PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The illegal gambling case alleging Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups’ involvement in a multimillion-dollar cheating scheme is raising new questions about the integrity of professional sports and the future of legalized betting.

Billups faces federal charges of wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors accuse him of participating in rigged poker games that used hidden cameras, marked cards and modified shufflers to cheat players out of roughly $7 million.

In a statement sent Thursday, Billups’ attorney, Chris Heywood, defended his client:

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity; men of integrity do not cheat and defraud others. To believe that Chauncey Billups did what the federal government is accusing him of is to

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