Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people, including Portland Trail Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups, in two criminal cases alleging sprawling schemes to rake in millions by rigging sports bets and poker games involving Mafia families, federal authorities said.

Billups is charged in an indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by La Cosa Nostra crime families, federal authorities said. Rozier is accused in a separate case of participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.

Both men face money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy charges and were expected to make initial court appearances later Thursday.

In the first case, six defendants are accused of

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