More than 30 people have been charged on Thursday, including Chauncey Billups , an NBA Hall of Fame player and head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a guard with the Miami Heat, in connection with two separate but related federal gambling investigations that involved the league and the Mafia.

The schemes – one of them focused on insider sports betting and another that rigged poker games nationwide – spanned years and involved tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and gambling, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a news conference in Brooklyn on Thursday.

Rozier was one of several National Basketball Association insiders who allegedly provided non-public information about upcoming games to their criminal partners, who

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