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(NewsNation) — Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy is unsurprised that a current NBA subordinate and coach were among much than 30 radical arrested Thursday successful transportation with a national probe into sports gambling and rigged poker games.
Donaghy served 15 months successful situation aft pleading blameworthy to ligament fraud and transmitting betting accusation for taking thousands of dollars from a gambler for wrong tips connected games successful 2008.
He joined "CUOMO" to sermon the apprehension and alleged engagement of Portland Trail Blazers caput manager Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier, and the Mafia.
"Definitely not amazed with what's going on. I deliberation this is conscionable the extremity of the iceberg," Donaghy told NewsNation.
In fact, helium believes determination is greater imaginable for a larger gambling ungraded astatine the assemblage sports level.
"You person these young athletes that aren't going to marque it to the adjacent level, and idiosyncratic is going to connection them wealth to possibly hole a crippled and lone triumph by 12 alternatively than 15, and they're going to instrumentality that wealth due to the fact that they're going to request a mode to enactment their family," Donaghy said.
Billups, who was arrested successful Oregon, is charged successful a abstracted indictment alleging a wide-ranging strategy to rig underground poker games connected to the La Cosa Nostra transgression families, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Rozier is accused of participating successful an amerciable sports betting strategy utilizing backstage insider NBA information, according to officials.
Both men are connected permission from their respective NBA franchises.
NewsNation's Safia Samee Ali contributed to this report.
