{"id":235841,"date":"2025-10-23T20:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235841\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:08:10","slug":"nba-coach-player-arrested-in-lucrative-illegal-gambling-tied-to-mob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235841\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA coach, player arrested in lucrative illegal gambling tied to mob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York | The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested on Thursday (Friday AEDT) along with more than 30 others over sprawling criminal schemes to rake in millions by rigging sports bets and poker games involving Mafia families, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Portland coach Chauncey Billups was charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games in Las Vegas, Miami, Manhattan and the Hamptons that were backed by La Cosa Nostra <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/italy-will-finally-build-a-bridge-to-sicily-after-2000-years-20250807-p5ml7a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">organised crime families.<\/a> Heat guard Terry Rozier is accused in a separate scheme to concoct fraudulent bets by exploiting insider information about NBA athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York | The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-235841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235841","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=235841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}