The 2023 NFL season will begin with 10 players suspended for sports gambling and will end with a Super Bowl played in close proximity to more than 60 legalized Las Vegas sportsbooks.
If that dichotomy, combined with the league’s money-making partnerships with three sportsbook operators, sounds contradictory (or like “hypocrisy at best, a systemic barrier at worst,” as NFL agent Blake Baratz wrote on Twitter), don’t bet on changes coming soon to the NFL’s strictest-of-its-kind gambling policy. Even if one or two slight modifications might create fewer headaches.
Simply, NBA players and coaches cannot bet on NBA games and league events, including the draft.
In the NFL, distinctions are made. Coaches and other team or league employees are banned from all sports gambling.
