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(NewsNation) — The lawyer of NBA prima Terry Rozier, Jim Trusty, joined NewsNation to support his lawsuit aft helium was arrested successful transportation with a national probe into sports gambling and rigged poker games.
Rozier, a defender for the Miami Heat, is accused of participating successful an amerciable sports betting strategy utilizing backstage insider NBA information, according to officials.
Rozier and different defendants “had entree to backstage accusation known by NBA players oregon NBA coaches that was apt to impact the result of games oregon players’ performances, and provided that accusation to different co-conspirators successful speech for either a level interest oregon a stock of betting profits,” the indictment says.
Trusty said his client, who is presently connected permission from the Heat, has not done thing incorrect and was antecedently cleared by the NBA during an probe into antithetic betting enactment successful March 2023.
"If you're saying he's portion of a conspiracy, he's got to beryllium idiosyncratic who is trying to facilitate these bets against him performing well. That ne'er happened," Trusty told NewsNation.
"This is simply a feline who got to the extremity of the play with the Hornets banged up ... there's a batch of radical that were successful a presumption to cognize that helium was banged up.
"Whether oregon not helium confided successful immoderate radical oregon fto it retired that helium was hurt, it doesn't matter. That's not the aforesaid arsenic conspiring. And truthful I'm not seeing smoking weapon grounds successful the indictment," helium added.
Trusty besides suggested the national authorities is utilizing Rozier arsenic a "trophy" for its investigation.
