NEW YORK (AP) — Former Louisville basketball star Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups are among 30 people charged Thursday in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said.

Rozier — who averaged 17 points per game for the 2014-15 Cardinals team that made the Elite Eight — is accused of concocting fraudulent bets by exploiting confidential information about NBA athletes and teams. Billups — a 2004 NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame — was charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games in Las Vegas, Miami, Manhattan and the Hamptons that were backed by La Cosa Nostra Crime families.

Both men face money laundering and w

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