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The NBA asked the nation's top commodities regulator Thursday to impose tighter restrictions on players, game officials and team staff to ensure prediction markets don't undermine sports integrity and fan confidence. Dan Spillane, the NBA's executive vice president and assistant general counsel, wrote in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that the integrity concerns posed by prediction markets are similar to those associated with sports betting.
Federal prosecutors intend to bring new charges against Terry Rozier related to their sports gambling case against the NBA player and others. A lawyer in the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of New York said Monday that it intends to file a superseding indictment against Rozier alleging that he “solicited and accepted a bribe.”
Cyro Asseo: Pat Riley on players gambling: "The most stupid thing that a player could do. Absolutely just stupid. I hate to use that word but it's the worst thing that any NBA player...when you get in bed with them as a league... with gambling sites.. to me that's a contradiction"
Pat Riley on players gambling:
— Cyro Asseo (@CyroAsseo) April 27, 2026
"The most stupid thing that a player could do. Absolutely just stupid. I hate to use that word but it's the worst thing that any NBA player...when you get in bed with them as a league... with gambling sites.. to me that's a contradiction" pic.twitter.com/z8mpHDTffK
The NBA is in active discussions with both Kalshi and Polymarket about a prediction-market deal, Front Office Sports has learned. Talks with Kalshi and Polymarket have been happening on a more informal basis for more than a year, but they’ve ramped up in recent months, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. In particular, discussions have gained momentum since Michael Selig, who was confirmed as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in December, began engaging with leagues and making clear the agency will propose rules aimed at ensuring integrity in sports markets.
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Although discussions have progressed, there’s no clear time frame for when a deal might happen. “Anything is possible,” one source says. Multiple sources familiar with the matter tell FOS an agreement could be reached before the start of next season.
While guard Terry Rozier remains on the Miami Heat’s roster, his release is expected in the coming weeks. Rozier likely won’t be on the Heat’s postseason roster, according to a league source.
With Rozier away from the team and not expected back this season in the wake of his Oct. 23 arrest stemming from a federal investigation into illegal gambling, the Heat is expected to waive Rozier before the end of the regular season to open a roster spot to add a player for depth in the postseason.
One of the reasons the Heat hasn’t yet released Rozier — even though he can no longer be used in a trade since the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline already passed — is because it doesn’t feel the immediate need to add a replacement player because of its current depth. Even with some injury issues along the way, Heat players who were once in the rotation earlier this season like Nikola Jovic, Simone Fontecchio, Dru Smith and Myron Gardner have recently had their playing time cut with the roster moving closer to full health.
Fred VanVleet sat in an Italian restaurant a short drive from the Houston Rockets’ practice facility. Between bites of his spicy pepper-topped pizza, he considered how the ubiquity of sports gambling has affected the players he represents as the president of the National Basketball Players Association. “Kind of feels like it’s gotten away from us a little bit,” he said. He tried a metaphor. “A nice little campfire makes you feel warm,” he said. “You got marshmallows and s’mores. But if it turns into a wildfire — that kind of feels like where we are right now. I don’t know how you rein it back in.”
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Pablo Torre Finds Out: We followed the money, from Venmo to IG, and found ex-Bulls guard Antonio Blakeney making it rain with a betting influencer — while trying to get back in the NBA. "Nixon didn't also have an Instagram account where he was like, 'Ayye, look at what my boys got from Watergate!'"
Pablo Torre Finds Out: NEW INVESTIGATION: Former LSU star and Bulls guard Antonio Blakeney is the unnamed "Co-Conspirator 1" in the NBA gambling scandal, according to law-enforcement officials — and he's still playing. "This... is the real original sin — but he is continuing to exist under the radar."
NEW INVESTIGATION: Former LSU star and Bulls guard Antonio Blakeney is the unnamed "Co-Conspirator 1" in the NBA gambling scandal, according to law-enforcement officials — and he's still playing.
— Pablo Torre Finds Out (@pablofindsout) February 26, 2026
"This... is the real original sin — but he is continuing to exist under the radar." pic.twitter.com/YNlXo4PaVC
In an Instagram story on Friday, which included a screenshot of the email, Nina Westbrook tied the hostility to the growth of gambling culture, which has coincided with increased vitriol toward players and their families across sports. The Athletic could not independently verify the authenticity of the email. An email message sent to the sender’s address in the screenshot went unanswered. In the expletive-laden message, the writer said Russell Westbrook “sucks to fckn bad can’t even get 10 points is pathetic I hope you both die in a car crash dumb b—-.”
“Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident. It’s something my husband and I consider routine. With that said, I’m sharing this now because I’m growing increasingly concerned for athletes,” she wrote, citing her experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist. “I felt it important to highlight the effects that sports betting has on individuals and how it puts athletes and their families in potentially dangerous positions.”