I just don't get. Chauncy Billups made more than $107 million in the NBA as a player. He was making $2 million per year as a coach. How much is enough?
Why risk it?
he would have been in the pocket when he was poor-ish.
Yeah for now Billups isn't implicated in anything directly NBA related, but he was basically a hack for the mafia which has been known to dabble in sports betting every now and then over the course of history. It's hard to believe that if he was willing to do this for them with respect to poker, that there isn't a strong possibility it extended into "other" things.
Which is why NBA rules around anything gambling related for players/coaches etc are so strict - even if comically it's now the other way around with the public because you know, they make more and more money off that too.
Billups might be fine - he's rich and a first time "offender". Also just played in an illegal poker ring, not any sports betting stuff. Rozier might be f*cked
Rozier is done permanently. He will never be associated with the NBA again. Billups may or may not have been involved in sports betting. If he has been involved in sports betting, he too will never be associated with the NBA again. Likely they are both done with the NBA forever.
So the DOJ says its illegal to play poker now. Wow.
Better watch out, guys. Big Brother wants a share of your Friday night games.
31 arrests and they are not being arrested for Friday night games. Billups was involved with the mafia.
Oh. Well, if he's involved with the mafia, that's different. They always cheat at cards. They'll shoot you in the foot if you get their drink order wrong.
Billups must have got bored coaching a mediocre NBA team these past few years. All his coaching decisions should be questioned. After Damon Stoudamire went free agent, seems possible Billups knew he wouldn't be coaching a good team for the next several years.
Crazy for the NCAA to allow athletes to bet on pro sports beginning November 1. Lots of those guys will turn pro with an established history of betting on pro sports. NCAA thinking they will magically stop is laughable.
Imagine having a job as a bad NBA coach and how easy that is. Coaching adults who know the game backwards and forwards. Then if you are bad enough you get fired and sit home and collect the money.
He's screwing himself out of so much future earnings by just messing that up. Talk about a real gamble.
Billups must have got bored coaching a mediocre NBA team these past few years. All his coaching decisions should be questioned. After Damon Stoudamire went free agent, seems possible Billups knew he wouldn't be coaching a good team for the next several years.
Crazy for the NCAA to allow athletes to bet on pro sports beginning November 1. Lots of those guys will turn pro with an established history of betting on pro sports. NCAA thinking they will magically stop is laughable.
Damon Stoudamire was a point guard for the Trail Blazers…20+ years ago. You’re thinking of Damian Lillard.
I just don't get. Chauncy Billups made more than $107 million in the NBA as a player. He was making $2 million per year as a coach. How much is enough?
Why risk it?
My first reaction then I remembered. Greed. And this isn't minor. This is working with (or as part) the mob. They cheated just one guy out of 1.8 million.
Billups has been a star his whole life. HS in Denver. CU. NBA. How he got involved in this God only knows. Not great choices ahead. Prison time or cooperate and name names on the Mob or testify against them. That's if the Feds even need that. Sounds like they have pretty good details how the cheating worked. How Billups was used to lure people in etc.
So on brand for this administration. As opposed to, say, investigating insider trading in Congress - on both sides of the aisle - with anything approaching the vigor that they are doubtlessly bringing to this investigation
He's living rent-free in your head, isn't he?
You do realize most of the people at the FBI are career law enforcement. The game that drew everyone's attention happened in 2023 - when Biden was president. This case is years in the making.
So on brand for this administration. As opposed to, say, investigating insider trading in Congress - on both sides of the aisle - with anything approaching the vigor that they are doubtlessly bringing to this investigation
He's living rent-free in your head, isn't he?
You do realize most of the people at the FBI are career law enforcement. The game that drew everyone's attention happened in 2023 - when Biden was president. This case is years in the making.
You are correct. The FBI has hundreds and hundreds of serious crimes they investigate that take many years.
But the new FBI director squashed the ones he and dear leader didn’t like. And they have obliterated white collar crime investigations, foreign interference investigations, crypto scam investigations, fired watchdog agencies for public corruption. defunded the SEC and depleted the IRS.
But it looks like this is one he liked. And even wanted a press conference to smear the NBA for some reason.
I just don't get. Chauncy Billups made more than $107 million in the NBA as a player. He was making $2 million per year as a coach. How much is enough?
Why risk it?
Billups might be fine - he's rich and a first time "offender". Also just played in an illegal poker ring, not any sports betting stuff. Rozier might be f*cked
according to the charging documents he did not just play illegal poker. He was the "draw" for other players to be brought in.
Billups might be fine - he's rich and a first time "offender". Also just played in an illegal poker ring, not any sports betting stuff. Rozier might be f*cked
according to the charging documents he did not just play illegal poker. He was the "draw" for other players to be brought in.
Billups must have got bored coaching a mediocre NBA team these past few years. All his coaching decisions should be questioned. After Damon Stoudamire went free agent, seems possible Billups knew he wouldn't be coaching a good team for the next several years.
Crazy for the NCAA to allow athletes to bet on pro sports beginning November 1. Lots of those guys will turn pro with an established history of betting on pro sports. NCAA thinking they will magically stop is laughable.
Sorry, Damon Lillard, not Damon Stoudamire. Billups and Lillard were close. “Bigger than this basketball thing is he's a friend of mine. He's almost kind of like a little brother to me…” is how Billups referred to Lillard after he went free agent. Those two guys had very similar game.
Without Lillard, Portland has been a mediocre team with many young players. Maybe Billups lost interest and went over to the dark side.