{"id":1289,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1289","headline":"NBA signs on with Kalshi and Polymarket as preferred prediction markets","dek":"The league also struck a deal with a federal regulator and expanded its DraftKings partnership to include prediction markets.","body":"The NBA announced Monday it is partnering with prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, naming both as the league's \"preferred prediction market partners.\" The agreements also include a deal with a federal agency tasked with regulating those exchanges.\n\nThe league says the arrangement provides \"significant integrity protections for NBA-related markets,\" including limits on what can be offered on the exchanges, transparency around suspicious user activity, and a ban on league and team personnel trading on markets tied to league events. Kalshi and Polymarket will also carry \"information-sharing obligations relating to investigations and suspicious trading,\" according to the NBA.\n\nThe deal gives Kalshi and Polymarket rights to use NBA intellectual property, including in their apps and marketing materials, and both companies will receive official league data through Sportradar, the NBA's data distribution partner. The WNBA is not automatically covered under the commercial agreement; prediction-market platforms would need separate deals for WNBA rights and IP.\n\nThe NBA is also expanding its existing partnership with DraftKings to include a prediction-market offering. The league has previously used similar safeguards with its sportsbook partners and has pointed to cases where that system flagged problems.","published_at":"2026-10-26T21:35:31.457639+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA strikes deals with prediction markets, with eye on integrity and regulations","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-strikes-deals-prediction-markets-141150268.html"},{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"NBA announces Kalshi, Polymarket partnerships","url":"https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/50280364/nba-prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-partnership"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7723134/2026/10/26/nba-kalshi-polymarket-agreement-prediction-markets/"},{"outlet":"Front Office Sports","publisher":"Front Office Sports","title":"NBA Tips Off Prediction-Market Era With Kalshi, Polymarket","url":"https://frontofficesports.com/article/nba-tips-off-prediction-market-era-with-kalshi-polymarket/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA Tips Off Prediction-Market Era With Kalshi, Polymarket","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-tips-off-prediction-market-140000205.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA Partners With Prediction Markets, Kalshi And Polymarket","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-partners-prediction-markets-kalshi-163939097.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA announces new partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-announces-partnership-prediction-markets-175630980.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NBA inks deal with Kalshi and Polymarket, citing safeguards","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nba-inks-deal-kalshi-polymarket-213454032.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Another U.S. pro sports league partners with prediction markets","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/another-u-pro-sports-league-222611229.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://frontofficesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-04-22T150948Z_420380304_RC2FUKAUDFTM_RTRMADP_3_POLYMARKET-RESULTS-scaled.jpg?quality=80&w=1024","credit":"Front Office Sports","width":1024},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}