Overview
- An NBA memo sent Monday to all 30 teams begins a review of injury reporting, personnel education, and enhanced monitoring that includes expanded use of AI.
- The memo flags proposition bets on individual performance as a heightened integrity risk and says additional legal and regulatory scrutiny is needed.
- A bipartisan Senate Commerce Committee letter to Commissioner Adam Silver requests documents on gambling policies, past investigations, and the league’s prior review that cleared Terry Rozier.
- Federal indictments unsealed last week charged more than 30 people, including Rozier, Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones, in overlapping cases alleging insider tips for prop bets and a mafia-linked poker scheme.
- Prosecutors allege Rozier shared nonpublic plans to exit a March 23, 2023 game, enabling over $200,000 in winning prop wagers, while Billups is charged in a rigged high-stakes poker operation and Jones is accused of leaking injury information; Rozier and Billups are on leave and deny wrongdoing.