{"id":235233,"date":"2025-10-23T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235233\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T14:25:07","slug":"trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-heat-guard-terry-rozier-reportedly-arrested-by-fbi-for-alleged-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235233\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Heat guard Terry Rozier reportedly arrested by FBI for alleged illegal gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was reportedly arrested Thursday as part of an FBI sports-gambling probe, according to multiple sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Multiple individuals, including Billups and Rozier, were arrested in connection with the probe, according to ABC News. Arrests Thursday appear to be linked to two separate illegal gambling-related cases<\/a>, per NBC News.<\/p>\n

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Billups was reportedly charged in “an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia<\/a>,” per ABC News. His involvement is reportedly not related to games he coached, per NBC News.<\/p>\n

Rozier, 31, had been under investigation<\/a> for his actions during a 2022-23 NBA game, when he was still a member of the Charlotte Hornets. Prior to a game against the New Orleans Pelicans that season, a bettor placed nearly $14,000 on unders involving Rozier’s statistics. Rozier left the game after just nine minutes due to a foot injury, causing his under bets to win, per documents acquired by ESPN.<\/p>\n

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The investigation into Rozier reportedly focused on whether he “manipulated his performance<\/a> as part of an illegal sports betting scheme,” the Wall Street Journal wrote in January.<\/p>\n

Despite the investigation, Rozier was preparing to play for the Heat during the 2025-26 NBA season. The veteran guard battled a hamstring injury ahead of the team’s season opener Wednesday, but was reportedly available to play in the contest.<\/p>\n

He did not make an appearance in the team’s 125-121 loss<\/a> to the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n

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In September, the Hornets canceled a sports betting theme night promotion<\/a> that was supposed to take place when Rozier and the Heat came to town in March.<\/p>\n

The probe into Rozier was previously said to be linked to the one that resulted in Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter being banned from the NBA<\/a> for life. Porter was investigated after unusual betting activity came in on his unders for two games<\/a>. Porter left one of those contests with an injury and another with an illness, causing a number of those unders to hit.<\/p>\n

An NBA investigation determined Porter leaked “confidential information to sports bettors,” limited his playing time in certain games for betting purposes and bet on NBA games, leading to his lifetime ban.<\/p>\n

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FBI director Kash Patel will hold a press conference<\/a> at 10 a.m. ET to discuss the arrests made in the investigation.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was reportedly arrested Thursday as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,5670,27164,7810,23234,141134,7223,590,20513,7210,12985,4621,85,23371,41165,141133,17602],"class_list":["post-235233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-chauncey-billups","tag-fbi","tag-illegal-gambling","tag-jontay-porter","tag-miami-heat","tag-nba","tag-nbc-news","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-orlando-magic","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting","tag-terry-rozier","tag-tom-winter","tag-toronto-raptors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}