Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is denying wrongdoing after being arrested by the FBI in a criminal gambling probe.

“Anyone who knows Chauncey Billups knows he is a man of integrity; men of integrity do not cheat and defraud others,” the coach’s attorney, Chris Heywood, said in a statement, according to Fox Sports.

Billups’ attorney added that the coach “has never and would never gamble on basketball games, provide insider information, or sacrifice the trust of his team and the League, as it would tarnish the game he has devoted his entire life to.”

Billups, 49, was arrested at his home in Oregon on Thursday and was among some 30 others charged in the FBI’s “Operation Royal Flush” case, which was launched during the Biden administration to track a gambling syndica

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