🏀 Hoos in the NBA 2025-26

Looks like it’s two separate-ish stories: Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups charged in illegal poker operation tied to Mafia: Sources - ABC News

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier is also charged in a separate but related illegal gambling case. He is among six people charged Thursday with turning professional basketball into a criminal gambling operation by using inside information to place unlawful wagers, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Gil Arenas got arrested for illegal poker recently too. Rozier has more of the Jontay Porter-style of issues (allegedly).

And of course, the NCAA is Johnny-on-the-spot with well-timed policy changes: NCAA allows athletes to bet on pro sports starting Nov. 1 - ESPN

What could go wrong?

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I guess if you trawled Reddit, the Chauncey news would have been 2 years old: Chauncey allegedly scammed people out of thousands of dollars by running rigged private poker games in LA & Vegas : r/ripcity

Matt: There are a lot of stories about it. There’s one that cropped up, must’ve been like 5 years ago, 2019ish I think? 4 years ago? Where there was this game, it started in LA and then it came to Vegas for a few days, and it was all built around Chauncey Billups. And I had heard about the game, and the person who told me about it was like “Look, I know the game runners, I am telling you 100% this game is on the up-and-up.” And I was like “Well, I know a lot of the people that are involved and I am telling you 100% that it is NOT on the up-and-up.”

We kind of went back and forth and I agreed that I just wasn’t going to go play. But I had some friends who went and played it both in LA and in Vegas, and it obviously was like, for sure confirmed to be cheated. Like people who clearly didn’t even understand the rules of No Limit Hold’em are just jamming hundreds of big blinds with a gutty and then just drilling it.1 [laughs] Only the pros are losing…

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Gils arrest was less about the gambling and more about other stuff and his ties to it were in typical Gil fashion strange at the very least.

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Apparently so.

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https://twitter.com/oldnbatweetz/status/1981325583255818673?s=46

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Sounds like Chauncey and Damon Jones were essentially poker honeypots: Live Updates: Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier Among Those Arrested in NBA-Linked Gambling Probes - The New York Times

Victims were lured into games to get close to sports celebrities like Mr. Billups and Mr. Jones only to be cheated out of their money through technology like shuffling machines that had been altered to read the cards in the deck and predict which player at the table had the best hand, said Christopher Raia, the assistant director in charge of the F.B.I.’s New York Field Office.

I guess the appeal was less “Ooh, I get to play with Damon Jones, always wanted to hang with him” and more “Ooh, I get to play with Damon Jones, there’s no way he’s better than me at poker.”

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Imagine draft night 2027 when the Heat won’t have a 1st round pick because they sent it to Charlotte for Rozier. Who might be sitting in prison at that point.

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Between that and Kash Patel’s resting “oops I hope that was just a fart” face, I agree

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Is there an up to date list of UVA players in the NBA now and their contract/playing status?

Beekman -

Diakite -

Dunn - Phoenix - active

Gill -

Guy - Indy - exhibit 10?

Hauser - Celtics - active

Huff - Indy - active roster

Hunter - Cleveland - active roster

Jerome -

Murphy - New Orleans - active

Who did I miss and can someone help fill in the blanks?

Thanks!

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Dislike Spain

Hill wizards

Jerome Memphis out with injury 4 weeks

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Beekman is likely to be Orlando G-League after getting waived.

Braxton Key was waived by both GSW and Memphis this offseason. Just signed with Valencia.

Diakite signed with Baskonia in Spain.

Gill is on the active roster with Washington.

Jerome is on the active roster with Memphis.

JAR was just drafted in the G league by the Stockton Kings (cough, nepotism). I assume we may see Kadin land somewhere but he was not drafted.

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I thought this thread was about Hoos in the NBA not quitters

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Player Pos HT WT League(s) Team(s) GP PPG RPG APG
Igor Milicic, Jr. F 6-10 225 G League Blue Coats - - - -
Jabri Abdur-Rahim SF 6-8 215 G League Kings - - - -
Jordan Minor PF 6-8 242 G League Hustle - - - -
Kyle Guy SG 6-1 167 G League Boom - - - -
Reece Beekman PG 6-3 190 G League Magic - - - -
Anthony Gill PF 6-7 230 NBA Wizards 2 2.00 0.00 0.00
De’Andre Hunter PF 6-7 221 NBA Cavaliers 1 16.00 4.00 2.00
James Huff C 7-1 240 NBA Pacers 3 4.00 1.67 0.00
Ryan Dunn G 6-7 216 NBA Suns 3 8.00 7.33 1.67
Sam Hauser SF 6-7 217 NBA Celtics 3 11.33 3.00 0.33
Trey Murphy III G 6-8 206 NBA Pelicans 2 18.50 8.50 4.00
Ty Jerome PG 6-5 195 NBA Grizzlies - - - -
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I had no idea what was going in here till I realized it was autocorrect fail. Thought you were glitching there for a minute :rofl:

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Yeah, right? Spain seems nice. Tapas, Rioja? Why the beef @Hooandtrue ? :joy:

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I kinda like the music

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Spain Chanting GIF by euronews

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You know, they say the ladies are insane there but they sure know how to use it.

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They don’t abuse it

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Great song, but really need one of the admins to merge these posts into a thread on the sabre where they belong.

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