Van Vleet on the NBA’s relationship with sports gambling: “A nice little campfire makes you feel warm,” … “You got marshmallows and s’mores. But if it turns into a wildfire — that kind of feels like where we are right now. I don’t know how you rein it back in.”
Between bites of his spicy pepper-topped pizza, he considered how the ubiquity of sports gambling has affected the players he represents as the president of the National Basketball Players Association.
“Kind of feels like it’s gotten away from us a little bit,” he said.
He tried a metaphor.
“A nice little campfire makes you feel warm,” he said. “You got marshmallows and s’mores. But if it turns into a wildfire — that kind of feels like where we are right now. I don’t know how you rein it back in.”