The National Basketball Association has told multiple prominent sports betting platforms to limit certain types of bets ahead of the league’s 2026-27 season.
The NBA directed its sportsbook partners, such as FanDuel and DraftKings, to ban certain bets flagged in recent betting scandals, according to ESPN. The crackdown comes after the league has been mired in multiple betting scandals, including allegations that current and former players engaged in sports betting manipulation.
These banned bets announced Friday include parlay wagers on a singular player’s statistics being less than the number predicted by the platform, called the under; “first-of” bets, which are wagers on highly specific events like the player who wins the tip-off; and under bets related to players who are expected to only play a few minutes in a game, according to the outlet.
“There’s a balance between ensuring that we are removing problematic bet types but also ensuring that we don’t just move activity into the illegal market,” executive vice president of the NBA Scott Kaufman-Ross told the outlet. “And where we landed right now, we think, is the right balance of those two objectives.”
A spokesperson from FanDuel told the outlet, which was first to report the news, that the sportsbook remains committed to “building a legal and regulated market that roots out abuses by those who seek to undermine fair competition and damage the integrity of the games we love.”
In October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel announced that over 30 individuals had been arrested by the agency as part of a federal investigation into illegal organized gambling.
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Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was implicated in the arrests over allegedly fixing bets. Rozier pleaded not guilty to the allegations, and his trial is set for February 2027.
The charges against Rozier and similar charges against Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with allegations of sports-betting manipulation, were connected to the under bets the NBA banned on Tuesday, according to ESPN.
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
