Adam Silver talks about Terry Rozier’s NBA gambling scandal.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver admitted that the NBA investigated then-Hornets guard Terry Rozier over potential sports betting violations in 2023.
Speaking to Amazon Prime after the first quarter of the Knicks-Celtics game on Friday at the Garden, Silver said Rozier cooperated with NBA investigators, but the league concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to discipline the player.
FBI Rozier is arrested – now a member of the Heat – and others on Thursday in A Realize gambling on a large scalewith Portland coach Chauncey Billups also arrested for his alleged role in an illegal poker scheme.
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“What happened was that because of bets placed by legal betting companies, they picked up anomalous behavior around a particular game in March of ’23,” Silver told Amazon reporter Cassidy Hubbarth. “So that was brought to our attention by regulators and betting companies.” “We then looked into that situation and were very transparent about it, and even though there were those anomalous bets, we honestly couldn’t find anything.
“We then worked directly with law enforcement,” they said at the press conference. “The league has been cooperating, and obviously that has been for more than two years. The federal government has the power to subpoena people, it can threaten to put people in jail, it can do all kinds of things that the league’s office can’t do.”
“We’ve been working with them ever since, and of course, what they announced (Thursday) was an indictment. So, two and a half years later, he hasn’t been convicted of anything, in fairness to Terry. Of course, it doesn’t look good, but now he’s been put on administrative leave, but there’s a balance here between protecting people’s rights and investigating. And as I said, we’ve been working with the government, and they have extraordinary powers. The league office doesn’t “He owns.”
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The FBI has arrested 31 people involved in a fake poker ring supported by organized crime families in New York City.
- Ernest Aiello – famous Bonanno mobster
- Nelson “Spanish J” Alvarez
- Louis “Law Up” Apicella
- Ammar “Flapper Poker” Al Awawda
- Saul Becher — Professional poker player
- Chauncey Billups – Portland Trail Blazers coach, NBA Hall of Famer and 2004 NBA champion
- Matthew “The Wrestler” Dadino
- Eric “Scary” Ernest
- Lee Fama — Professional poker player
- John Gallo
- Marco Garzon
- Thomas “Tommy Joyce” Gilardo – a famous Lucchese gangster who was indicted in 2013 for Porn star girlfriend hit
- Jimmy Gillette
- Tony “Black Tony” Goodson
- Kenny Hahn
- Shane “drunk” her
- Usman “Albanian Bruce” hottie
- Horatio is
- Chen “Scrolly” is
- Damon “Dee Jones” Jones – NBA player from 1998 to 2009
- Joseph Laney
- John “John South” Mazzola
- Curtis Mix
- Nicholas Minucci
- Michael Renzulli
- Anthony Ruggiero Jr
- Anthony “Doc” Schneiderman
- Robert “Black Robe” Stroud
- Seth Trustman
- Sophia “Bucky” Wee
- Julius Ziliani
Rozier, 31, was arrested by federal agents and charged He allegedly conspires to help others win backer bets That includes his performance during a game in March 2023, when he was still a member of the Hornets before being traded to Miami the following season.
He denied these accusations through his legal advisor.
In the 2023 game in question, Rozier allegedly told a friend he was pulling himself early due to injury, and that information was sold to bettors, who bet hundreds of thousands of dollars on Rozier’s props, according to the indictment.
Rozier was in uniform but did not play in the Heat’s season-opening loss on Wednesday in Orlando.
Silver was not asked in the Amazon interview about Billups.
“First of all, I had to start with how excited we are to be at Amazon,” Silver said. “I guess I never expected that my first interview ever on Amazon would be about sports betting.” “But I accept that.
“Meanwhile, there’s another great game tonight and the competition that was in Oklahoma City on opening night, and it’s a double over there, I’ve heard from people around the league — and I apologize to our fans because we’re all now dealing with that situation, but as far as the competition on the floor, it’s been amazing.”
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