NBA gambling scandal live updates: Four
teams named in bombshell FBI press conference
Posted By: Mercedes44, 10/23/2025 10:53:25 AM
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in a bombshell alleged illegal poker scheme tied to organized crime that netted upwards of $7 million. Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was charged as well, in a separate but related illegal gambling case. Thirty one people — including members of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese mafia families, and coaches and players from the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trial Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers and Toronto Raptors — have been arrested in the scheme carried out between January 2022 and March 2024,
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Heat’s Rozier and Trail Blazers’ Billups
among dozens arrested in gambling probe
tied to the Mafia 13 replies
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Rozier is accused in participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, officials said. Billups is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said.
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Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was charged as well, in a separate but related illegal gambling case.
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Zohran Mamdani on his ‘tuchus’ if
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Gambino. Bonanno. Genovese. Lucchese.
Meet the Mafia families in the NBA gambling scandal 19 replies
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Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was charged as well, in a separate but related illegal gambling case.
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