An ex-enforcer for the Gambino crime family thinks the Mafia could have “something” on Chauncey Billups — and the NBA coach may be as much of a victim as the gamblers he fleeced.

“For them to do this, they probably knew somebody and asked him for a favor . . . he’s got a wife he’s cheating on, they caught him sniffing coke, or whatever, they got him somehow,” John Alite theorized, though there is no public evidence to suggest he’s engaged in these behaviors.

Or the suspended 49-year-old Portland Trailblazers coach could have asked the mob for help , Alite suggested, and then found himself in over his head. 3

“Either they’re blackmailing him or he asked for a favor in the past . . . and they slowly use him and then they pull his neck, you know, they choke him a little and tell

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