Chauncey Billups’ future with the Portland Trail Blazers is precarious at best following his arrest Thursday for allegedly participating in rigged poker games. The Blazers and the NBA placed Billups on leave and assistant coach Tiago Splitter has been named interim head coach.

However shocking, Chauncey Billups' role in the alleged gambling scandal is not the first legal trouble he has found himself in.

Former Detroit Pistons star Chauncey Billups is facing charges in connection with a scheme to rig poker games that were backed by Mafia families, officials said.

Billups averaged 17.0 points on 42.4% shooting (40.0% 3-pointers), 6.3 assists and a steal during his first tenure in Detroit.

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups can be seen in a photo from 2019 playing poker with two people he was charged alongside Thursday in a new bombshell indictment accusing them of

According to the FBI, Billups and former Cavs guard Damon Jones were used by the Mafia as “Face Cards” to lure high rollers to play poker. The indictment against him states those games date back to 2019 involving Billups.