It took just two days after tipoff for the NBA to get rocked by one of the most shocking and existential criminal scandals in the league’s 80-year history. On Thursday morning, the feds did a sweep that rounded up a whopping 34 people in connection with two separate FBI probes: the first, into sports-betting schemes that benefited from inside information; the second, into fixed poker games backed by members of four New York–based Mafia families . A few of those implicated are high-profile basketball faves: Hall of Famer and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, and former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones. Billups and Rozier, who were arrested in their teams’ respective states, have since been released on bail under “ substantial

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