{"id":350104,"date":"2025-12-17T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350104\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:43:07","slug":"nba-will-look-into-granting-relief-to-heat-over-rozier-commissioner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/350104\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA will look into granting relief to Heat over Rozier, commissioner says"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2014 The NBA is not sure how long the various investigations and legal processes surrounding gambling charges faced by Miami guard Terry Rozier<\/a>, Portland coach and Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Chauncey Billups and others will take to be completed, Commissioner Adam Silver said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But the league will look into the possibility of giving Miami some sort of \u201csatisfactory relief,\u201d Silver added, though he stopped short of saying such a move would be possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an unprecedented situation,\u201d Silver said.<\/p>\n

It’s a multi-layered issue for the league and the Heat, given that Rozier’s $26.6 million salary takes up about 17 per cent of the team’s cap space \u2014 and that the team still owes Charlotte a first-round pick in either 2027 or 2028 to satisfy the terms of the trade that brought Rozier to Miami.<\/p>\n

Rozier pleaded not guilty\u00a0earlier this month to wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges stemming from accusations that he\u00a0helped some friends win bets\u00a0that revolved around his statistical performance in a game played in March 2023, when he was with Charlotte. Rozier is free on $3 million bond and isn\u2019t expected back in court until March, and he remains on unpaid leave from the Heat.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Rozier informed the bettors that he intended to leave the game against the\u00a0New Orleans Pelicans\u00a0early with a supposed injury, allowing gamblers to place wagers earning them tens of thousands of dollars. Rozier played the first nine minutes and 36 seconds of the game before leaving, citing a foot issue. He did not play again that season and was subsequently traded to the Heat.<\/p>\n

Rozier isn\u2019t receiving his pay, but his salary is still on the Heat’s books and is being sent to an interest-bearing account pending resolution of his case or some other agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to try to work something through, work this out with them,\u201d Silver said. \u201cBut there\u2019s no obvious solution here. I would just say that there\u2019s no doubt at the moment they have a player that can’t perform services for them. … Obviously, he hasn\u2019t been convicted of anything yet either \u2014 but this is an unfortunate circumstance. Sometimes there\u2019s these unique events and maybe sometimes they require a unique solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Billups also pleaded not guilty last month to charges related to a\u00a0separate scheme\u00a0to fix high-stakes, Mafia-backed poker games. Rozier, Billups and former NBA guard Damon Jones were among more than 30 people \u2014 including several Mafia figures \u2014 arrested in October as part of a sprawling\u00a0federal takedown\u00a0of illegal gambling operations linked to pro sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The NBA is not sure how long the various investigations and legal processes surrounding gambling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-350104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350104","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=350104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}