India, Oct. 23 -- Former basketball player and now coach of the NBA team Portland Trail Blazers, Chauncey Billups, and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier were arrested on Thursday for alleged involvement in illegal gambling, US officials said.

Their arrest is part of a wider set of investigations by the FBI into illegal gambling. And it involves card games, the mafia, and possibly fixing NBA matches.

Rigging poker, with a mafia link: Charges against Billups are not necessarily about basketball. A former Detroit Pistons star who is in the Hall of Fame of the American basketball league, Bilups allegedly rigged illegal poker games that were tied to Mafia crime families, FBI Director Kash Patel said.

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