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Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones were all arrested separately Thursday morning as part of a federal gambling investigation, multiple<\/a> outlets<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat on Jan. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n Getty ImagesKey Facts<\/p>\n Rozier, a 10-year NBA veteran currently out with a hamstring injury, was reportedly arrested in Orlando Thursday. <\/p>\n Rozier and Jones, a former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach, are two of six people arrested and charged in connection to a basketball gambling scheme that included using inside information to place illegal bets, ABC News<\/a> reported citing unnamed law enforcement sources. <\/p>\n Billups was arrested in Oregon and has been charged in connection to a seperate illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, per ABC News.<\/p>\n FBI director Kash Patel and prosecutors with the Eastern District of New York are scheduled to hold a press conference at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday with more details. <\/p>\n This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n Get Forbes Breaking News Text Alerts:<\/strong>We\u2019re launching text message alerts so you’ll always know the biggest stories shaping the day\u2019s headlines. Text \u201cAlerts\u201d to (201) 335-0739<\/a>or sign up here: joinsubtext.com\/forbes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[162666,162667,67896,43497,3120,1260,62,8930,36442,99907,23884,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-chauncey-billups","9":"tag-federal-gambling-investigation","10":"tag-illegal-gambling","11":"tag-kash-patel","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-betting","16":"tag-sports-gambling","17":"tag-terry-rozier","18":"tag-trail-blazers","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115423787394804838","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}