{"id":465982,"date":"2025-10-24T08:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=465982"},"modified":"2025-10-24T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:05:59","slug":"nba-betting-scandal-damon-jones-allegedly-leaked-injury-info-on-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-betting-scandal-damon-jones-allegedly-leaked-injury-info-on-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Betting Scandal: Damon Jones Allegedly Leaked Injury Info on LeBron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1447\">The <strong data-start=\"1191\" data-end=\"1229\">FBI\u2019s sports betting investigation<\/strong> that led to the arrests of <strong data-start=\"1257\" data-end=\"1277\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1282\" data-end=\"1298\">Terry Rozier<\/strong> has now implicated former NBA player <strong data-start=\"1336\" data-end=\"1351\">Damon Jones<\/strong>, who allegedly <strong data-start=\"1367\" data-end=\"1428\">leaked confidential injury information about LeBron James<\/strong>, <em data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1436\">ESPN<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1449\" data-end=\"1747\">James, identified as the \u201cprominent player\u201d in the indictment, is <strong data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1544\">not accused of wrongdoing<\/strong>. Prosecutors allege Jones texted a co-conspirator before the <strong data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1636\">Feb. 9, 2023, Lakers\u2013Bucks<\/strong> game urging them to \u201cbet big on Milwaukee\u201d because James would sit out. The Lakers lost 115-106 without him.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1749\" data-end=\"2008\">Jones is also accused of sharing nonpublic details before another Lakers game in 2024. The FBI says <strong data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1876\">34 people were arrested<\/strong> across multiple states in a case also involving <strong data-start=\"1925\" data-end=\"1958\">Mafia-linked poker operations<\/strong>. The Lakers and James have declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James, identified as the \u201cprominent player\u201d in the indictment, is not accused of wrongdoing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-465982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465982"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=465982"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=465982"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=465982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}