Federal prosecutors say Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups participated in rigged poker games, using his celebrity status to attract gamblers to play in fixed games.

Billups, 49, was among more than 30 people indicted Thursday in two separate cases involving NBA figures .

Billups, who was scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon, is accused of money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy in the alleged 2019 poker scheme.

Someone matching his credentials is also accused of providing insider information in a separate sports-betting scheme in 2023, though Billups is not among the named defendants facing charges in that case.

Billups’ lawyer Chris Heywood said the Trail Blazers coach was arrested around 5 a.m. on Thursday at his Lake Oswego home, but he declined further

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