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Chauncey Billups, Sophia Wei, and Saul Becher were indicted in the massive scheme. Obtained by NYPost<\/p>\n
The 49-year-old NBA Detroit Pistons champion allegedly tipped off a betting ring that his team was planning to tank a game against the Chicago Bulls on March 24, 2023 and that the Trail Blazers\u2019 best player wouldn\u2019t be playing, court papers allege.<\/p>\n
Billups was arrested in a separate scheme charging him with accepting payments from the mob to play in fixed poker games to help attract victims who wanted a chance to play with a former sports pro. Those victims were allegedly fleeced of millions in games they never had a chance of winning, prosecutors claim.<\/p>\n
Follow The Post\u2019s latest on the gambling scandal rocking the NBA:<\/p>\n
But the famous hoopster is also linked to a separate indictment also unsealed Thursday, accusing Miami Heat guard Terry Roszier \u2014 aka \u201cScary Terry\u201d \u2014 and Jones, and four others, of leaking secret insider information about NBA players and teams for sports betting.<\/p>\n
While Billups is not charged in the second indictment, he\u2019s described as a co-conspirator.<\/p>\n
In the second case, \u201cCo-Conspirator 8\u201d is described as someone who played in the NBA from 1997 through 2014 and who has also been a coach in the league since at least 2021.<\/p>\n
After Billups\u2019 alleged tip-off, the Blazers were smoked by the Bulls 124-96.<\/p>\n
Members of the scheme placed $132,000 in bets against the Blazers that night and walked away happy, an indictment alleges.<\/p>\n
Billups\u2019 agent declined to comment and hung up during a seconds-long call with The Post Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups apparently leaked insider info to gamblers that his team was planning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10377,6239,21,10378,9,11,10,9133,319],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-chauncey-billups","tag-mafia","tag-nba","tag-nba-gambling-scandal-2025","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}