What happened

The Justice Department Thursday announced the arrest of more than 30 people, including Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, as part of a sweeping multiyear investigation into gambling and sports-rigging schemes involving NBA players and New York mafia organizations.

Who said what

“This is the insider-trading saga for the NBA,” FBI Director Kash Patel said at a news conference in Brooklyn. U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella called it “one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States.”

Prosecutors accused Rozier and five codefendants of “exploiting private information about players to win bets on NBA games,” The Associated Press said, while Billups and 3

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