Adam Silver acquired a letter on Friday from members of Congress requesting a briefing on the NBA’s ongoing playing scandal by October 31. The bipartisan letter from the Home Committee on Vitality and Commerce adopted a day after Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones have been arrested in two separate federal playing investigations.
The letter acknowledged unlawful sports activities betting based mostly on private data within the NBA “isn’t a brand new downside,” referencing former NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleading responsible to federal fees for utilizing insider data to guess on video games he officiated in 2007.
The letter additionally referred to as out the NBA for beforehand clearing Rozier of wrongdoing from the March 2023 sport.
The committee has requested the NBA handle 5 particular areas: whether or not the league’s Code of Conduct successfully prohibits criminality; the disclosure of private data for unlawful betting functions; deliberate actions to restrict such disclosures; and whether or not the NBA is reevaluating its partnerships with sports activities betting firms.
