BREAKING: CHAUNCEY BILLUPS ARRESTED BY FBI FOR ILLEGAL GAMBLING (17 Viewers)

[Strenuus]

And so goes Scott Foster as well
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I am wondering if this is real?

The end didnt give it away?

 

[inconceivable]

He certainly might not have known that the poker game was rigged if that's what was going on.

yeah, if he thought he was being paid for his celebrity status to attract players, but had no idea of the hocus pocus going on, then is he really guilty? He's just involved.

 

[inconceivable]

What did Ime do in Boston?

had sex with team employee

 

[kjironman1]

The end didnt give it away?

That was my first response but this is still ongoing on the tweeterspere.

 

[Quatro44]

We about to get the longest yard, but with basketball. The Longest Shot.

 

[kjironman1]

yeah, if he thought he was being paid for his celebrity status to attract players, but had no idea of the hocus pocus going on, then is he really guilty? He's just involved.

I don't know man. He ain't stupid. he must have been in on it at some point.

 

[Strenuus]

That was my first response but this is still ongoing on the tweeterspere.

The end takes all credit away. Bad trolling by them.

 

[inconceivable]

it's so unfortunate Chauncey doesn't have an interpreter

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

That was my first response but this is still ongoing on the tweeterspere.

Its fake brother. Doesnt mean he isnt involved. But the things on Twitter right now are parodies for shits and gigs.

 

[HailBlazers]

 

[KingSpeed]

Don't need to go back to Stotts, and don't need to hire the guy who runs his players into the ground and loses every team he coaches.

That's a recipe for disaster.

Thibs won a championship as a defensive coordinator and got Bulls and Knicks to EFC.

 

[LayneStaley]

What’s wrong with Splitter? He’s from the Pop tree sort of right? I’d rather have a youngish exciting new coach to go with this team than some retread.

 

[julius]

Thibs won a championship as a defensive coordinator and got Bulls and Knicks to EFC.

He also ruined Derrick Rose, and giving him credit for the Celtics title is laughable.

 

[James lamphear]

Well I never was a big fan of Billups but I wouldn't trust Patel far is can throw him he no good.

 

[illmatic99]

times like this im happy dame is back. he'll keep the youngins in check while keeping a sense of normalcy among the media craziness that will inevitably come.

 

[blazerfan11]

I thought everyone had X-ray machines and special glasses nowadays.

 

[BBert]

Fuck Billups if he intentionally contributed to us losing games.

You mean tanking for draft picks?

 

[Strenuus]

Well I never was a big fan of Billups but I wouldn't trust Patel far is can throw him he no good.

It started and almost all of it was done before his corrupt ass got in there.

 

[Samuel]

I pointed this out when that went down with the Mavs. The league knew all of the teams who were out of the running for the playoffs were tanking. The reason why the Mavs got penalized was because they chose to bench Luka when they were still in contention for a potential spot in the playoffs.

So I just don't think that the league will want to implicate our team in any of this. They'll want to deal with all of this as a problem with Chaucey, not some guilt by association with our team that has a sale basically in escrow.

The slight difference here is that it's verifiably documented; it's in the indictment. the word tanking is in open court from chauncey. adam silver doesn't need this further staining the integrity of his league's (and league partners') burgeoning betting revenue streams.

the league can do their best to isolate chauncey as a rogue bad actor (and will probably succeed in doing so). but if you look even slightly more broadly...

 

[Everything Beagle]

Innocent til proven guilty?

I ain’t a court of law

 

[Blazinaway]

What a ****, what's wrong with some of these people and the NBA brass? Greed/arrogance is unreal, how much money/power do they need? Silver needs to go, and I'm about done with these high paying professional sports, it's just way, way, over the top. Pretty much IMO another sad sign of the times! Glad I am older, it's only going to get uglier.

 

[bradk8605]

This was from the post game press conference last night "let the chips fall"

 

[BigGameDamian]

 

[Everything Beagle]

We about to get the longest yard, but with basketball. The Longest Shot.

The Longest Guard

 

[wizenheimer]

yeah, if he thought he was being paid for his celebrity status to attract players, but had no idea of the hocus pocus going on, then is he really guilty? He's just involved.

c'mon....that's just doesn't seem very credible

I'd imagine if it comes to trial that would be his defense. I wouldn't believe it considering he was getting (alleged) under the table payments

 

[BlayZa]

Chauncey Billups matches description of 'Co-Conspirator 8' who provided inside information, according to FBI's sports betting indictment

Billups was arrested Thursday in connection with a separate illegal poker ring.

sports.yahoo.com

Within the indictment is the implication that other significant NBA figures were involved, and that virtually meaningless late-season Blazers-Bulls game is a foundational event.

At the time of the game, the Blazers were 32-40, soon to miss the playoffs, and the Bulls were 34-38, on their way to the Eastern Conference play-in game.

It’s at this point that the federal indictment zeroes in on this specific game, noting that prior to the game an individual identified as “Co-Conspirator 8” told one of the defendants, Eric Earnest, that “the Trail Blazers were going to be tanking (i.e. intentionally losing) to increase their odds of getting a better draft pick in the upcoming NBA draft.”

Co-Conspirator 8 informed Earnest, prior to the news becoming public, that several of the Blazers’ best players would not be playing. According to the indictment, Earnest gave the inside information to Marves Fairley, another defendant, for the purposes of betting on the game. Fairley promised to pay Earnest at least $5,000 if the bets paid off.

Fairley and another defendant, Shane Hennen, along with another individual termed “Co-Conspirator 1” who was an NBA player at the time, then placed approximately $100,000 worth of bets against the Blazers.

The Bulls won the game decisively, 124-96, as many of the Blazers’ best players, including Damian Lillard, did not play. The Blazers’ four highest per-game scorers of the season — Lillard, Anfernee Simons, Jerami Grant and Jusuf Nurkic — did not play that game.

Lillard, the Blazers’ leading scorer that season, had scored 30 points, and Nurkic 20 points, just two nights before against the Utah Jazz. Both Lillard and Nurkic were shut down for the season starting with the March 24 game. The Blazers would end the season with the fifth-best odds to win the 2023 draft lottery, and ended up with the third pick in the draft topped by Victor Wembanyama.

A question looming over this game: Who is Co-Conspirator 8?

The indictment identifies Co-Conspirator 8 as “a resident [of] Oregon” and “an NBA player from approximately 1997 through 2014, and an NBA coach since at least 2021.”

 

[julius]

"We arrest people for crimes"
Uh huh....

 

[julius]

It started and almost all of it was done before his corrupt ass got in there.

Well, the investigation may have started then but doesn't mean that they didn't add people to the list once they took over.

 

[THE HCP]

had sex with team employee

He had a consensual affair with a coworker. Just so happened to be a boss’ wife….. so she didn’t get fired, but he did. Is that what you are talking about?

 

[inconceivable]

He had a consensual affair with a coworker. Just so happened to be a boss’ wife….. so she didn’t get fired, but he did. Is that what you are talking about?

yeah, he did that while engaged to a celebrity he had been a long time