{"id":235037,"date":"2025-10-23T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235037\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:33:08","slug":"terry-rozier-chauncey-billups-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/235037\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bombshell illegal sports betting scheme <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/23\/sports\/lakers-raptors-hornets-trail-blazers-involved-in-nba-gambling-scandal-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">involving four NBA teams<\/a> and four Mafia crime families netted upwards of $7 million over two years, the FBI announced Thursday in a historic bust.<\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/23\/sports\/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chauncey Billups<\/a>, Miami Heat guard <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/23\/sports\/heats-terry-rozier-arrested-in-fbi-sports-gambling-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Terry Rozier<\/a> and former NBA player Damon Jones\u00a0are among those indicted in the stunning take down of two separate illegal gambling-related cases.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty one people \u2014 including members of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese mafia families, and coaches and players from the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trial Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers and Toronto Raptors \u2014 have been arrested in the scheme carried out between January 2022 and March 2024, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Follow live updates on the unfolding NBA gambling scandal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bombshell illegal sports betting scheme involving four NBA teams and four Mafia crime families netted upwards of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,22892,19215,10942,111259,459,111260,82,26574,886],"class_list":["post-235037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chauncey-billups","tag-gambling","tag-live-blogs","tag-mafia","tag-nba","tag-nba-gambling-scandal-2025","tag-sports","tag-terry-rozier","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}