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Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former cleveland cavaliers Assistant Damon Jones was arrested Thursday in connection with a federal investigation into illegal sports betting and rigged poker games mafia,
Billups has been charged with orchestrating an elaborate scheme to rig underground poker games backed by Mafia families, authorities said. Rozier and Jones are accused in a separate indictment of participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using a private insider nba Information
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chauncey billups
Billups, 49, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2024. The Denver native played college ball at Colorado when he was the No. 3 pick. boston in 1997. He also played for Toronto, Denver (two stints), Minnesota, Detroit (two stints), New York Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers in a 17-year playing career.
Billups was a five-time All-Star and won a championship with Detroit in 2004, when he was named NBA Finals MVP.
On November 16, 2020, Billups was named a Clippers assistant on coach Tyronn Lue’s staff. Billups was hired as Portland’s coach in 2021 and signed a multi-year extension with the Trail Blazers on April 13. Billups compiled a 117–211 coaching record this season.
Billups was known as Mr. Big Shot during his playing career and won the NBA’s sportsmanship award, the Joe Dumars Trophy, while playing for his hometown Nuggets in 2009.
terry rosier
Rozier, 30, was raised primarily by his mother as his father, Terry Rozier Sr., has been in prison for most of the younger Rozier’s life. Rozier, a native of Youngstown, Ohio, was a standout guard at Louisville, the 16th overall pick by the Boston Celtics in 2015.
Rozier was traded charlotte on July 6, 2019 and flourished with the Hornets. He averaged 18 points in the 2019–20 season, 20.4 points the following season, and career highs of 21.1 points in 2022–23.
On January 23, 2024, Rozier was traded to Miami in exchange for Kyle Lowry. In the 2024–25 season, Rozier averaged 10.6 points while playing in 64 games, including 23 starts, for Miami.
In 2018, Rozier became only the second player in NBA history to record a triple-double in his first start when he scored 17 points with 11 rebounds and 10 assists in Boston’s 103–73 win over the Knicks.
Rozier’s game for Charlotte against New Orleans on March 23, 2023 is in question. He played the first 9 minutes and 36 seconds of the first quarter before exiting and did not play again in that game or the final eight games of the season. Charlotte wasn’t in the playoff race, so it didn’t seem particularly unusual that Rozier was shut down. However, posts from that 2023 game are still online suggesting that some bettors were angry with the sportsbooks. Several people posted on social media that there was something “unexplained” regarding prop bets involving Rozier’s stats for that night.
Prop is a type of bet that allows gamblers to bet on whether a player will exceed a certain statistical number, such as whether or not the player will finish a certain total of points, rebounds, assists and more.
Rozier was in uniform when the Heat played the Magic in Orlando on Wednesday evening, although he did not play in the game.
damon jones
According to the indictment, Jones, 49, was an unofficial assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2022-23 when he allegedly engaged in the betting scheme. He has been coaching since at least 2014, after finishing an 11-year NBA playing career.
He is from Galveston, Texas, and played for Houston in college before linking up with NBA teams in New Jersey, Boston, Golden State, Dallas, Vancouver, Detroit, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Miami, and Cleveland.
Jones averaged 11.6 points with Miami in the 2004–05 season, his only season with double-digit scoring.
Jones joined Cleveland’s coaching staff in 2014 as a shooting consultant. He was on Tyronn Lue’s Cleveland staff for the postseason in 2016 and was named a full-time assistant for the Cavaliers at the end of that year. He also worked as a TV analyst for ESPN in 2018.
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