

Money talks.
It probably should come as no surprise that the National Basketball Association Commissioner Adam Silver has signed a deal with the Las Vegas-based MGM Grand Hotel, which is also a sports betting casino that allows the hotel to become the Official Data Partner of the NBA. Silver has been pushing for legalized sports gambling and has struck his first deal, one that will bring $25 million into the league and allows the hotel and other properties that MGM owns in Las Vegas to use NBA logos and more importantly NBA data in the hotel’s sports books. The NBA boss thinks that sports betting will increase interest in his product, basketball games.
Whether the partnership between MGM and the NBA opens the door for an expansion or relocated…