New York: Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the mafia, authorities said on Thursday.

Rozier is accused in participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, officials said. Billups is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said.

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier looks up court during the last seconds of the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Chicago Bulls in March. Credit: AP

The indictment of Rozier and others says there are nine unnamed co-conspirator

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