NBA gambling investigations: How strong are cases against Billups, Rozier? - ESPN

Over the past week, a pair of federal indictments involving an active NBA player in Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier; an active NBA head coach in Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups; and a former NBA player and coach in Damon Jones have 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.

Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Heat guard Terry Rozier, and former Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones were arrested as part of a pair of wide-ranging investigations related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities announced.

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• Greenberg: How FBI says poker games were rigged

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