Prop bets can be eliminated, Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark said on Friday, one day after basketball was rocked by a federal betting probe. Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were among those arrested in an FBI investigation into sports gambling.
“We’re in support of removing any types of bets, props or otherwise, that can create issues for our guys on the field,” Clark said before Game 1 of the World Series at Rogers Centre, where an advertisement for a sportsbook and casino sits over the visitor’s bullpen. “We’ve heard a lot about prop bets of late and it is one of the things we were concerned about from day one as well.”
