Las Vegas bookmakers have helped uncover several point-shaving scandals over the years and have long acted as watchdogs for pro and college sports.

“We’d be the ones that suffered if it did happen here,” Westgate vice president of race and sports John Murray said. “We would be the ones, in the literal sense, paying out and losing money.”

Murray said he was “shocked” Thursday by reports that Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones were among more than 30 people arrested in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia.

The alleged fraud totaled “tens of millions of dollars,” FBI Director Kash Patel told r

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