Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat and head coach Chauncey Billups of the Portland Trail Blazers are both on administrative leave without pay, their paychecks now held in escrow while federal gambling investigations play out. Rozier, who was set to earn $26.6 million this season, faces charges that he helped others place bets using insider information about his playing time and statistical output.
Billups, under a multi-year deal in Portland, is likewise suspended without pay amid accusations that he was involved in an illegal poker operation tied to organized crime and may have passed confidential team info to bettors.
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The implications are huge: not only are both men’s careers in limbo, their teams and the league must deal with the fallout on integrity, contracts, and salary cap mechanics.
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