Posted on 10/23/2025 7:52:07 AM PDT by bitt
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been charged in an alleged illegal poker scheme tied to organized crime, sources told the Post.
Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was charged as well, in a separate but related illegal gambling case, ABC reported.
Prosecutors and FBI Director Kash Patel are announcing further details about the alleged schemes at a press conference in Brooklyn on Thursday morning.
LA Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers involved in sports-rigging scheme: US attorney By Patrick Reilly Four NBA teams have been named as having games involved in the FBI's sweeping investigation into illegal gambling.
The Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trial Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers and Toronto Raptors were all named in the indictment, Joseph Nocella Jr., the US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, told reporters.
The multimillion-dollar scheme, which took place between January 2022 and March 2024, allegedly involved sharing non-public information with bettors, including when players would be sitting out games or would pull themselves early from games.
The teams themselves are not implicated in wrongdoing, but players and coaches -- both current and former -- are accused of providing "non-public information" to help insiders make successful prop bets on NBA games.
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“ Mob faction in-fighting?”
The Colombo family was the only one of the Five Families missing from this bust. I’m sure all the goombahs are whispering.
An employee for the Lakers (and LeBron friend) released inside info about a LeBron injury a few years ago, allowing someone(s) to win big on a prop bet related to LBJ’s over/under for that game.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nba/article-15220607/NBA-gambling-probe-LIVE-Kash-Patel.html
I detest college hoops and college football, etc.
Colleges are a bunch of sports factories pretending to be institutions of learning
If you listen close you can hear the NFL and MLB trying to find away to hide their crimes.
Pete Rose grew up in Cincinnati-borders the south. He was black on the inside. Joe Morgan once said “he’s one of us”.
Joe Jackson? Don’t know. In them days blacks didn’t play for the big bucks. Neither did whites, contributing to the scandal.
Seriously the Lakers were involved too, in what, betting on LOSING. They havent been good for YEARS trust me I know, Im a fan of the team and they have sucked donkey nuts since 2020
LeDouche has sciatica he cant play for a month, we should have gotten rid of his ass when we had the chance
Luka Doncic traded by Dallas to Lakers, and Dallas with a 1.8% odds “just happens” to get #1 draft pick Cooper Flag.
The Feebs always seem to go after the Wise Guys. They know there’ll be no trouble when the come to arrest them. The cartel guys or the Coney Island Russians. That’s a horse of a different color.
My good friend was a Nassau County cop. On a couple of occasions he, with detectives was there to arrest Junior Gotti. I asked what Gotti jr was like when he was arrested. My friend said, “ A gentleman. Always a gentleman.”
Interesting.
Anyone surprised?
I’m disgusted by how many conservatives follow sports.
Betting correlation with tattoos.
Imo,a lot of sport games are fixed....gambling is a huge business and tptb do not want results that don’t reward them..
I bet most the NBA is doing this BS.— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) October 23, 2025
Saw proof of that a few weeks ago when the NFL refs tried their best to kneecap the Bears when they played Washington.
>>”Not saying what the White Sox players did back then was right, but those were different times, when ball players weren’t paid very much.”
And the White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey (of Comiskey Park fame) had a reputation for underpaying his players, even for that time.
The Indianapolis Olympians folded because of gambling and two of their stars being caught in the match fixing scheme in 1953.
The NBA could take Charlotte’s franchise away and give it to Las Vegas under recommendation of the league. That’s one possibility because the team is the only franchise to have NEVER won a single playoff series in its 21 year history.
Yank their franchises
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