NBA Stars And Mafiosi Arrested In Gambling Sting Worth Tens Of Millions

NBA stars Chauncy Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones are among those arrested for alleged game fixing. Meanwhile, a separate but somehow related case has nabbed 31 mafia members for the lame crime of rigging poker games and not something cool like murder or something.

As FBI Director Kash Patel explained, “This is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today.”

According to Patel, the operation spanned years and went all the way to the top of the Casa Nostra, involving the Genovese, Lucchese, Banana, Childish Gambino, Fetachini, and Soprano families. AKA the 5.6 families.

Those arrested include Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, former Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks and Cleveland Cavaliers player Damon Jones, and former NBA player Bugs Bunny, who was detained for the unrelated charge of illegal duck hunting.

Officials began investigating unusual betting surrounding Rozier in 2023, wondering if he had manipulated his performance and faked an injury during a game or if he genuinely did come down with a sudden case of “fake-disease-itis”.

Allegedly, between 2022 and 2024, the defendants conducted fraudulent bets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars based on insider information about the NBA games. The criminals then laundered their money with bank wires, crypto, and just good old-fashioned detergent, so add all that to the list of crimes as well.

By the way, have you seen Uncut Gems? Man, I love that movie. Not that that’s related to anything. Anyways…

Separately (I think), Billups and Jones were used as famous faces to bait wealthy individuals into rigged poker games, fleecing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the mark per game. The games were fixed with a tampered shuffling machine, special contact lenses and an X-ray table, what? What even is that?

Fine, I take it back, maybe this poker rigging isn’t so lame after all.

Oh my god and to top all this off the FBI called the investigation ‘Operation Royal Flush’, yeah, we’re going to see a Netflix movie on this in a couple years, no doubt about it.

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