Entertainment & Sports
Oct. 28, 2025
The NBA's billion-dollar bet on gambling just came due
The NBA cashed in on legalized gambling's gold rush, then acted shocked when players and coaches turned insider information into a criminal enterprise -- 30 arrests later, the league's billion-dollar hypocrisy is impossible to ignore.
Lou Shapiro
Email: LouisJShapiro@Gmail.com
Louis, a former Los Angeles County Public Defender, is a criminal defense attorney and State Bar-certified criminal law specialist out of Century City. He is also a legal analyst, board member of the California Innocence Project and Project For The Innocence at Loyola Law School, CACJ and LACBA'S Criminal Justice Executive Committee.
The NBA is facing one of its most damaging scandals in decades. Federal prosecutors have charged multiple individuals -- including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups -- with participating in illegal gambling and fraud schemes that allegedly leveraged insider information for profit.
According to court filings unsealed in October 2025, Rozier is accused of sharing non-public injury and lineup information w...
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