Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat star Terry Rozier have been arrested in connection to a federal gambling investigation.

Both Billups, 49, and Rozier, 31, were taken into custody on Thursday, October 23, authorities announced.

Billups was charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia. He was arrested in Oregon, where he coached the Trail Blazers season opening loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday, October 22.

Rozier, who was arrested in Miami, and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones were also charged in a separate but related illegal gambling case.

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