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NBA gambling investigations: How strong are cases against Billups, Rozier? – ESPNSkip to main contentSkip to navigation<>Hoop Collective Q&A: What are the next steps in the NBA’s gambling investigations?Miami Heat5dTim Bontemps and Brian WindhorstRisers and fallers: Trade for Jaylen Brown, trade away Austin Reaves3dSteve AlexanderplayHow are the Trail Blazers dealing with Chauncey Billups’ absence? (1:09)Ramona Shelburne explains how Chauncey Billups’ leave is impacting the Trail Blazers. (1:09)Tim BontempsCloseTim BontempsESPN Senior WriterTim Bontemps is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com who covers the league and what’s impacting it on and off the court, including trade deadline intel, expansion and his MVP Straw Polls. You can find Tim alongside Brian Windhorst and Tim MacMahon onThe Hoop Collectivepodcast.Follow on XBrian WindhorstCloseBrian WindhorstESPN Senior WriterESPN.com NBA writer since 2010Covered Cleveland Cavs for seven yearsAuthor of two booksFollow on XOct 29, 2025, 09:17 AM ETEmailPrintOver the past week,a pair of federal indictmentsinvolving an active NBA player inMiami HeatguardTerry Rozier; an active NBA head coach inPortland Trail Blazerscoach Chauncey Billups; and a former NBA player and coach inDamon Joneshave dominated the news cycle.To try to get a better understanding of what is contained in those indictments, how such cases come together and how each of them could proceed from here, we spoke to Kate Reilly, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, for Wednesday’s episode of”The Hoop Collective” podcast.Reilly works in Pryor Cashman’s white collar and regulatory enforcement group. What makes her a particularly compelling voice on this topic is her previous job, in which she spent 11 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York.In that role, which she left in January, Reilly was a federal prosecutor who handled fraud cases and, for her final few years in office, was the chief of the complex frauds and cybercrime unit. In other words, she oversaw cases in areas relating to financial crime and cybercrime.So although Reilly did not, at any point, work on either of the indictments that were announced last week by the Eastern District office in Brooklyn, she does have intimate knowledge of these sorts of cases and walked us through her thoughts on the relative strength of both indictments; how the NBA would, theoretically, work with the government throughout the cases; and what could come next.The questions and answers are below, lightly edited for clarity.Click herefor the full interview:Q: Can you explain the charges, in as much of layman’s terms as you can, for basketball fans?A:There were two separate indictments. An indictment is just a charging instrument that a grand jury returns. So the prosecutors presented evidence, and the grand jury voted through the indictments.The first indictment, and I think the more traditional indictment, is related to illegal poker games. And the allegations are th…
Published: 2025-11-02T13:28:41
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