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Wednesday 1 august 2018

NBA strikes

deal with DOUBLE

MGM Resorts

to provide

data to

bettors DOWN

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA
and WNBA will now share
official data with MGM Re-
sorts International, a major
win for the leagues as they
prepare for the anticipat-
ed growth of sports betting
across the country.
The Las Vegas-based ca-
sino giant will pay the NBA
for that data to use in de-
termining outcomes of var-
ious bets. The NBA's stance
has been that getting ac-
curate stats to bettors is crit-
ical so players know what
they're betting on and so
casinos will know when to
pay out, and MGM Resorts
is the first casino to make
an arrangement with the
league for those numbers.
Terms of the deal an-
nounced Tuesday were
not disclosed, other than
it's a multiyear arrange-
ment.
"I know the value of data,"
MGM chairman and CEO
James Murren said. "To be
able to have the official
NBA data for sports bettors
around the world is very
valuable. I was willing to,
and I've paid for that."
NBA Commissioner Adam
Silver, who has been talk-
ing with Murren about such
an arrangement for weeks,
said the leagues believe
they're getting adequate-
ly compensated for the
data.
“It’s a leap of faith on both
sides,” Silver said. “It’s a
deal moderate in length Red Sox walk off in 13th on Swihart’s ground-rule double
where I think we can both
step back and assess as
we go and see, ‘Is it work-
ing? Is this deal fair? Are we
providing the consumers Boston Red Sox's Blake Swihart celebrates after his walk-off RBI double off Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Luis Garcia during the
with the right type of expe- 13th inning of a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Monday, July 30, 2018. The Red Sox defeated the Phillies 2-1.
rience?’” Associated Press
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