Cleveland Cavaliers coach J.B. Bickerstaff and Miami Warmth coach Erik Spoelstra grew to become the newest NBA personnel to talk out in opposition to sports activities betting. After Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton stated he looks like a “prop” as a result of some gamblers complain about his stat-lines, Bickerstaff shared that issues have gone additional for him and his household.
“I’ve had my very own cases with a number of the sports activities gamblers,” Bickerstaff stated Wednesday evening. “They acquired my phone quantity and have been sending me loopy messages about the place I dwell and my children and all that stuff. It’s a harmful sport and a advantageous like that we’re strolling for positive.”
Bickerstaff stated these cases have been reported to NBA safety and have been dealt with appropriately. Nevertheless, Bickerstaff famous he is listening to it in individual throughout video games too.
“Little question it’s crossed the road,” Bickerstaff stated. “I’m standing up there and we might have a 10-point lead and the unfold is 11 and persons are yelling at me to go away the fellows in in order that we are able to cowl the unfold. It’s ridiculous. I perceive the enterprise facet of it and the character of the enterprise of it. However it’s one thing I consider has gone too far.”
Miami Warmth head coach Erik Spoelstra relayed a narrative from a sport the place safety needed to intervene with a sports activities bettor.
“I do suppose it’s considerably contradictory,” Spoelstra stated Wednesday evening. “I feel it treads on a bizarre line. We had an incident behind our bench final 12 months with (Victor) Oladipo. Any person was screaming. Safety needed to take him away. The sport was already over, and evidently, he didn’t shoot an open 3 on the finish of the sport. The sport was already determined, and this fan was completely beside himself, and he was a gambler. He had cash on regardless of the rating was. There’s simply loads of unintended penalties with that from a safety standpoint that I’m unsure everyone completely understood.”
