{"id":466500,"date":"2025-10-26T23:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466500"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:57:19","slug":"j-b-bickerstaff-gambling-implications-are-scary-players-must-be-cautious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/j-b-bickerstaff-gambling-implications-are-scary-players-must-be-cautious\/","title":{"rendered":"J.B. Bickerstaff: Gambling implications are scary, players must be cautious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1768\"><strong data-start=\"1371\" data-end=\"1390\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1417\">J.B. Bickerstaff<\/strong> voiced concern over the growing impact of <strong data-start=\"1460\" data-end=\"1478\">sports betting<\/strong> on the NBA, warning that even casual conversations can have serious consequences. \u201cIt\u2019s a scary situation,\u201d he said before Sunday\u2019s home opener against the Celtics. \u201cThe information our guys have \u2014 from practices or shootarounds \u2014 can be monetized now. You have to be extremely careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"2200\">Bickerstaff added, \u201cWhen you get in bed with gambling, a lot comes with it. All money ain\u2019t good money.\u201d His comments follow the arrest of <strong data-start=\"1909\" data-end=\"1929\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong> \u2014 a close friend \u2014 in connection with a <strong data-start=\"1970\" data-end=\"2004\">federal gambling investigation<\/strong> that also involves <strong data-start=\"2024\" data-end=\"2040\">Terry Rozier<\/strong>. \u201cI\u2019ve known him since I was in seventh grade,\u201d Bickerstaff said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to see what he\u2019s going through, but we have to let due process take its course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2381\">The Pistons coach emphasized the need for education and awareness: \u201cThis is a sensitive issue. Players and coaches must understand that information now equals money \u2014 and risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2439\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2409\">Source: Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff voiced concern over the growing impact of sports betting on the NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466500"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466500"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466500"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}