Hours after Chauncey Billups was arrested as part of a pair of sprawling federal busts, his legal team has a message.

He won’t be backing down from the fight.

Billups, a Hall of Fame player and current head coach of the Trail Blazers, was one of three people with NBA ties and 31 overall who were arrested in connection with two alleged schemes , one that involved rigged poker games and the other that included insider sports betting tips.

Heat guard Terry Rozier and former player and coach Damon Jones were also arrested as part of the bombshell cases.

Billups and Jones, federal prosecutors allege, were two of the “face cards” used in the Mafia-tied poker rigging scheme that sought to attract “fish” in order to get them to spend big money.

The ring allegedly used technology, including

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