Blazers Head Coach Chauncey Billups appears in federal court in sports gambling scandal

Portland Trail Blazers Head Coach was arrested on Thursday in connection with an illegal gambling operation.

The NBA placed Billups on leave following the announcement that he had been charged with participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games.

Federal authorities said Thursday that Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier had been indicted in separate cases alleging sprawling schemes to rake in millions. Splitter was made an assistant on Billups’ staff in June, according to reporting from the Associated Press.

KATU was outside the court room Thursday as Billups exited on pre-trial release.

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