On Thursday, the sports world faced one of its worst nightmares. The Justice Department announced the indictments of Chauncey Billups, the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a guard for the Miami Heat, on gambling-related charges.

Billups — along with 30 other defendants — was charged for his involvement in a Mafia scheme to rig illegal poker games in New York City and across the country. Rozier and five other defendants were charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies related to a scheme in which Rozier allegedly changed his in-game behavior to rig so-called prop bets.

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As the indictment defines it, a prop bet (short for proposition bet) is a bet “regarding the occurrence or nonoccurrence during a game of an event not directly affecting

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