NEW YORK — Jaylen Brown believes the NBA has not done enough to protect players from the negative consequences of sports gambling.
Speaking one day after former Celtics teammate Terry Rozier was arrested as part of a sweeping, years-long federal investigation into alleged illegal sports betting activity, Brown said the NBA’s approach to gambling in recent years has hurt players and led to preventable problems.
“Me personally, that whole world was introduced a couple years ago, and I don’t think they took players into consideration, especially with the energy and the behavior that goes around gambling and how that directly correlates to players,” Brown said after Friday’s morning shootaround at Madison Square Garden. “We don’t benefit from any of the profits or anything like that, but we’

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