David Pertum, it's been a crazy time on the sports bets beat. You've been doing this for a while,

though I feel like people in your position kind of knew that times like these were on the way.

I certainly believed that some sort of betting scandals were inevitable.

O'Tani accused his former friend and interpreter Ipe Mizuhara of stealing his money in the amount of 4.5 million

dollars to cover Mizuara's own gambling debts with an illegal bookmaker.

Toronto Raptors forward Jante Porter

is under investigation following multiple instances

of betting irregularities over the past several months.

Cavalier's head coach J.B. Bickerstaff made headlines for his comments about the harassment.

He has seen from fans who have money riding on games.

It is kind of a defining time not only for my beat here as a sports betting industry, but really

for overall sports.

This is a new time that we're trying to navigate.

Yeah, beyond the situation with Otani's interpreter

and these suspicious prop bets in the NBA,

we've got players and coaches dealing with harassment

from betters and growing calls for more regulation.

So David, how do you assess the state of the betting

industry right now? I think as society overall we're trying to adapt to this new

environment. The sports books when they came out and they brought this illicit activity

into the regulated environment. They had to come out aggressive. It was a big customer acquisition

battle and now they're kind of seeing a little bit of backlash and maybe we were going to start seeing some pullback.

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