Arrests of Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups are sports’ latest gambling scandal

Portland Path Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Warmth guard Terry Rozier and former NBA guard and coach Damon Jones had been amongst these arrested by the FBI on Thursday as a part of an investigation into unlawful playing and sports activities betting.

The investigation was linked to members of the La Cosa Nostra crime households.

The arrests, which have rocked the NBA world, mark a brand new chapter during which notable gamers and coaches have been concerned in unlawful sports activities playing over the previous century.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

(Left) Portland Path Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups talks to a referee throughout a first-half timeout towards the Sacramento Kings on the Moda Middle in Portland, Oregon, on October 10, 2025. (Proper) Miami Warmth guard Terry Rozier (2) walks off the courtroom after the sport towards the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Area in Detroit, Michigan, on November 12, 2024. (Jaime Valdez/Imagn Pictures; Rick Osentoski/Imagn Pictures)

Here is a glance again at a number of the largest playing scandals in skilled sports activities.

• In 1920, eight members of the Chicago White Sox had been indicted by a grand jury in Chicago for fixing the 1919 World Sequence. It is named the “Black Sox Scandal.” The jury discovered the gamers not responsible, however White Sox proprietor Charles Comiskey suspended the gamers, together with “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. A yr after the suspension, they had been completely banned by new baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
• In 1946, Hockey Corridor of Famer Babe Pratt was suspended for playing. He was reinstated weeks later, with the NHL Board of Governors warning that additional situations of playing would lead to a lifetime ban for a participant.
• In 1948, two years after the NHL Board of Governors’ warning, Billy Taylor and Don Gallinger had been banned for all times for sport betting.
• In 1951, 4 members of the Adolph Rupp-coached Kentucky Wildcats had been charged with taking bribes from gamblers for an NIT sport towards Loyola within the 1948–49 season. There have been 35 lively and former gamers accused of fixing at the least 86 video games between 1947 and 1951. An NCAA investigation revealed a number of violations, which led to the cancellation of Kentucky’s 1952-53 season.
• In 1989, Cincinnati Reds legend Pete Rose was banned for all times for playing on video games. Rose was discovered to have positioned quite a few bets on the Reds profitable between 1985 and 1987 whereas he performed and managed the workforce. He admitted to playing in 2004 after years of claiming his innocence. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred posthumously eliminated Rose from the completely ineligible listing in Might 2025, months after his loss of life, lastly making Rose eligible for the Baseball Corridor of Fame. Rose is baseball’s all-time chief in hits with 4,256.

NBA LEGEND CHAUNCEY BILLUPS, HEAT’S TERRY ROZIER ARRESTED AS PART OF FBI GAMBLING PROBE

Pete Rose waves to followers through the unveiling of a bronze statue devoted to him on the Nice American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 17, 2017. (PROPOSE)

• In 1996, 13 Boston Faculty soccer gamers had been suspended for playing. Two of the gamers wager towards their very own workforce throughout a 45-17 loss to Syracuse. Head coach Dan Henning knowledgeable faculty officers when he heard allegations of gamers inserting bets with bookmakers and resigning. No indications of level shaving had been discovered.
• In 2007, then-assistant coach Rick Tocchet was positioned on two years’ probation after pleading responsible to conspiracy and selling playing as an assistant coach with the then-Phoenix Coyotes. The next season he was reinstated by the NHL. Additionally, a number of gamers had been initially concerned in a playing scheme titled “Operation Slapshot”, which concerned a New Jersey ring; Wayne Gretzky’s spouse, Janet Jones; and Gretzky’s former agent and then-Coyotes common supervisor Michael Barnett. Tocchet is at present the pinnacle coach of the Philadelphia Flyers.
• In 2008, NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleaded responsible to wire fraud and transmitting playing data for taking hundreds of {dollars} from a gambler in change for inside recommendations on video games, together with video games he labored on. He was sentenced by a federal choose to fifteen months behind bars.
• In 2023, golfer Phil Mickelson is alleged to have wagered greater than $1 billion over the previous three a long time in a e-book written by gambler Billy Walters. Within the e-book, Walters wrote that Mickelson needed to wager $400,000 on the 2012 Ryder Cup, when he performed for the USA. The six-time main winner denied betting on the Ryder Cup and wrote in a social media submit that he has stopped playing. Mickelson stated he crossed the road from sobriety to habit.
• In 2023, Ottawa Senators ahead Shane Pinto was suspended 41 video games for sports activities playing. The NHL stated there was no proof that Pinto gambled on hockey, and Pinto revealed no particulars upon his return to the Senators.

NBA PLAYER TERRY ROZIER’S LAWYER SLAMS FBI AFTER ARREST

Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) with translator Ippei Mizuhara towards the Chicago White Sox throughout a spring coaching baseball sport at Camelback Ranch-Glendale. (Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports activities)

• In March 2024, the Los Angeles Dodgers fired Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter and shut buddy of newly acquired two-way star Shohei Ohtani, following reviews of his ties to an unlawful bookmaker. Three months later, Mizuhara pleaded responsible in federal courtroom to financial institution and tax fraud for stealing almost $17 million from Ohtani’s checking account. He spent the cash to cowl his rising playing bets and money owed with an unlawful bookmaker, plus $325,000 on baseball playing cards and his personal medical payments. Mizuhara took benefit of the language barrier to stop Ohtani’s monetary advisors from understanding their shopper, and at instances Mizuhara even posed because the participant on the financial institution to extend the fraud.
• In April 2024, the NBA banned Toronto Raptors ahead Jontay Porter after a league investigation discovered that he had disclosed confidential data to sports activities gamblers and wager on video games. Porter even wager the Raptors would lose. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver known as Porter’s actions “egregious.” The investigation started after uncommon betting patterns surrounding Porter’s March 20 efficiency towards the Sacramento Kings. The league decided that Porter had given a bettor details about his personal well being standing previous to that sport and stated one other particular person – referred to as an NBA bettor – had positioned an $80,000 wager that Porter wouldn’t attain the grades set for him in parlays by an internet sportsbook. That wager would have returned $1.1 million.
• In June 2024, San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was suspended for all times by the MLB for betting on baseball. MLB stated Marcano positioned 387 baseball bets totaling greater than $150,000 at a authorized sportsbook in 2022 and 2023. The 24-year-old Venezuelan, with 149 video games of Main League expertise, grew to become the primary lively participant in a century to be banned for all times for playing.
• Additionally in 2024, then-Oakland Athletics pitcher Michael Kelly was additionally suspended for one yr for betting on minor league baseball, and three minor leaguers had been additionally suspended for one yr for betting on huge league video games: pitchers Jay Groome of San Diego and Andrew Saalfrank of Arizona, and infielder José Rodríguez from Philadelphia. Every of those 4 gamers wager lower than $1,000. Saalfrank and Rodríguez beforehand performed within the majors.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase throughout a baseball sport towards the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, June 17, 2025. (Jeff Chiu/AP picture, file)

• In February 2025, referee Pat Hoberg was fired by MLB for sharing his authorized sports activities playing accounts with a buddy who gambled on baseball video games and for intentionally deleting digital messages related to the league’s investigation. Though MLB stated the investigation revealed no proof that Hoberg had personally wager on baseball or rigged video games, on Might 24, 2024, senior vice chairman of on-field operations Michael Hill really helpful Hoberg be fired. Manfred upheld Hill’s determination. Among the many highest-rated umpires in hitting zone evaluate, Hoberg could not request reinstatement till 2026 spring coaching. MLB stated the buddy made 141 baseball bets between April 2, 2021 and November 1, 2023, totaling almost $214,000 with whole winnings of almost $35,000. Eight of the bets had been on matches the place Hoberg was working.
• In July 2025, Main League Baseball positioned Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz on non-disciplinary paid depart as a result of a playing investigation. Practically a month later, two-time American League Reliever of the Yr Emmanuel Clase joined him. MLB prolonged Clase and Ortiz’s paid depart “till additional discover whereas MLB continues its investigation.” On the time of writing this text, there isn’t any replace on the playing investigation.
• In September 2025, the NCAA introduced it was investigating potential violations of sports activities betting guidelines involving 13 former males’s basketball gamers who competed for Jap Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley State. The NCAA’s Integrity Monitoring Program and Community of Assets flagged textual content messages and direct messages on social media platforms and uncovered uncommon playing exercise surrounding common season video games. Violations embody student-athletes betting on and towards their very own groups, sharing data with third events for sports activities betting functions, manipulating scores or outcomes, and/or refusing to take part in analysis.

Ryan Morik of Fox Information and the Related Press contributed to this report.

Observe Fox Information Digital’s sports reporting on Xand subscribe to the Fox Information Sports activities Huddle publication.