{"id":468399,"date":"2025-11-07T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=468399"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:37:32","slug":"ex-nba-player-damon-jones-pleads-not-guilty-in-gambling-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ex-nba-player-damon-jones-pleads-not-guilty-in-gambling-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA player Damon Jones pleads not guilty in gambling case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1730\">Former NBA player and assistant coach <strong data-start=\"1394\" data-end=\"1409\">Damon Jones<\/strong> pleaded <strong data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1432\">not guilty<\/strong> to charges of profiting from rigged poker games and selling insider injury information about <strong data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1542\">LeBron James<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1547\" data-end=\"1564\">Anthony Davis<\/strong> to bettors.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1730\">The 49-year-old appeared in federal court in Brooklyn as part of a wider gambling probe that also implicated <strong data-start=\"1686\" data-end=\"1706\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1727\">Terry Rozier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1732\" data-end=\"2031\">Prosecutors allege Jones sold tips on Lakers player injuries for cash and took part in poker games rigged by members of New York crime families. Jones, who earned over $20 million during an 11-year NBA career, remains free on a <strong data-start=\"1960\" data-end=\"1977\">$200,000 bond<\/strong> while his lawyer said plea negotiations may follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones pleaded not guilty to charges of profiting from rigged poker games and selling insider injury information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":465919,"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-468399","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\/2025\/10\/0tmy4qexhakb1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468399","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=468399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468399"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=468399"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=468399"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=468399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}