The arrest of Chauncey Billups in a sprawling gambling investigation shook up the NBA — and his hometown.

Billups is the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, but he’s known in Colorado as “The King of Park Hill” and a former CU Boulder and Denver Nuggets basketball player.

“There’s a lot of disbelief,” said Leon Kelly, the local minister and anti-violence activist, who has known Billups since he was a middle-schooler.

Kelly had heard rumors on Wednesday night that news might break about Billups, but only learned on Thursday that he had been arrested alongside more than 30 other people in an investigation that spans the nation and the world. Also arrested was Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

“We’re seeing all over the headlines — our neighborhood hero, champion, standard bearer,” said Jef

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