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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NBA commissioner Adam Silver has once again expressed his support for daily fantasy sports, saying Monday that he believes they should be regulated.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CMy view is that daily fantasy should be a regulated industry in New York and elsewhere, and I think ultimately that should be a decision for the voters,\u201D Silver told FiveThirtyEight\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Hot Takedown podcast.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silver became the first head of a major sport to provide extensive commentary on the recent daily fantasy sports controversy, when he called for regulation of the online games in October.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201C[The NBA is] not considering withdrawing or backing off our relationship with the industry,\u201D Silver told ESPN\u2019s &lt;em&gt;Outside the Lines&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;in October. \u201CIt\u2019s something that we\u2019re monitoring very closely. And it\u2019s something that we\u2019re deeply engaged in on the broader subject of daily fantasy-slash-sports betting.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last month,&amp;nbsp;New York\u2019s attorney general Eric&amp;nbsp;Schneiderman&amp;nbsp;determined daily fantasy sites such as DraftKings and&amp;nbsp;FanDuel qualified as illegal gambling entities,&amp;nbsp;and thus, ordered them to stop accepting bets from residents of the state.&amp;nbsp;Both daily fantasy sports operators are scheduled for an appeals hearing on Jan. 4.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Silver previously called for regulation of legal sports betting in a&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;editorial&amp;nbsp;last year, before which he spearheaded a deal between the NBA and&amp;nbsp;FanDuel.\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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