This probably wasn’t how Tiago Splitter envisioned his first win as an NBA head coach, but there he was walking into the Trail Blazers’ locker room after beating the Warriors on Friday and being showered with water bottles by his players. Splitter, 40 and a seven-year NBA veteran, took over as Portland’s interim head coach […]
Pat McAfee didn’t hesitate to bring up the biggest story in sports during “College GameDay” on Saturday. When discussing the College Football Playoff odds for undefeated and one-loss teams — everyone with at least a 2 percent chance, according to the chart — with the rest of the ESPN panel, McAfee, who hosts his eponymous […]
Much more gambling fraud could occur, especially at the university level. Ex-NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who was previously jailed for fixing games, called the NBA’s massive federal gambling raids involving Trail Blazers coach and Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, Heat guard Terry Rozier and ex-Cavs player and assistant Damon Jones just “the tip of the […]
A day after Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups – a Basketball Hall of Famer – and Heat guard Terry Rozier were involved in a federal investigation into sports betting and gambling, the NBA world is still grappling with the news. Celtics guard Anfernee Simons, who was traded to Boston from Portland last offseason, said Friday […]
A reputed mobster arrested Thursday in the explosive NBA gambling scandal pleaded guilty last week to unrelated charges that he tried to take over the Big Apple’s garbage business by force. Alleged Gambino capo Joseph Lanni, aka “Mommino” was accused Thursday of participating in a multibillion-dollar ring of rigged poker games run by mobsters who […]
Former NBA star Gilbert Arenas made jokes following the FBI arrests of Trailblazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Heat guard Terry Rozier on Thursday morning as part of a yearslong investigation into illegal sports gambling and illegal poker games. And those jokes led to a fight with ‘dirty’ ex-ESPNer Rachel Nichols. During the Thursday episode […]
Hours after Chauncey Billups was arrested as part of a pair of major federal busts, his legal team has a message. He will not withdraw from the battle. Billups, a Hall of Fame player and current head coach of the Trail Blazers, was one of three people with NBA ties and 31 in total arrested […]
The FBI’s charges have rippled across the NBA. Heat guard Terry Rozier, Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player and coach Damon Jones were arrested Thursday in a pair of sweeping and “historic” federal gambling raids. One of the two indictments involves an illegal high-stakes gambling ring that allegedly funneled inside information […]
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is seen in a 2019 photo playing poker with two people he was charged Thursday in a new indictment accusing them of participating in rigged poker games. The photo, obtained by The Post, shows the 49-year-old NBA Detroit Pistons champion sitting at a poker table with stacks of […]