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Tiago Splitter named interim Trail Blazers coach following arrest of Chauncey Billups, ESPN reports
The arrest of Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups came just hours after the team held their 2025-26 season opener game at the Moda Center.

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After Chauncey Billups' arrest, Blazers return to work vs. Warriors
Who is Chauncey Billups? Trail Blazers coach arrested in FBI gambling probe
How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting
A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.

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An NBA betting scandal erupts, plus gauging the Blue Jays’ chances
Chauncey Billups released from custody amid sports betting and Mafia-backed poker charges
From trick contact lenses to NBA 'Face Cards' — how the mob allegedly rigged high-stakes poker games
These NBA stars were referred to as "Face Cards," slang for someone with an attractive face, and would get a cut of the proceeds "in exchange for their participation in the scheme."

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NBA Head Coach And Player Charged In Sprawling Sports Betting And Mafia-Backed Poker Schemes
X-ray tables, rigged card shufflers and collusion: How Chauncey Billups allegedly helped the Mafia cheat players out of millions at illegal poker games
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Blazers interim coach Tiago Splitter speaks to media before first game following Billups scandal

Prior to the Portland Trail Blazers game against the Golden State Warriors on Friday, interim coach Tiago Splitter is speaking to the media in the wake of allegations surrounding head coach
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Blazers put Rockets on brink with win in another OT session

PORTLAND, Ore. -- There was some shouting going on in the Trail Blazers' locker room after they fell behind by 10 points at halftime to the Rockets. Up 2-1 in their first playoff series since 2011, the Blazers didn't want to mess up Game 4, especially in ...
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