More than 30 people, including NBA head coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier , have been arrested as part of federal investigations into gambling and "sports rigging" operations linked to multiple major crime families, law enforcement leaders said Thursday.

"We are here in New York to announce a historic arrest across a wide, sweeping criminal enterprise that envelops both the NBA and La Cosa Nostra," FBI Director Kash Patel said at a news conference in Brooklyn, New York.

Billups, head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers , Rozier of the Miami Heat , and former NBA player Damon Jones were "taken into custody today," Patel said.

In a statement, the NBA said that Rozier 31, and Billups 49, "are being placed on immediate leave from their teams, and we will continue to coo

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