The NBA gambling scandal that rocked the league appears to be cutting deeper and deeper with each passing day.<\/p>\n
After the FBI arrested Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups for his alleged involvement in a rigged poker game scandal<\/a> that included X-ray vision tables and altered shuffling machines spearheaded by the syndicated crime families, investigative journalist Pablo Torre is now reporting that Clippers head coach Tyrone Lue was involved in one of the allegedly rigged poker games.<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to multiple sources with direct knowledge of that April 2019 game in Vegas that we\u2019ve been discussing \u2014 the same one where Billups was allegedly profiting off of an extremely suspicious hand and a rigged shuffling machine \u2014 another \u2018face card\u2019 in attendance was current Los Angeles Clippers head coach Ty Lue, who was at the time an assistant coach for the Clippers,\u201d Torre said on his \u201cPablo Torre Finds Out\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n Tyronn Lue called Chauncey Billups his brother, whom he has known since he was in his teens. Getty Images<\/p>\n Torre dove into Lue\u2019s seemingly incredibly close ties to Billups.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, sources say that Lue did not play at the same table as Chauncey Billups \u2014 the man Lue recently called his best friend, and also the man whom Lue would hire as a Clippers assistant himself the very next year, 2020, once Lue got his current head job,\u201d Torre continued on his podcast.<\/p>\n After Billups\u2019 arrest was announced, Lue defended his friend, calling Billups \u201cmy brother.\u201d <\/p>\n Chauncey Billups [right] and Tyronn Lue [left] exchange pleasantries on Oct. 25, 2021. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cI know who he is as a person,\u201d Lue told reporters<\/a> early this week. \u201cI\u2019ve been with him since I was 17 years old.\u201d <\/p>\n