The worlds of the NBA and professional poker collided last month when Portland Trail Blazers Coach Chauncey Billips got embroiled in a scandal wherein celebrities would lure players to rigged, private poker parties wherein unwitting participants would get fleeced. Billups was suspended by the NBA and replaced as Portland’s head coach in the wake of his arrest.

Writing for The Sporting News, journalist and former professional poker player Stephen Noh described the process and atmosphere surrounding these private games. In the process, he suggested that private games of all stripes—clean and loaded—are not uncommon and that not all invitations are created equal.

For the most part, Noh’s article focused on attempts to play with another NBA Head Coach, Tyronn Lue of the Los Angeles Clippers.

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