NBA guard Terry Rozier may get hit with new charges in alleged gambling scheme

Federal prosecutors connected Monday said they were consenting to activity further charges against NBA subordinate Terry Rozier successful nan gambling ungraded that rocked nan convention during nan 2025-26 season.

Prosecutors said they sought to record superseding charges of bribery successful sports and honorable services ligament fraud during a hearing. Prosecutors said they had grounds that nan erstwhile Miami Heat defender solicited and received a bribe amid nan alleged gambling scheme.

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Miami Heat's Terry Rozier arrives astatine Brooklyn national tribunal successful New York connected Monday, April 27, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Rozier revenge a mobility to disregard charges against him arsenic his attorneys based on nan ligament fraud complaint is based connected a mentation that nan Supreme Court rejected 2 years agone and that nan authorities grounded to beryllium nan money laundering conspiracy claims.

Prosecutors based on that nan defendants lied and cheated to bargain money and that it was a classical ligament fraud case.

"Our mobility to disregard is based connected nan thought that they picked an invalid ineligible mentation to prosecute Terry Rozier," Rozier’s lawyer Jim Trusty told ESPN. "We'll spot what they do to effort to hole that successful nan superseding indictment, but I expect we'll person problems pinch it."

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Miami Heat's Terry Rozier arrives astatine Brooklyn national tribunal successful New York connected Monday, April 27, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Rozier was arrested complete his alleged engagement stemming from a crippled successful 2023 successful which he played little than 10 minutes, citing a ft injury. Multiple group placed high-stakes wagers connected Rozier to execute poorly earlier nan game, each of whom won.

Authorities alleged that Rozier told a puerility friend that he would region himself from a March 2023 crippled betwixt nan Charlotte Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans. The friend allegedly shared nan accusation to bettors for profit, who past made wagers connected nan nether of definite Rozier statistics, according to an indictment.

Neither Hornets officials nor betting companies were made alert of Rozier's plan, according to nan Department of Justice. The Hornets later traded Rozier to nan Heat.

Miami waived Rozier earlier this month.

Rozier was 1 of much than 30 people, on pinch NBA figures Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones, who were portion of FBI probes into alleged forbidden gambling pinch ties to organized crime families. Billups and Jones allegedly participated successful rigged poker games, while Jones besides allegedly leaked non-public accusation astir NBA games truthful those adjacent to him could spot wagers pinch a competitory advantage.

Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier looks connected during nan 2nd half of an NBA crippled against nan Washington Wizards successful Washington connected March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

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Damon Jones is expected to plead blameworthy to charges connected Tuesday.

Fox News’ Maria Paronich and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.