Brian Windhorst accuses the NBA of secretly punishing Terry Rozier over his gambling scandal
The NBA — not a foot injury — has allegedly ended Terry Rozier’s controversial 2022-23 season.
ESPN star Brian Windhorst claimed the NBA knew of betting violations in connection with Rozier’s March 23, 2023 game while he was with the Hornets and “pulled” him.
Rozier did not play in the Hornets’ final eight games that season after exiting the competition in question, with Anders’ team cashing in on their prop bets due to him being out with a presumed right foot injury.
The FBI arrested Rozier on Thursday As part of a sports betting investigation.
“The NBA, at some point, is going to have to explain why it allowed Terry Rozier to continue playing. And I want to point something out. The sportsbooks discovered the irregular betting on Terry Rozier the day it happened, and the morning it happened, when suddenly there were hundreds of thousands of dollars coming in on Terry Rozier Unders for a relatively meaningless game in March involving Charlotte.” Hornets. Sports betting agencies have realized that.” Windhorst said on the “Rich Eisen Show” on Thursday.
“They told the NBA right away, and guess what? The NBA — Rozier didn’t play the rest of the season and he had feigned an injury, so it wasn’t an injury. The NBA pulled them, They drafted (former banned Raptor) Jontay Porter as wellthey tagged Jontay Porter and pulled Jontay Porter. The NBA’s procedures, their own safeguards, their sports betting safeguards are what brought this up, and they figured it out.
If Windhorst’s allegations are true, it opens the league — and Commissioner Adam Silver — to a lot of questions about how it handled the situation and what measures it took to investigate the matter.
Details of Rozier’s arrest emerged on Thursday He supposedly informed members of organized crime He will be out of the aforementioned game against the Pelicans early.
This resulted in over $200,000 being bet on the Under Markets against his tools, meaning that bettors placed money that would be below the specified Over/Un performance of his stats.
Rozier played just 9:34 before exitingwho scored five points with four rebounds, two assists and one steal, numbers well below his season averages of 21.1 points, 5.1 assists, 4.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game.
The FBI alleges that people in the know made profits in the tens of thousands, and that “Defendants and Rozier counted the money at his home.”
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
Windhorst claims this happened when the NBA intervened to end Rozier’s season, preventing him from playing in the final eight games.
The stated reason would be a presumed right foot injury, as the injury report for the Hornets’ final game that year stated that Rozier did not play due to “Injury/Illness – Right foot; discomfort.”
What’s interesting is that the NBA previously said it received information in March 2023 about possible illegal gambling activities involving Rozier and investigated the matter, though it found no wrongdoing.
However, the league’s January statement made no mention of Rozier not being cleared to play while the NBA investigated the issue or when the investigation was underway.
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“In March 2023, the NBA was alerted to unusual betting activity related to Terry Rozier’s performance in a game between Charlotte and New Orleans,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in January.
“The league conducted an investigation and found no violation of NBA rules. We are now aware of the investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York regarding this matter and are cooperating with that investigation.”
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Any supposed NBA action was moved to the 2023-24 season, when Rozier suited up for the Hornets before being traded to his current team, the Heat.
It was Rozier He was placed on leave by the NBA following his arrestHis attorney, Jim Trusty, criticized the FBI for arresting his client.
“A long time ago, we reached out to these prosecutors to tell them we had to have an open line of communication. They described Terry as a subject, not a target, but at 6 a.m. this morning they called to tell me that FBI agents were trying to arrest him at a hotel.” Reliable told the Mail On Thursday morning.
“It’s unfortunate that instead of letting him surrender, they chose to take a photo op. They wanted the misplaced glory of embarrassing a professional athlete with an outing. That tells you a lot about the motives in this case.”
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