Portland Trail Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups appears to be an unnamed co-conspirator identified in a criminal indictment as telling another man the team planned to intentionally lose a March 2023 game against the Chicago Bulls to improve the Trail Blazers' chances of getting a better pick in the NBA draft.

Details in the indictment describing the NBA playing and coaching career of "Co-Conspirator 8," who leaked the plan to tank the game, match those of Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The man who received the tip then shared that information with another man, who, with several others, placed bets with legal online bookmakers totaling about $100,000 that the Trail Blazers would lose the game, the indictment alleges.

The Blazers lost the game 124-96 after th

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