Currently in today's world the rules and regulations on gambling are very much up in the air. Last week when NBA Comissioner David Stern relaxed some of the rules that applied to league referees off court behaviors, it really raised some eyebrows. After the highly publicized scandal involving long time ref Tim Donaghy, a general investigation in the league found more than half of the NBA's refs in mild violatio of the rules on gambling.
But most of the violations involved everyhting from $5 lottery ticktes to sitting at low stake poker tables. In a league Board of Governers meeting Stern noted it is to easy to make rules on their (the refs) faith alone. However, the low stakes poker table Stern refers might have been the one held at the NBA's annual Officials Training Camp, where a poker game has long been one of the camp's social functions.
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