Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones were arrested Thursday in connection with a federal investigation into illegal sports betting and rigged poker games back by Mafia.
Billups is charged in an indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said. Rozier and Jones are accused in a separate indictment of participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.