Chauncey Billups, Hall of Fame NBA player and Portland Trail Blazers head coach, and Terry Rozier, Miami Heat guard, were arrested along with over 30 others in federal gambling investigations involving the NBA and Mafia-linked crimes.

The probes focus on two separate, yet related, illegal operations: an insider sports betting scheme and a nationwide rigging of poker games.

The big picture: FBI Director Kash Patel announced that these schemes generated tens of millions of dollars in illegal profits stemming from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, and gambling offenses. • Rozier allegedly provided non-public information on upcoming NBA games to criminal associates, facilitating bets placed by straw bettors with an unfair advantage. • One example cited was from March 2023, when Ro

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