NBA coach and Hall of Fame member Chauncey Billups is charged with luring high-stakes poker players to games he knew were fixed, while veteran NBA forward Terry Rozier is accused of faking an injury and sitting on the bench to help bettors win thousands of dollars in 2023.

But do prosecutors have strong cases against them?

Proving those separate cases in New York federal court will require evidence of criminal intent by the two, not just unflattering allegations, legal experts told The Associated Press after reviewing blockbuster indictments released Thursday.

The indictment against Billups, 49, reads like a movie script, outlining how poker games were played on tables with hidden X-ray capability to read cards and rigged shuffling machines. The court document, however, doesn’t say how

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