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Related: About this forumTrail Blazers Coach Chauncey Billups Arrested As Part of FBI Gambling Probe
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been arrested as part of the FBI's ongoing federal gambling probe, according to a report from ESPN's Shams Charania.
Billups became the second-known individual associated with the NBA to be arrested on Thursday morning. News broke earlier on Thursday that Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier had also been taken into custody.
Two law enforcement sources tell NBC News' Tom Winter that the arrest is not related to games Billups coached. In addition, ABC News reported that Billups's arrest is tied to an illegal poker operation associated with the mafia.
https://www.si.com/nba/chauncey-billups-arrested-fbi-gambling-probe
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(9,033 posts)I can't find the post now? So it's ok but not ok. Sports are nutz.
But than most things are.
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(24,508 posts)in Chauncey's basement. Distract, distract....
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(16,148 posts)"The mafia had preexisting control over non-rigged, illegal poker games around New York City," U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella said Thursday. "As a result, they also became involved in the rigged poker games, helping to organize the games and taking a cut of the proceedings -- and working to enforce the collection of debts."
Billups, however, might also be tied to sharing insider information with bettors as Blazers coach. Though he was not named in the Rozier indictment, a person referred to as "Co-Conspirator 8" matches Billups' description: "a resident of Oregon" and "an NBA player from approximately 1997 through 2014, and an NBA coach since at least 2021." The indictment alleges that Co-Conspirator 8 supplied information about the Blazers resting key players ahead of a March 24, 2023, contest against the Bulls before it was public. Damian Lillard, Jusuf Nurkic, Jerami Grant and Anfernee Simons all sat out in a game the Blazers lost by 28 points.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/nba-illegal-gambling-investigation-explained/