8, 2024, when it becomes officially legal. 14, 2023: North Carolina regulators announce that sports betting will not arrive on Jan. 17, 2023: bet365 becomes the official sportsbook of the Charlotte Hornets, marking the first North Carolina professional sports team to establish such a partnership. 20, 2023: Covers' Geoff Zochodne outlines what online sportsbooks will offer in North Carolina when legalization arrives in 2024. Read on to learn about critical moments in North Carolina's legal sports gambling history: Cooper signing HB 347 into law, legal online sports betting is officially on the horizon and is expected to launch in 2024. Although retail North Carolina sports betting was legalized in July 2019, it wasn’t until March 18, 2021, that the state took its first legal wager.
