蒂姆·雷诺兹 迈阿密——NBA已达成协议，将使卡尔希和波利市场成为该联盟的首选预测市场，同时与负责监管这些交易所的联邦机构达成了一项协议。
TIM REYNOLDS MIAMI — The NBA has struck deals that will make Kalshi and Polymarket the league’s preferred prediction markets, along with an agreement with a federal agency tasked with regulating those exchanges.
这些协议于周一宣布，旨在为“与NBA相关的市场提供重要的诚信保护”，包括限制这些交易所可以提供的内容、对网站用户可疑模式保持透明，以及禁止联盟和球队人员参与与联盟赛事相关的交易。
Those agreements, announced Monday, are intended to provide “significant integrity protections for NBA-related markets,” including limitations on what can be offered on those exchanges, transparency when it comes to suspicious patterns by site users, and banning league and team personnel from making trades related to league events.
NBA表示，预测市场将承担“与调查和可疑交易相关的信息共享义务”。NBA一段时间以来已与其体育博彩合作伙伴建立了类似的防护机制，并列举了该系统标记出投注模式异常的实例。
The prediction markets will have “information-sharing obligations relating to investigations and suspicious trading,” the NBA said. The NBA has had similar guardrails in place with its sportsbook partners for some time and has cited instances where that system has flagged irregularities in betting patterns.
“如果你要对我们的比赛下注、对我们的比赛进行交易，或者围绕我们的比赛玩范特西，那么受到监管总比不受监管要好，”NBA媒体分销与合作伙伴关系主管斯科特·考夫曼-罗斯说。“显然，我们的球迷对这项活动有兴趣。因此，在一个有透明度、可以监控、我们能洞察所发生情况的受监管市场中，我们处于更有利的位置来保护我们比赛的诚信。”
“If you’re going to be betting on our games or trading on our games or playing fantasy around our games, it’s better for it to be regulated than unregulated,” said Scott Kaufman-Ross, the NBA’s head of media distribution and partnerships. “And clearly, our fans have interest in this activity. So, we’re in a better position to protect the integrity of our games in a regulated market where there’s transparency, where things can be monitored and we have insight into what’s happening.”
NBA还在扩大与现有官方体育博彩合作伙伴（如DraftKings）的协议，以纳入他们的预测市场产品。并非所有州都提供合法化的体育博彩，但预测市场——至少在一定程度上——基本上在所有50个州都可以使用。
The NBA is also expanding its agreements with current official sports betting partners, such as DraftKings, to include their prediction-market offerings. Not all states offer legalized sports betting but predictions markets — at least on some level — are essentially available in all 50 states.
十多个州卷入了关于预测市场的诉讼，本月早些时候，NFL请求最高法院对此类市场的监管作出裁决。美国商品期货交易委员会主张其拥有专属监管管辖权，尽管一些州认为这应属于它们的职权范围。
More than a dozen states are involved in litigation over prediction markets and earlier this month the NFL asked the Supreme Court to rule on the regulation of such markets. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission contends that it has exclusive jurisdiction on oversight, though some states believe it should fall under their purview.
本月初，NBA 告知体育博彩公司，本赛季将不允许其提供某些类型的投注，包括但不限于：哪位球员记录比赛首项数据、跳球结果，以及对预计出场时间仅几分钟的球员进行“小分”投注。周一宣布的协议预计将包含类似限制。
Earlier this month, the NBA told sportsbooks they will not be permitted to offer certain types of wagering this season, including but not limited to which players record the first stat of a game, the outcome of the opening tip and taking the “under” involving players not expected to play more than a few minutes. The deals announced on Monday are expected to have similar restraints.
“其中很大一部分是对可提供市场类型的限制，”考夫曼-罗斯说。“我们将有权批准我们比赛可提供的市场类型，这对我们来说是一个非常重要的组成部分。作为其中一部分，我们与这些公司进行了非常建设性的对话。”联盟表示，NBA 与 CFTC（美国商品期货交易委员会）签署的谅解备忘录“体现了双方共同致力于确保 NBA 相关预测市场接受适当的监管监督和诚信保护”。
“A big part of this is a limitation on the types of markets that can be offered,” Kaufman-Ross said. “We will have the right to approve the types of markets that are available on our games, which is a very important component for us. And we’ve had very constructive dialogues with the companies as part of that.”The NBA’s memorandum of understanding with the CFTC “reflects a shared commitment to ensuring that NBA-related prediction markets are subject to appropriate regulatory oversight and integrity protections,” the league said.
作为与 NBA 合作伙伴关系的一部分，Kalshi 和 Polymarket 现在可以自称“NBA 首选预测市场交易所”，并可使用联盟知识产权（如标志），能够从联盟合作伙伴 Sportradar 获取 NBA 统计数据“以运营和结算经授权的 NBA 相关市场”，以及进行其他营销推广活动。
Kalshi and Polymarket, as part of their partnerships with the NBA, will now be able to describe themselves as the “Preferred Prediction Market Exchange of the NBA,” plus have access to league intellectual property such as logos, be able to get NBA statistical data from league partner Sportradar “to operate and settle authorized NBA-related markets,” and other marketing activations.
NBA 与 Kalshi 和 Polymarket 协议的条款未予披露，联盟仅确认协议为期多年。有 NBA 球星与这些市场存在商业关系；迈阿密的扬尼斯·安特托昆博曾为 Kalshi 代言，费城的勒布朗·詹姆斯最近与 Polymarket 签约。至少还有一位 NBA 球星、圣安东尼奥的维克托·文班亚马最近表示，他永远不会为这类网站代言。点击此处查看 AP 的完整 NBA 报道
The terms of the NBA’s agreements with Kalshi and Polymarket were not disclosed, other than the league confirming that they are for multiple years. There are NBA stars with business relationships with those markets; Miami’s Giannis Antetokounmpo has promoted Kalshi and Philadelphia’s LeBron James recently signed a deal with Polymarket. At least one other NBA star, San Antonio’s Victor Wembanyama, recently said he will never endorse such sites. See AP’s full NBA coverage here