The NBA ’s regular season tipped off on Tuesday night. By Thursday morning, few people were talking about the games.

At a Thursday morning press conference, FBI Director Kash Patel announced 31 arrests in two separate gambling schemes, which may define the off-court conversation around the league this year. Among those detained are Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups, a former star player and current coach of the Portland Trail Blazers,

The first scheme is fairly straightforward, and doesn’t come as much of a surprise for hardcore basketball fans. It allegedly involved six people, including Rozier and former Cleveland Cavalier Damon Jones, and was active between December 2022 and March 2024. During that period, the gambling ring would allegedly bet on “inside, non-pu

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