is unconstitutional across the board, the NBA – once an outspoken proponent of legalized sports betting in America – has met with the New York Senate committee to “propose” a set of new federal laws to replace the ones that might be getting tossed any minute now.
Of course, the individual freedom to spend your own money on whatever you want isn’t (and won’t be) a part of the discussion. Instead, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Senior Vice President Dan Spillane have put together a rubric for new laws to benefit their brand even more in the face of impending legal sports betting nationwide. Naturally, that rubric includes a variety of “integrity”- and “social”-based programs that somehow haven’t been on the NBA’s radar even though Nevada (and most of the rest of the world) has offered legal NBA betting for decades now. You can read the absurd proposal in its entirety here.
Ultimately, the NBA doesn’t really believe in any of the points it cites as concerns. They understand that legal sports betting happens at a huge scale despite domestic federal laws, and they have never instituted a single check or balance against the “corrupting” influence that such gambling might have on professional basketball and other sports leagues. In other words, if the NBA doesn’t have fraud prevention and match-fixing protocols in place to combat the estimated $200-500 billion that US residents spend on legal sports betting at offshore sportsbooks, the issue is clearly unimportant.
Furthermore, legalizing NBA betting would not magically make criminal parties more prone to scheme with officials and players to throw games and manipulate outcomes. “Black market” sports betting (a misnomer, because the activity is 100% legal) would make such abuses far more likely if they were a real problem. Remember Tim Donaghy? How many more laws would have stopped him from betting on the games he was officiating? And would he have done all that had his name been published on a legal betting slip in his own home state? Why isn’t it simply adequate to have laws against match-fixing? We already have those, after all.
These are uncomfortable questions for the NBA (and the federal government), and they’re observations that you won’t find any answers to from anyone in the position to decide one way or the other on what US sports betting law should look like going forward. But ultimately, LegalGamblingUSA believes it hardly matters – just use an offshore sportsbook and bet on whatever you want. It’s already legal, and you won’t have to worry about money-grubbing billion-dollar businesses usurping your innate freedom of choice for monopolistic profit. The NBA wants 1%? They can have 1%.
Of nothing.
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