Silver also seemed to dispute his own narrative when he started combining the fee with operational expenditures and mentioning they should be compensated for using their intellectual property.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would only say from the NBA’s standpoint we will spend this year roughly $7.5 billion creating this content, creating these games,\u201d he said. \u201cThose are total expenses for the season. So this notion that as the intellectual property creators that we should receive a 1 percent fee seems very fair to me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nIt might be justified to Silver, but if the money is going to anything other than monitoring gambling it would be a tougher sell to lawmakers.\u00a0 Even before his Saturday remarks the West Virginia\u2019s Finance Committee approved Senate Bill 415 that rejected the 1 percent fee.<\/p>\n
Silver did say he was willing to work with governmental bodies on compromises.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to the extent that we sit down and there are other ways and better ways to reach a fair result, we’re happy to have those discussions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is still advocating an integrity fee from states that pass sports betting legislation, but seemed to contradict earlier statements on what to call those payments. A month ago he classified it as an integrity fee. Saturday he called it a royalty. Silver was holding his annual State of the NBA press […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":70512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
NBA Commissioner Pushes for Fee on Sports Betting Amid Mixed Signals<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n