I was watching the blazers on league pass last night feeling happy for Chauncey….man did I misread that guy.
Really hope Chauncey wasn’t that dumb. I always liked him. After the previous probes and arrests of players, I am shocked there’d still be players/coaches dumb enough to participate in these schemes. You’re already millionaires. What’s an extra 10-50k going to do for you? At the risk of losing it all and your freedom.
I mean, our President apparently is worth well over $5B, and yet his privately held company was convicted of tax fraud trying to save a few million on payroll taxes and getting federal loans. The prosecutor in that case is now being charged federally over falsifying a mortgage application that would have saved her about $800 in interest per year. The former director of the FBI is being charged with sharing insider/confidential information with friends for zero financial gain. If billions of dollars are not enough for the leader of the free world to avoid the temptation of questionably illegal dealings and practices, seems like we don't have much of a leg to stand on in criticizing and prosecuting someone that is worth over a hundred times less for taking on a side hustle as well.
This is the wildest part of the NBA gambling stuff. It doesn’t seem like it would be worth the risk, but you have to factor in that so many of these guys can’t manage money. Literally broke getting the checks they get. That being said, I wouldn’t have guessed Chauncey wohld be in that group, and maybe he’s not.
Sounds like they were scamming just for the sport it it. The thrill is getting over on the system. Kind of like seeing someone completely heathy using their mom's handicap pass to park at the handicap space at the gym, but this is how they do it on a multi-millionaire level.
perhaps, but that just makes them even dumber if you’re gonna do crime, at least be smart about it They didn’t think a bunch of prop bets on a random player like Terry Rozier wouldn’t get flagged as abnormal? Then Terry Rozier only plays 9 minutes that game so all those bets on the under get cashed out. It’s too obvious like the dummies who were committing health insurance fraud against the NBA…they didn’t even try to be incognito with the crime and were being so stupid if I was the judge I would’ve given them all at least 20 years for 1st degree dumbassery if you’re gonna commit crime, at least try Chauncey Billups being involved with the mafia is wild tho
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46695228/sources-terry-rozier-arrested-part-gambling-inquiry "Also, though Billups was not named in the sports betting indictment, the description of a coconspirator who allegedly told a bettor that a number of Trail Blazers players would miss a March 2023 game had a playing and coaching career that matches Billups." Looks like Billups wasn't only setting up fish to lose at rigged poker games for the mob. He was also tipping gamblers off which Blazers players would not be playing ahead of time.
One thing on Rozier's side, looking at his game logs, is that he missed the remainder of the season (8 games), immediately after the game he took himself out of. That seems like an extreme to sell a fake injury. Not saying he's innocent but it seems odd. Maybe he told gamblers that he was injured but that he would try to play and make a quick exit, which would still be a big problem.
Brian Windhorst said the real reason Rozier missed the rest of the regular season is because the prop bets made on him were flagged immediately the day they were made and the NBA became aware and pulled him
Ok, so I'm from a pretty bad area where I live and these kinds of things it's less about what he's making, and more about what he owes. Chances are Billups is a gambler himself and whichever mobster he's in big for gave him an "easy way to clear your debts." That's typically how the non-criminal but seemingly wealthy people get caught up in that kind of scheme as a "conspirator." If Billups talks enough he'll probably get some kind of deal to get out of facing any huge punishment. All of these kinds of things is how you catch real criminals because the really bad stuff they do is usually the hardest to prove. (See: Al Capone's tax evasion charge.)
What if Jalen Green gets arrested? And then we find out the real reason for his inconsistencies was gambling. Cuz he sure looked like he was betting against us a lot.
Now whenever an NBA coach is blatantly tanking there will be people questioning whether or not there's some illegal bets involved.
Chauncey Billups is also implicated in a Damon Jones like scheme where knowledge of which Blazers player wasn’t gonna play a particular game was shared with bettors a head coach doing this is wild As a player, how can you ever trust the decisions he’s making?
what an idiot! https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/nba-lebron-james-sports-betting-gambling-info-indictment.html The indictment refers to an unidentified Player 3. The document says that Jones “was a teammate and coach of a prominent player,” who was Player 3. The indictment says that Jones, on the morning of a Feb. 9 game between the Lakers and the Milwaukee Bucks “sent a text message to Co-Conspirator 9, writing: ’Get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight before the information is out! [Player 3] is out tonight. Bet enough so Djones can eat ... now!” “At the time Jones provided this non-public information about Player 3 to Co-Conspirator 9, Player 3 was not ruled out on the NBA’s injury report for the” game, the indictment says. James ended up sitting out that Feb. 9 game with a lower-body injury, to his ankle The indictment says, “Due to a lower body injury, Player 3 did not play in the February 9 Game.”
