Members of Congress wrote to Adam Silver asking him to provide more details about the NBA's relationship with sports betting. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Members of Congress wrote to NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Friday, asking him to provide a briefing by October 31 relating to the gambling scandal that engulfed the league earlier this week.

Sent by a bipartisan group of six representatives on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, the letter calls on Silver to further explain the NBA’s relationship with sports betting to “assist the Committee in its oversight.”

The committee’s intervention came the day after Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former NBA journeyman Damon Jones were named among 34 people indict

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