NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and MGM Grand CEO Jim Murren on Tuesday announced a partnership that makes MGM the official “gaming partner” of the NBA — a deal that entitles MGM to market that status, as well as to signify that the company’s properties have access to NBA “official data.”
But it was later in the press conference in midtown Manhattan that arguably the bigger news dropped: Murren mentioned MGM’s Borgata property in Atlantic City and said that “at the end of this week we’ll be taking mobile bets from Borgata and Play MGM in New Jersey.”