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00:00so let's get started let's start off on the ice that's what everyone is paying attention to
00:03team usa storms back on the women's side to defeat canada two to one in overtime they take home the
00:11gold it was closer than the money line would indicate minus 480 that's what it was so you
00:16had to sweat that one if you were in on it hillary knight tied the game with two minutes to
00:20go but
00:21megan keller scored the game winning goal in overtime it's the first gold for the usa
00:25olympic team in the 108 olympic games and here is the audio of keller's game winner
00:33the outward pass for keller a defenseman nice move cuts to the net
00:37score
00:39megan keller the overtime hero the united states wins gold in the lawn
01:01what an exciting finish now we'll see if team usa on the men's side could get it done as well
01:05of
01:05course they're a big favorite today they take on slovakia and they'll drop the puck 3 10 eastern
01:11so make sure you stick with us later today for game time decisions and in game live as we have
01:16coverage
01:16of the men's pursuit of a gold medal in the nba a pretty big discussion yesterday i wouldn't call it
01:24an announcement more of a discussion it appears as though the national basketball association
01:29is going to make sure that teams are not actively and outwardly tanking which is the term that they
01:36use when teams try to lose to get more ping pong balls in the draft lottery first round draft picks
01:44can
01:44be protected only for top four or top 14 plus selections lottery odds will freeze at the trade deadline
01:53or even a later date also no longer allowing a team to pick in the top four in consecutive years
02:00and after three bottom three finishes lots of changes coming to the nba where they're trying
02:08to avoid situations with players very specifically this season on teams like the utah jazz and some
02:14others where they're just essentially sitting their players in the fourth quarter now the association
02:19back on the court last night what a game last night the clippers beat the nuggets 115 to 114 and
02:26you're
02:26not going to see this very often but a player on the clippers scored 38 points off of the bench
02:31benedict mathurin wow the joker had 22 points 17 rebounds and six assists but ty lou gets a game
02:39winner from his squad on the clippers and he discussed how big it was to get those points off the
02:44bench
02:44my fight was great you know you know we talked at halftime and we can't run a lot of plays
02:50because
02:50he don't know the plays yet but we do know concepts like once the first player is called we know
02:55how we
02:55need to play and i think we did in the first half the second half was a lot better um
02:59better spacing
03:01getting to the next actions um and running the right stuff and so i give my guys credit for doing
03:06that in
03:07the second half and you know um we haven't beat this team in a long time you know and just
03:11um defensively what
03:13we were able to do um and you know it's tough you know playing against joker you know he's the
03:18best in
03:18the world and um put you some tough positions but i thought you know we got down we continued to
03:23fight
03:23and we uh came in with the win um you know and i thought guys had decent looks throughout the
03:28second
03:28half we didn't knock down threes with all the rotating they were doing to our two guys um that
03:33being said you know jamal made a huge shot uh gave us a chance at the end uh you know
03:38on the free
03:38throw line guy that we trust the most in our team to make those shots so uh yeah we just
03:43you know
03:44i just thought the turnovers and the free throws you know that's what killed us in this game it
03:47kept them in the game when we had control of it and then late you know it just let them
03:52control the
03:52clock uh you know those last five six minutes meanwhile the detroit pistons have the new york
03:58knicks number that goes without saying they've now won three straight games against new york this
04:03season last night the final a blowout 126 to 111 the knicks were four point favorites of course
04:10that didn't factor in at all in the game because kate cunningham put up 42 points 13 assists and eight
04:18rebounds to jb bickerstaff's delight i mean just playing good basketball um you know this isn't a us
04:25you know verse the knicks thing we show up and are different um our guys have done a great job
04:31all
04:31year approaching each game the same way you know we've had a couple of those nba games where you
04:37know schedule or whatever it may have been just bit us um but for the majority of our games you
04:42know we've played the same way with the same temperament uh the same edge defended the same
04:48move the ball the same you know all those things so this is just basketball for us uh it's got
04:52nothing
04:52to do with the opponent i mean we've played i don't know how many games now do the math for
04:59me but
04:59he's been that all year long i don't think you pick an mvp based off you know just one game
05:05or one
05:05statement um he's been this way for the entire season you know i mean he's dominated both ends of
05:11the floor uh and impacted winning in a major way so um you know this was just another night of
05:17him
05:17being the same and doing the same that he's done you know night in and night out for us so
05:21you know
05:21that's again credit to him credit to his work you know his conditioning like his will to want to win
05:27his ability to be a great teammate and lead you know that's just who he's been consistently
05:33let's get to the rest of the nba slate the cavaliers keep winning they beat the uh nets last
05:38night 112 to 84 the calves were 15 and a half point favorites they've now won six straight games here's
05:46kenny atkinson on the hot street you know i just have this um you know kind of feel we we
05:54need to be
05:54really strong defensively to start the game i think that's our our best um you know defensive lineup
06:03and um you know if dean wade makes shots like that it makes it you know an incredible lineup um
06:11so
06:13um i know it's another different lineup right but um they seem to figure it out figured it out
06:20you know i thought james is we had good flow with with with that lineup is that what you would
06:25like
06:26the starting lineup to be on a long-term basis i think i think for now i think that's the
06:30that's the
06:31plan um you know we'll see you know there'll be games where we might have to match up differently or
06:37start differently but um i like the size i like the rebounding you know we rebounding is still a
06:45um an area where we have to improve dean when dean's on the court we rebound the ball a lot
06:50better
06:50um and i thought the job he did on michael porter jr i mean that guy's having a great year
06:55um i thought
06:57he was um um incredible defensively against against him no steph curry for the warriors that means no
07:05win they're now 6 and 11 this season when he doesn't play boston beat golden state 121 to 110 they
07:12were five and a half point favorites jalen brown's mvp pursuits continue 23 points 15 rebounds 13
07:17assists and after the game joe mazula said the golden state warriors they play a lot of close
07:22games some of the celtics yeah i mean i think uh if you take a look at the warriors as
07:26a team they
07:27play a ton of close games and a lot of it has to do with just their ability to go
07:30on runs and do that
07:31and so um you know look at the end of the day uh coming off the break i thought our
07:35guys were uh had
07:36great attention to detail had a great purpose to what we did and in the last 10 and a half
07:41minutes
07:41uh golden state took it to a different level and uh you know we were forced to be poised we
07:46were
07:46forced to have to make plays we're forced to have to make shots and get stopped so um that's how
07:50they
07:50play they they do a great job of going on runs i mean the run in the fourth will get
07:54talked about but
07:55really the run in the first was you know just as impactful from their standpoint and i think the
07:59first and the fourth was the best version of what you know that team is and um you know but
08:04we were
08:04able to take advantage of it we were slow to get moving i never liked the first game out of
08:08the break
08:09um it never feels great uh to have all that time off um so i felt like we were kind
08:15of slow to get
08:16moving it was good to see the fight and the um the rhythm we found uh late uh to at
08:23least make it
08:23respectable um and find some momentum and rhythm for the next game which is important welcome back
08:30to newswire here on sports grid sam mcquillan is with us from legal sports report to dive into the
08:35latest in prediction markets and certainly that's been a hot topic for us we sometimes try to avoid
08:40that topic here on the show just to talk about other things for those of you who are watching
08:44listening and viewing us and as they say consuming our show every day today's not a day we're able to
08:49avoid it let's get into it sam the national basketball association about a week and a half ago saw one
08:54of
08:54their players with a very small albeit minuscule honestly uh ownership uh in prediction markets that was
09:03honest and decumbo and then the questions started to rumble will the nba get deeply involved with
09:10prediction markets i still don't know the answer sam do you think you have any clarity on this yet
09:17yeah to your point craig that it's been hard for us to avoid talking about prediction markets
09:22that's kind of the case with the leagues right now certainly the nba um you know this past year
09:28they actually were among several leagues that wrote a letter to the cftc that warned that prediction
09:34markets lack the safeguards that their sports betting partners have you know things that monitor games
09:41any suspicious betting because they're fundamentally regulated by the cftc which has pretty much been
09:47understaffed for the past year a lot of people questioning if there's actually a regulator at the cftc
09:53policing all this stuff which is certainly booming but it's been a hard not for the leagues to mention
09:58them because they're booming and they're such a hot topic right now and you know this week adam silver
10:03coming out acknowledging uh janice and tentacumpo's ownership stake in a prediction market basically
10:09saying he's treating it as a gambling company which you know until recently players were banned from
10:15owning any stake in gambling companies they actually changed the uh collective bargaining agreement a
10:21couple years ago to allow uh players to own gambling companies that was probably because
10:26they already let uh team owners have stakes in gambling companies so there was kind of you know
10:31um a calling uh in the player community to equal the playing field there but silver's stance on
10:37prediction market certainly seems to be different than it was a couple months ago when you know the
10:42league was telling the cftc to do something about them he said they're monitoring them you know it's
10:47certainly a really uh interesting space they actually invited uh members of kalshi and polymarket
10:52to a tech summit that they had over the weekend so that's a big change from you know we're not
10:57getting involved in prediction markets now we have some of the you know their executives at our biggest
11:02stakeholder conference sportsbook executives were there too it was invite only so we don't know exactly
11:07what was talked about but you know definitely a sign that they're more on board with them you also had
11:11the nfl uh come out recently as well at super bowl on radio row uh jeff miller who's their spokesperson
11:19basically called them an interesting fan engagement tool said it could be a you know a good opportunity
11:24for the nfl to explore that's also a sharp you know pivot from what the nfl had said to the
11:30cftc a
11:30year ago when it said it was troubled by the massive expansion of these prediction markets that don't have
11:35the safeguards that fall outside of state jurisdiction and purview and then the mlb you know recently as
11:41well manfred at those owner meetings uh recently came out and said he actually briefed uh teams on
11:47how these work he views them as an interesting tool they can maybe use to better uh monitor
11:52betting and integrity you know issues within the league obviously the mlb has dealt with its own
11:58betting integrity issues with the you know the recent cleveland guardian scandals which we continue
12:02to learn more about by the day but you know not not kind of lost in this whole story or
12:07picture
12:08or development or whatever you want to call it is uh the cftc came out just this week and said
12:12it's going to fiercely defend the legality of prediction markets which is a sharp turn from
12:17just the you know a couple months ago when we had no commissioner at the cftc when the cftc basically
12:23was not doing anything about prediction markets the incoming commissioner michael selig said he'd
12:27probably look to the courts to figure all this out and have a hands-off approach but you know he
12:32came
12:32out with an op-ed this week said he's going to fiercely defend it said he's going to stop states
12:35from
12:36trying to you know stifle these innovative products he mentioned them as a great resource
12:41uh for everyday americans to hedge risk against the weather and climate he actually didn't mention
12:46sports at all which is you know the big kind of the big issue here it's why 30 states are
12:51uh
12:52enjoined in lawsuits trying to stop what they call uh illegal sports gambling that infringes on their
12:57rights and it makes up about 86 percent of kalshi's total platform volume so really notable that he didn't
13:04mention the sports uh but he signaled that he's definitely trying to defend prediction markets so
13:08i think what we have here is kind of similar to what happened with sports betting back in the day
13:12you know the leagues had sued to stop new jersey from legalizing sports betting they said that was
13:17going to be a huge integrity risk and then eventually you know they got on board adam silver wrote an
13:22op-ed
13:23in support of sports betting famously at the time and now the leagues obviously make hundreds of
13:27millions of dollars from their sports betting partnerships so this could be a similar kind of development
13:32where you know once it's going to become legal once it looks like everyone is going to inevitably
13:36get on board the leagues are going to kind of pivot and say oh well you know now maybe we're
13:40happy to embrace them and definitely happy to take the money as well but it's obviously developing
13:45circumstance we'll see what happens with all the court cases uh eventually if it goes to the supreme
13:50court i would be surprised if leagues don't continue to kind of soften their stance and inch more in
13:55supportive prediction markets but we'll have to see a lot to get to before uh full endorsement there
14:01but we'll see uh all right speaking of which let's get to south carolina we know north carolina better
14:07success as far as sports wagering and legalization is concerned uh once you get south of that you're
14:12talking about georgia you're talking about south carolina not as easy to pass things and uh honestly
14:18the two states couldn't be more different so let's get to south carolina here what's the latest is there
14:22any chance for this year or even beyond to get them on the on board yeah there's still a couple
14:28of
14:28states where sports betting is not technically legal even though you can obviously do prediction
14:32markets in them right now and south carolina is one of them there's been a sports betting bill that
14:37has been floating around since last year and it actually got a hearing this week so it's a new
14:42legislative session but the bill is still alive um which is makes the far that it marks the farthest
14:47south carolina has gotten towards sports betting right it's been a state that's historically been
14:52opposed to really any gambling expansion the governor has long uh long held a stance against gambling
14:58expansion the current session ends may 7th and there's no crossover deadline in south carolina
15:03which means the bill is technically alive basically until the spring uh it would legalize sports betting
15:09in person online statewide create the south carolina sports wagering commission and authorize up to eight
15:16sports betting apps uh with about a 12.5 tax rate and really interesting too the legal betting age
15:22would be 18 which is different than a lot of states where it's 21 obviously it's only 18 on prediction
15:27markets uh apps would have to be licensed in at least five other states so there would be likely
15:32no newcomers would probably be the fan duel draft kings bet mgms bet365s of the world but the only
15:39action that's been taken so far this session was a 3-2 vote that approved an amendment to allow the
15:45pga
15:45tour and nascar to hold licenses in the state so basically those two sports entities would be able to
15:52partner with a fan duel or draft kings of the world that's important because it gets a big stakeholder
15:57from the state on board and we'll see if the the political kind of appetite changes you know the
16:03argument is that sports betting is obviously already happening already exists in north carolina like you
16:08mentioned in other states surrounding tennessee as well uh there are about 12 million attempts to log
16:14into a sports betting app in south carolina last year a legal sports betting app that were blocked
16:18according to geo comply and about 415 000 sports betting accounts that have south carolina addresses
16:25so the argument is there's a lot of demand there people are crossing over the border it's north
16:29carolina and tennessee the state might as well you know regulate it and tax it caesars is projecting
16:35that this bill could raise about 60 million dollars a year uh for the state uh in taxes that obviously
16:42is
16:42not much in terms of you know the state's total budget it's not going to plug any big holes but
16:47it is money the state isn't getting right now so that's been a big argument for it and obviously
16:52they want to regulate it as well make sure that you know people aren't betting offshore or on
16:56prediction markets probably as well so basically the the the political hurdle remains we'll have to get
17:02people on board um been historically anti-gambling but we'll see if there's any kind of you know
17:06movement with this bill considering how the landscape has changed over the past year definitely so
17:11real quick sam before you go caesar's uh money call here stock up where do they stand and i'm seeing
17:17that in your article here a lot of it because of their digital grow so explain that yes caesar's
17:24digital is their sports betting and online casino business they've been trying to grow it spin it off
17:29into its own arm uh but until that happens they're gonna have to make sure they hit their hold rate
17:33of
17:33eight percent for the rest of the year so they'll be pushing more parlays more player props and all those
17:38high margin bets expect more of that this year from caesar's have a great weekend sam we'll see
17:43you next week thanks you too craig
17:45you
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