Terry Rozier arrested by FBI in sports gambling probe

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lol how did the NBA not discover this during their investigation?

Probably because the NBA isn't allowed to wiretap people and offer people deals to testify against others.

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The FBI is holding a press conference right now on the details around this morning's sports gambling bust.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. Current and former NBA players and coaches Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones have been arrested.

2. This was an illegal gambling and sports rigging operation that spanned years across 11 states. In total, 30 individuals have been arrested (13 mafia members).

3. The case involves La Cosa Nostra (the Italian mafia).

4. Charges include illegal gambling, wire fraud, and extortion.

5. There are two separate indictments. The first involves six defendants accused of participating in a sports corruption scheme that exploited insider information involving NBA players and teams. The defendants leveraged their connections to place prop bets based on confidential insider information, winning tens of thousands of dollars per bet.

The second indictment involves 31 defendants charged with participating in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. The FBI says they used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.

6. The two cases are separate, but there are three overlapping defendants, including former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.

8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.

9. Teams that were bet on during the sports gambling scheme include the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Raptors.

10. The rigged poker games occurred in the Hamptons, Miami, Las Vegas, and Manhattan.

11. The poker scheme targeted victims who were lured to participate in rigged poker games by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes. These athletes included Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones.

12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the "quarterback" — then sent that information to someone at the table.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

14. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquire a rigged shuffling machine.

15. The sports gambling investigation is called "Operation Nothing But Net," while the poker investigation is called "Operation Royal Flush."

16. The FBI has been working on this investigation for four years, with victims losing at least $7 million.

17. One specific victim lost at least $1.8 million.

18. The FBI reviewed thousands of hours of video evidence and executed more than two dozen search warrants.

These are just accusations at this point. I am just pointing out details from the FBI's investigation.

[Sixers in 4]

So chauncey rigged poker games to ensnare NBA players. I remember people wanting to give him slack what an absolute POS

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Help me understand how a guy who has made 135M in his career feels the need to do this.

Gambling is an addiction just like drugs and alcholol. Some dudes just can't help it.

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Someone posted it elsewhere nvm

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Right under league noses. Wow.

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No way these are the only two. Going to be interesting to see how deep the FBI goes

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So chauncey rigged poker games to ensnare NBA players. I remember people wanting to give him slack what an absolute POS

?? No. That's not the accusation. The accusation is that he got involved with a mob gambling ring where he was the famous "bait" they used to distract people from the con. eg come play in this high stakes poker game. Chauncey Billups is going to be there. And then while the victims are chatting up a famous nba player and coach, everyone else is getting cued in on what cards that guy is holding so they know how to bet.

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The FBI is holding a press conference right now on the details around this morning's sports gambling bust.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. Current and former NBA players and coaches Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones have been arrested.

2. This was an illegal gambling and sports rigging operation that spanned years across 11 states. In total, 30 individuals have been arrested (13 mafia members).

3. The case involves La Cosa Nostra (the Italian mafia).

4. Charges include illegal gambling, wire fraud, and extortion.

5. There are two separate indictments. The first involves six defendants accused of participating in a sports corruption scheme that exploited insider information involving NBA players and teams. The defendants leveraged their connections to place prop bets based on confidential insider information, winning tens of thousands of dollars per bet.

The second indictment involves 31 defendants charged with participating in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. The FBI says they used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.

6. The two cases are separate, but there are three overlapping defendants, including former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.

8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.

9. Teams that were bet on during the sports gambling scheme include the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Raptors.

10. The rigged poker games occurred in the Hamptons, Miami, Las Vegas, and Manhattan.

11. The poker scheme targeted victims who were lured to participate in rigged poker games by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes. These athletes included Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones.

12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the "quarterback" — then sent that information to someone at the table.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

14. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquire a rigged shuffling machine.

15. The sports gambling investigation is called "Operation Nothing But Net," while the poker investigation is called "Operation Royal Flush."

16. The FBI has been working on this investigation for four years, with victims losing at least $7 million.

17. One specific victim lost at least $1.8 million.

18. The FBI reviewed thousands of hours of video evidence and executed more than two dozen search warrants.

These are just accusations at this point. I am just pointing out details from the FBI's investigation.

Might hear about some high stakes professional poker players that got lured into these games on the premise of getting to play with a bunch of fish with a lot of money (pro athletes) not knowing that they were the actual mark. Kind of brilliant actually lol and definitely the most sophisticated cheating setup I've heard of before in these games.

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So chauncey rigged poker games to ensnare NBA players. I remember people wanting to give him slack what an absolute POS

?? No. That's not the accusation. The accusation is that he got involved with a mob gambling ring where he was the famous "bait" they used to distract people from the con. eg come play in this high stakes poker game. Chauncey Billups is going to be there. And then while the victims are chatting up a famous nba player and coach, everyone else is getting cued in on what cards that guy is holding so they know how to bet.

If you don't know what your talking about just say so.

The poker-rigging indictment against 31 defendants alleges that, starting in 2019, the Mafia began fixing poker games that sought to attract “fish” (victims) with the promise that they could play alongside “face cards” (NBA notables) used to get the fish to blow money on bets that they had no chance of winning, the prosecutor alleged.

“What the victims, the fish, didn’t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealers, to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scheme,” Nocella said.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sports/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme/

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So chauncey rigged poker games to ensnare NBA players. I remember people wanting to give him slack what an absolute POS

?? No. That's not the accusation. The accusation is that he got involved with a mob gambling ring where he was the famous "bait" they used to distract people from the con. eg come play in this high stakes poker game. Chauncey Billups is going to be there. And then while the victims are chatting up a famous nba player and coach, everyone else is getting cued in on what cards that guy is holding so they know how to bet.

If you don't know what your talking about just say so.

The poker-rigging indictment against 31 defendants alleges that, starting in 2019, the Mafia began fixing poker games that sought to attract “fish” (victims) with the promise that they could play alongside “face cards” (NBA notables) used to get the fish to blow money on bets that they had no chance of winning, the prosecutor alleged.

“What the victims, the fish, didn’t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealers, to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scheme,” Nocella said.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sports/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme/

Dude, learn to read. The NBA player was the bait. The "fish" were wealthy people that were impressed by being able to hang out with an NBA player. The "players" in that second section are the poker players, not the NBA player.

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You learn to read everybody means everybody including the face cards

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The FBI is holding a press conference right now on the details around this morning's sports gambling bust.

Here are some of the highlights:

1. Current and former NBA players and coaches Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier, and Damon Jones have been arrested.

2. This was an illegal gambling and sports rigging operation that spanned years across 11 states. In total, 30 individuals have been arrested (13 mafia members).

3. The case involves La Cosa Nostra (the Italian mafia).

4. Charges include illegal gambling, wire fraud, and extortion.

5. There are two separate indictments. The first involves six defendants accused of participating in a sports corruption scheme that exploited insider information involving NBA players and teams. The defendants leveraged their connections to place prop bets based on confidential insider information, winning tens of thousands of dollars per bet.

The second indictment involves 31 defendants charged with participating in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games. The FBI says they used high-tech cheating technology to steal millions of dollars from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed.

6. The two cases are separate, but there are three overlapping defendants, including former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

7. The FBI says that NBA player Terry Rozier told the defendants that he was going to leave a game early on March 23, 2023, with an injury. The defendants then placed more than $200,000 of wagers on the unders for his prop bets, with Rozier leaving the game after nine minutes. Those bets paid out tens of thousands of dollars in profits, and the defendants and Rozier counted the money at his house.

8 The FBI says that former Raptors player Jontay Porter was threatened to participate in the sports gambling scheme because of his gambling debts.

9. Teams that were bet on during the sports gambling scheme include the Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Raptors.

10. The rigged poker games occurred in the Hamptons, Miami, Las Vegas, and Manhattan.

11. The poker scheme targeted victims who were lured to participate in rigged poker games by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes. These athletes included Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones.

12. The FBI says that the defendants utilized altered shuffling machines to read the cards in the deck and then relayed that information to an off-site operator. The offsite operator — known as the "quarterback" — then sent that information to someone at the table.

13. The FBI also says that the defendants utilized other cheating technologies, including poker chip trays that read cards through hidden cameras, special contact lenses and glasses that could read marked cards, and x-ray poker tables that could read cards face down.

14. The FBI says that the defendants robbed a victim at gunpoint to acquire a rigged shuffling machine.

15. The sports gambling investigation is called "Operation Nothing But Net," while the poker investigation is called "Operation Royal Flush."

16. The FBI has been working on this investigation for four years, with victims losing at least $7 million.

17. One specific victim lost at least $1.8 million.

18. The FBI reviewed thousands of hours of video evidence and executed more than two dozen search warrants.

These are just accusations at this point. I am just pointing out details from the FBI's investigation.

Excellent post so thank you for that.
This will uncover more athletes and people of weath.
Rozier is done if true and msny more will be.

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lol how did the NBA not discover this during their investigation?

Probably because the NBA isn't allowed to wiretap people and offer people deals to testify against others.

Yea like what is the nba supposed to do here? Subpeona terrys text messages and phone records?

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Damon Jones is a guy that I am not surprised is involved. He always tried to look at lot richer than he actually was. He only made 21m in career earnings, that's 10m after tax. yet he was constantly around rich people and flexing his wealth. No surprise he needed a way to continue making money in his retirement.

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lol how did the NBA not discover this during their investigation?

Probably because the NBA isn't allowed to wiretap people and offer people deals to testify against others.

Yea like what is the nba supposed to do here? Subpeona terrys text messages and phone records?

I think the optics just look terrible here. These things may be true, but we are also saying the NBA investigations are pretty pointless as well then and they aren't catching anyone outside of the biggest idiots.

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Help me understand how a guy who has made 135M in his career feels the need to do this.

Because they become addicted. Most people love that high when they gamble.

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?? No. That's not the accusation. The accusation is that he got involved with a mob gambling ring where he was the famous "bait" they used to distract people from the con. eg come play in this high stakes poker game. Chauncey Billups is going to be there. And then while the victims are chatting up a famous nba player and coach, everyone else is getting cued in on what cards that guy is holding so they know how to bet.

If you don't know what your talking about just say so.

The poker-rigging indictment against 31 defendants alleges that, starting in 2019, the Mafia began fixing poker games that sought to attract “fish” (victims) with the promise that they could play alongside “face cards” (NBA notables) used to get the fish to blow money on bets that they had no chance of winning, the prosecutor alleged.

“What the victims, the fish, didn’t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealers, to the players, including the face cards, were in on the scheme,” Nocella said.

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/sports/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-alleged-poker-scheme/

Dude, learn to read. The NBA player was the bait. The "fish" were wealthy people that were impressed by being able to hang out with an NBA player. The "players" in that second section are the poker players, not the NBA player.

It's probably likely that some pro poker players were the "victims" here, will be interesting to see who comes out and says it. High stakes games with presumed fish is a gold mine and every pro would be trying to get into them and have plenty of backers wanting to get a piece.