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Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones were arrested Thursday morning as part of FBI probes into alleged illegal gambling with ties to La Cosa Nostra crime families.

The allegations come despite both Billups and Rozier having made over $100 million each in career earnings, while Jones has made around $20 million.

With that much money made, it is fair to wonder how the NBA figures allegedly got wrapped up in the scandal.

“How could they possibly get into a situation where they would do this? Their lifetime income was somewhere in the vicinity of $150 million. For most people, you couldn’t spend $150 million in your lifetime,” Notre Dame finance professor Richard Sheehan said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital.

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