NBA head coach and star player arrested by FBI on federal gambling charges

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested on federal gambling-related charges, according to two senior law enforcement officials.

The 31-year-old Rozier was arrested Thursday morning in Orlando, Florida, and it's not clear where Billups was arrested, but his team played last night in Portland, reported NBC News.

"Members and associates of organized crime groups are also among the couple of dozen expected to face criminal charges in two separate illegal gambling-related cases," the network reported.

The 49-year-old Billups has been a coach since 2021 following a 17-year career, and he was elected last year to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as a player.

"Law enforcement’s interest in Billups comes four months after another NBA star, Gilbert Arenas, was arrested and indicted after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Central District of California alleged he was involved in helping operate illegal, high-stakes poker games out of a Los Angeles-area home that Arenas owned," NBC reported.

Former NBA player Jontay Porter pleaded guilty in federal court and banned for life in 2024 for violating the league’s sports gambling rules after he allegedly bet on games as a Toronto Raptors player and disclosing confidential information about his own participation to gamblers.

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