Alleged gambling ring involving NBA players used X-ray technology, hidden devices to rig poker games: feds

Fox News correspondent Nate Foy details Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups’ alleged involvement in rigged poker schemes and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier reportedly intentionally exiting games with ‘injuries’ on ‘America Reports.’

Details have emerged about the technology used to rig poker games in the illegal gambling scheme that allegedly included NBA Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and retired NBA player Damon Jones. 

Documents released by the FBI allege the conspirators used a card-shuffling machine that used concealed technology to read the cards in the deck and predict which player at the table had the best hand, and relayed that information via interstate wires to an off-site operator. 

According to the documents, that operator allegedly communicated that information back to a lead conspirator at the poker table, who used signals to relay the information with other conspirators at the table. 

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The FBI documents also allege that the cheating players used other technology, including electronic chip trays that could secretly read cards placed on the table, card analyzers that could also detect which cards were on the table, and invisible markings placed on the cards that could only be seen with the help of specially-designed contact lenses or glasses. 

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella Jr. called it "one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States," and detailed the type of technology that was used at a press conference on Thursday. 

"They used off-the-shelf shuffling machines that had been secretly altered in