"They're like, 'You make X amount of money or X, Y and Z, you should be able to deal with all the extra negativity, the people approaching you about the parlays,' Brown said Friday at Madison Square Garden before the Celtics face the New York Knicks. 'It creates a negative discourse around the game and players when people have money involved. ... It's leading to situations that we can avoid if more conversations were had right now.'"
"I don't think once, from my conversations with the union, that the NBA has been like, 'How can we protect players more with the environment?' There's been little to no conversation around that. It's all about, a lot of times, 'How can we increase business and increase revenue? I don't think we're having"
Jaylen Brown said the NBA is not doing enough to protect players from the effects of widespread sports betting and related pressure. He linked the issue to recent federal indictments of Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier in gambling investigations. Rozier allegedly told a friend he would remove himself from a March 2023 game while with the Hornets, prompting hundreds of thousands in prop bets. Billups faces charges tied to rigged poker games and is accused of warning a bettor about missing Trail Blazers starters. Attorneys for both deny the allegations. Brown, an NBPA vice president, called for proactive league protections and more conversation to prevent avoidable situations.
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