{"id":328403,"date":"2025-10-24T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328403\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:00:11","slug":"nba-coaches-steve-kerr-david-adelman-rick-carlisle-others-react-to-betting-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/328403\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA coaches Steve Kerr, David Adelman, Rick Carlisle, others react to betting scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The betting allegations surrounding Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups<\/a> continue to hover over the NBA and likely will for a while. The FBI\u2019s investigation sent shockwaves through the sports world and forced players and coaches to face questions about how gambling continues to impact the game in a variety of ways, especially now that the NBA and other professional sports leagues have partnered with various gambling companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the biggest thing is that our players face a lot of wrath (from) fans,\u201d Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr said before Thursday\u2019s game against the Denver Nuggets. \u201cI\u2019ve talked to our guys; our guys get nasty social media posts from people who have bet on games. That\u2019s the thing that I don\u2019t like about this the most. Our players should not have to deal with that, but they do. They probably would anyway, even if we didn\u2019t have a partnership with these companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s just kind of the modern life: social media, everyone having access to everyone else. It\u2019s rough. I feel bad for our guys. I\u2019ve gotten some emails in the past from people I don\u2019t know, saying, \u2018Hey, thanks a lot. I had money on the game tonight, and you screwed up by subbing so and so in,\u2019 or something like that. I\u2019ve gotten those, too. It\u2019s weird. It\u2019s really weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

While discussing whether the organization has any safeguards in place to try to prevent any issues like this from popping up again, Kerr noted that the organization\u2019s legal counsel spoke to the team earlier this week. Nuggets coach David Adelman and Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said their teams recently received a similar presentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery team in the league does this,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cGoes through bulletin points of everything that is not allowed in this issue. So our players are well aware, all players are well aware, of what they\u2019re allowed to do, what they\u2019re not allowed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carlisle, the president of the National Basketball Coaches Association, said he contacted Billups to \u201csee how he was doing\u201d after the Portland Trail Blazers\u2019 head coach was arrested as part of multiple federal investigations into illegal gambling. Billups \u201cdid not answer,\u201d according to Carlisle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coaches association, we support all of our coaches,\u201d Carlisle said before Thursday\u2019s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>. \u201cSo I reached out to him and his representatives, and I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the league continues to evaluate what steps to take in the wake of these allegations, the Nuggets have a unique connection to the case, given that Billups\u2019 younger brother, Rodney, is a coach for the team. Rodney Billups served on his brother Chauncey\u2019s staff from 2022 to 2024 with the Blazers. Adelman was asked before the game how the Nuggets are handling whether Rodney needs to step away from the organization as his brother deals with the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s between me and Rodney,\u201d Adelman said. \u201cAnd whatever Rodney needs for his family is all I care about. The situation itself, I only know what I read. You guys know what I know. So you know what it is when your family member is affected by something; you have to support that person. Rodney\u2019s been nothing but great for us since he\u2019s been here, so obviously, it\u2019s a situation that\u2019s in flux. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many in the league are wondering the same thing. Kerr reiterated that each team has been made aware of what is not allowed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very comfortable sharing details of these meetings,\u201d Kerr said. \u201cBecause the league is very adamant about this stuff. Every team has to listen closely and hear everything, and a big part of that meeting was, \u2018(If) you tell one of your friends that so and so is not playing, and then that person tells somebody else, you are liable.\u2019 We know this, and the league has kept us informed and up to date on all this stuff year after year, and so it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Kerr, Adelman was asked if anything can be done to prevent a situation like this from happening again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think education trumps everything,\u201d Adelman said. \u201cYou just have to keep doing the best job you can. It\u2019s new. It\u2019s like anything else when the world changes; there\u2019s gonna be hiccups, and people get themselves into tough situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s such a part of our culture now and community; it\u2019s not going anywhere. It\u2019s like anything \u2014 you have to bring it up maybe more, have more meetings about it, mention it more throughout the year, because you care about your players, you care about your staff. You just don\u2019t want to see them get in a tough situation. Because once you\u2019re in that situation, especially something like this, it\u2019s hard to get out of it. So I think it\u2019s support and education, and then you go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Warriors veteran center Al Horford echoed Kerr\u2019s sentiments Thursday morning, saying he has seen a change in how fans interact with players as betting advertisements continue to permeate everyday culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s much different,\u201d Horford said. \u201cIt looks aggressive at times. And I understand that we are professional athletes and this is the world we\u2019re in and everything. But I think that the league itself has to step in and probably do more to protect the players and to be better. All this comes with it. It\u2019s the fan engagement, but also there\u2019s that other part.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very interesting time because it\u2019s the first time that, as a league and as a society, we\u2019re all living and going through this. So there\u2019s a lot of things that I\u2019m sure will be worked out and that will be better, but that kind of comes with the territory, and it\u2019s something that you just have to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The betting allegations surrounding Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups continue to hover over the NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":328404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3134,3140,51,1267,1260,50,3133,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-328403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-denver-nuggets","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115427621202184195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}