New York FBI Assistant Director Christopher Raia said that "Operation Royal Flush" has arrested dozens of members of various crime families of "la Cosa Nostra" in an illegal gambling scheme. They allegedly used NBA stars as "bait" to get people into high-level poker games,

Former NBA star and current Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups finds himself in hot water after being arrested by the FBI Thursday over alleged involvement in illegal poker games, however,

Two years before Chauncey Billups was named in an indictment in a rigged poker scheme, a pro poker player said a rigged game was built around Billups.

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups was arrested by the FBI on Thursday in connection with an alleged illegal poker game tied to the Mafia. That news may have come as a shock to many, but it didn't surprise professional gambler Matthew Berkey, who said Billups' poker game was "not on the up and up" on a podcast in 2023.

Federal prosecutors said mobsters used elaborate tech and Portland Trailblazer coach Chauncey Billups to lure wealthy people to rigged poker games.

The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, NBA Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, has been charged with helping to cheat high-stakes poker players out of millions of dollars through rigged card games allegedly operated by underworld crime figures.

Washington Place, in Greenwich Village – was one of two main Manhattan locations where high-stakes poker games were allegedly held by four of the city’s most powerful crime families.

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, while Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier is among several people charged in a separate but related illegal gambling case,