there have been some threads on how dangerous this is and we are now starting to see the fruits of our actions. We are starting to see some responsible people speaking out.
Cavs Coach, JB Bickerstaff
Cavs Coach, JB Bickerstaff
“No doubt it’s crossed the line,” Bickerstaff said. “I’m standing up there and we may have a 10-point lead and the spread is 11 and people are yelling at me to leave the guys in so that we can cover the spread. It’s ridiculous. I understand the business side of it and the nature of the business of it. But it’s something I believe has gone too far.”
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had a similar view about the security concerns that come with sports gambling.
“I do think it’s somewhat contradictory,” Spoelstra said before tipoff Wednesday night. “I think it treads on a weird line. We had an incident behind our bench last year with (Victor) Oladipo. Somebody was screaming. Security had to take him away. The game was already over, and evidently, he didn’t shoot an open 3 at the end of the game. The game was already decided, and this fan was totally beside himself, and he was a gambler. He had money on whatever the score was. There’s just a lot of unintended consequences with that from a security standpoint that I’m not sure everybody totally understood.”