Indictments against current and former NBA players, including a well-known head coach in the Basketball Hall of Fame, were unsealed on Thursday, in a pair of criminal cases that involved the coordination of Mafia families and professional athletes.

The charges were unveiled at a news conference in Brooklyn, New York, where Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, called the scale of the fraud "mind-boggling," adding that the schemes involved "tens of millions of dollars" in theft, fraud and robbery.

The investigation has been developing for years, coordinated by the FBI and the New York Police Department's Joint Organized Crime Task Force. But it exploded into public on Thursday morning when Terry Rozier, a guard for the Miami Heat, was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and Chauncey Billups, the

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