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Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty Monday to charges stemming from a scheme to help lure unsuspecting gamblers to a mob-run poker game they didn’t know was fixed.

The Hall of Famer, wearing a gray suit, appeared with his attorney in federal court in Brooklyn along with 30 other members of the scheme.

“We enter a plea of not guilty your honor,” said his attorney Marc Mukase.

Billups, Portland’s head coach since 2021, is charged in an elaborate scheme in which marks were lured to participate in rigged poker games in part with the opportunity to play alongside the five-time NBA All-Star as well as others.

Billups, U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said at a news conference last month, knowingly served as the so-called “face card,” to attract the

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