Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Damon Jones were arrested Thursday in connection with a federal investigation into illegal sports betting and rigged poker games back by Mafia.

Billups is charged in an indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said. Rozier and Jones are accused in a separate indictment of participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.

Here’s a look at the NBA figures involved:

Chauncey Billups

Billups, 49, was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2024. The Denver native played college ball at Colorado, then was the No. 3 pick by Boston in 1997. He al

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