HOUSTON — New Detroit Pistons forward Duncan Robinson doesn’t know all the details surrounding the federal investigations of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups. The arrest also included former NBA player Damon Jones. But he does know that Rozier is a friend, and he was “sad” to see his former Heat teammate arrested on Thursday. Rozier and Billups, a former Pistons great, were among the more than 30 people charged with participating in criminal cases alleging sprawling separate schemes to rig sports bets and poker games involving Mafia families, according to federal authorities. Rozier and Robinson played together for two seasons in Miami.

“It’s hard to see, like, omnipresent, the betting stuff is for all of us,” Robinson told The Detroit News

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