The NBA is facing a congressional inquiry into the FBI game-fixing investigation

Congress is taking information related to recent events FBI investigation Gambling and game fixing led to the arrest of three current and former players.

The House Commerce Committee sent a letter to the NBA commissioner on Friday Adam Silver A request for information to obtain information and information related to the federal indictment of Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former NBA player and coach Damon Jones.

The bipartisan letter was signed by six members of Congress on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver holds a press conference at the Chase Center during the 2025 NBA All-Star Weekend on February 15, 2025 in San Francisco. (Getty Images via Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu)

The committee is seeking five key points of information from Silver:

“1. Details regarding fraudulent, illegal and alleged betting practices involving NBA players, coaches and officials, including the actions of NBA players and coaches identified in recent allegations; as well as prior precedents, some of which are identified above,” the letter states.

“2. The NBA intends to limit the disclosure of non-public information for illegal purposes. 3. Whether the NBA’s Code of Conduct effectively prohibits illegal activities for players and coaches, including the disclosure of non-public information for purposes of illegal betting schemes 5. Whether and how the NBA is reevaluating the terms of its partnership with sports betting companies.”

The letter also referenced comments Silver made during an appearance Tuesday on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show,” where the commissioner expressed support for more federal sports betting regulation.

“I think, probably, there should be more regulation, obviously,” Silver said. “I wish there were federal laws instead of state by state. I think you need to monitor the amount of promotion, the amount of advertising around it.”

Fox News Digital has reached out to the NBA for a response to the letter.

The Department of Justice Listed seven NBA games that saw high-stakes wagers after non-public information was revealed to gamblers.

Rozier’s alleged involvement in a game on March 23, 2023, was revealed when he told childhood friend DeNiro Laster that he would leave the game early, citing an injury, so Laster could pay based on the information. Hornets officials or betting companies were not informed of Rozier’s plan, according to the allegation, and Rozier was not listed on the team’s injury report.

NBA legend Chauncey Billups, Heat’s Terry Rozier arrested as part of FBI gambling probe

That information was then allegedly sold to other co-conspirators, and numerous people bet approximately $200,000 on Rozier’s “under” prop bets to hit in both parlay and straight wagers. After Rozier played just nine minutes and did not return, Bett won. Rozier and Laster counted the cash winnings about a week later at Rozier’s home in Charlotte, an indictment said.

The DOJ says the player was ultimately ejected due to a lower body injury. LeBron James was unable to play that night due to an ankle injury that kept him out for two more games. The game in question was played two days after James scored 38 points to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.

The second game cited by the DOJ was a Portland Trail Blazers-Chicago Bulls matchup on March 24, 2023, the day after Rozier played nine minutes, and a co-conspirator, “an NBA coach at the time,” allegedly told a longtime friend, who is also a defendant in the racketeering poker scheme, that “it would be better to pick some nights and pick nights” for Blascroft. Of the players. The rest of the players had not been made public yet.

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Rozier and Jones were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. The NBA announced that Rozier and Billups had been placed on immediate leave from their team, “and we will continue to cooperate with the appropriate authorities.”

“The integrity of our game is our highest priority,” the NBA said.

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