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Message: [QUOTE="stamfordhusky, post: 2718223, member: 649"] True, although Stern - with Silver prodding him - was changing his view in his last few years. For example: " In 2009, then-commissioner Stern told [I]Sports Illustrated[/I], when asked if legal sports betting would be in the NBA's best interest, "It has been a matter of league policy to answer that question no. But I think that league policy was formulated at a time when gambling was far less widespread -- even legally." A couple of years prior to Stern's quote, Deputy Commissioner Silver said: ""As we began to stage exhibition games in Europe and China and jurisdictions where sports betting was legal, it caused me to focus more on this than I had historically. Then we began getting approached by sports-betting companies outside of the United States, where it's legal, to do business with them. As we became more of a global company, I began to think about what our policy should be here."" [/QUOTE]