NEW YORK — While outlining his vision for the concept of microtransactions being implemented into NBA League Pass next fall to allow fans to purchase small segments of live action instead of whole games or seasons, commissioner Adam Silver hinted at the possibility of expanding the concept to gambling if the upcoming Supreme Court ruling leads to legalized sports betting.
Silver, who wrote a 2014 New York Times op-ed to legalize and regulate sports gambling, said the same mechanism of in-app purchases could conceivably be applied to making wagers while watching games.
“I think the vision goes as far as the imagination,” Silver said.