Trail Blazers’ Chauncey Billups, Heat’s Terry Rozier Arrested Amid Federal Gambling Probe

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested in relation to a federal investigation into unlawful playing.

Rozier was arrested Thursday morning at a lodge in Orlando after Miami’s highway matchup with the Magic, ESPN experiences. He didn’t play within the contest attributable to a coach’s determination.

Billups, who’s in his fifth season as head coach of Portland, was arrested in Oregon over an alleged “separate but related” unlawful betting operation, ABC News experiences. Billups coached within the Blazers’ house loss to the Timberwolves simply previous to being taken into custody.

Meanwhile, Damon Jones, who performed with LeBron James in Cleveland at factors throughout his prolonged tenure within the NBA, was additionally taken into custody on Thursday, in response to a number of experiences.

The Eastern District of New York and FBI director Kash Patel are slated to shed extra mild on the allegations in opposition to the NBAers at a information convention later Thursday morning.