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Police chiefs in Salt Lake City and Houston bet dinner and a hat on outcome of Jazz-Rockets series

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown speaks before the annual daffodil planting ceremony outside the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building in support of YWCA's Week Without Violence, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.

Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown speaks before the annual daffodil planting ceremony outside the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building in support of YWCA's Week Without Violence, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015.

By https://s3.amazonaws.com/arc-authors/sltrib/9fd20581-ecc1-4511-9797-f4be91f855e4.jpg Nate Carlisle
 | April 30, 2018, 10:06 a.m.
| Updated: 10:23 a.m.

When the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets decide the winner of their best-of-seven playoff series, it’s going to cost a police chief a steak dinner and some embarrassing looks.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo over Twitter on Saturday offered a challenge to his counterpart in Salt Lake City, Mike Brown. Acevedo wagered a steak dinner that the Rockets would win the NBA Western Conference semifinal series.

Brown accepted and increased the bet. The loser also had to wear the winning team’s hat, while in police uniform, for a day. Acevedo accepted.

The two chiefs know each other through some national policing organizations. Acevedo took the early lead Sunday when the Rockets beat the Jazz 110-96.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, center, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, far right, join demonstrators during a "March for Our Lives" protest for gun legislation and school safety Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Houston. Turner has told several thousand people demonstrating for stricter gun control that adults have a responsibility to stand up and protect all children. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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