Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups and NBA
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The NBA world had a lot to digest on Thursday after the FBI arrested several individuals, including Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups.
Big-money bettors lost millions of dollars in a rigged poker scheme, according to legal documents released Oct. 23.
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"Chauncey told somebody that Dame wasn't going to play" - Windhorst explains what Billups is being accused of aside from illegal poker games
Early reports suggested that Billups was accused of participating in illegal poker games, but as the day progressed and the indictment was made public, it was revealed that Chauncey was also charged as part of an unlawful sports betting scheme that included Damon Jones and Terry Rozier.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was charged Thursday with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million.
The attorney representing Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups released a statement on Thursday night after the NBA Hall of Famer was arrested and accused of rigging poker games for the mafia.