As the Gilbert Arenas-Javaris Crittenton saga has become unpacked, a future of stricter NBA regulation on gambling began to present itself. Several pundits asserted that the league would build bans on gambling during any team function in the next round of collective bargaining in 2011. But the New York Times reports that one team didn't wait for that, as the Nets organization has banned its players from participating in gambling games on all team flights.I, of course, don't have to spend four hours on a plane 50 or 60 times a year. But the ban sounds smart. This isn't the first gambling-related incident the league has faced, and as agent Mark Bartlenstein points out in being quoted by the Times, all this gambling can't be good for relationships or, in the cases of the poor card players, the pocketbook.
I'm not sure a team-by-team policy will have the same impact a leaguewide ban would. The Kings, for instance, won't lay down a gambling ban until the NBA mandates one. (Kings owners Joe and Gavin Maloof belong to the ownership group of The Palms casino in Las Vegas, and have been outspoken in their opinion intra-team gambling is harmless.)
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