{"id":466052,"date":"2025-10-24T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466052"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T13:38:37","slug":"the-first-images-after-chauncey-billups-release-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/the-first-images-after-chauncey-billups-release-from-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"The first images after Chauncey Billups&#8217; release from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1571\"><strong data-start=\"1331\" data-end=\"1357\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1364\" data-end=\"1384\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong> was <strong data-start=\"1389\" data-end=\"1410\">released Thursday<\/strong> after appearing in U.S. District Court in Portland on <strong data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1519\">wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges<\/strong> tied to a federal illegal gambling investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1933\">The 49-year-old <strong data-start=\"1589\" data-end=\"1606\">Hall of Famer<\/strong>, who will next appear in <strong data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1655\">New York on Nov. 24<\/strong>, agreed to travel restrictions, surrendered his passport, and is <strong data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1745\">barred from gambling<\/strong>. Billups is among <strong data-start=\"1764\" data-end=\"1781\">34 defendants<\/strong>, including <strong data-start=\"1793\" data-end=\"1809\">Terry Rozier<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"1829\">Damon Jones<\/strong>, accused of involvement in illegal poker operations allegedly connected to New York\u2019s crime families.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1935\" data-end=\"2214\">Attorney <strong data-start=\"1944\" data-end=\"1961\">Chris Heywood<\/strong> called Billups \u201c<strong data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"2000\">a man of integrity<\/strong>,\u201d vowing to \u201c<strong data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2087\">fight these allegations with the same tenacity that marked his career<\/strong>.\u201d Prosecutors link him to a co-conspirator who tipped off bettors that Portland would rest players before a March 2023 game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chauncey Billups leaving the courthouse in Portland, Oregon \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested early Thursday morning as part of a federal investigation into illegal gambling activities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OGjRNmeHyG\">pic.twitter.com\/OGjRNmeHyG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1981498079472996514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups was released Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":466051,"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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-466052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The first images after Chauncey Billups&#039; 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