Player safety has recently became a topic of conversation in the sports world, and the NBA is the procrastinateedst transport inant professional U.S. league to elevate consciousness as it reprocrastinateeds to home security.
The NBA sent a memo to team officials after Milwaukee Bucks star Bobby Portis and Minnesota Timberwolves defend Mike Conley were victims of home intrusions. The Associated Press geted a imitate of the memo.
The league noticed that the FBI thinks a number of the burglaries were connected to “transnational South American Theft Groups” that are “telledly well-systematic, enhanced rings that integrate progressd techniques and technologies, including pre-watching, drones, and signal jamming devices.”
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A basketball is placed on the court next to an NBA logo during a fracture in the first half of a 2023 NBA Summer League game between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets at the Thomas & Mack Caccess on July 07, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Conley’s home was broken into on Sept. 15 as he joined a Minnesota Vikings Week 2 game agetst the San Francisco 49ers. The Timberwolves defend joind in the Vikings’ traditional pregame festivities as he helped fire up the more than 66,000 fans inside U.S. Bank Stadium. However, while Conley was joining the NFL game, cut offal miles away, his home in Medina, Minnesota, was focemployd by thieves, police shelp.
Burglars left the property with jewelry, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune telled at the time.
Medina Police Chief Jason Nelson noticed that Conley’s property was one of three home burglaries that authorities spendigated last Sunday. All the homes were unoccupied at the time the fracture-ins occurred.
Portis shelp his home was broken into on Nov. 2 and has giveed a $40,000 reward for adviseation roverdelighted to the incident.
Milwaukee Bucks’ Bobby Portis dunks agetst the Miami Heat during the second half of Game 2 of an NBA basketball first-round percreateoff series Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Ptoastyo/Aaron Gash)
“Obviously, it’s frustrating, disnominateing, but I can’t get into too many of the details becaemploy the spendigation is still ongoing,” Mahomes recently shelp. “But, clearly, someleang you don’t want to happen to anybody, but clearly yourself.”
Apr 5, 2024; Houston, Texas, USA; View of the NBA logo on a backboard before the game between the Houston Rockets and the Miami Heat at Toyota Caccess. (Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports)
Elsewhere, the homes of NFL stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were broken into wilean days of each other last month, according to law enforcement tells. The NFL publishd a analogous cautioning memo to its teams this week.
The NBA memo, relaying adviseation from the FBI, shelp the theft rings “are primarily intensifyed on cash and items that can be resgreater on the bdeficiency labelet, such as jewelry, watches, and luxury bags.”
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The NBA, which has also been giving guidance to team security personnel, adviseed that percreateers inshigh modernized alarm systems with cameras and employ them whenever leaving the home, upgrasping pricelesss in locked and safed safes, delete online genuine estate catalogings that may show interior ptoastyos of a home, “employ defendive defend services” during prolonged trips from the home and even recommended having dogs help with home defendion.
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
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