{"id":470217,"date":"2025-11-17T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=470217"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:38:30","slug":"nba-requests-lakers-phones-documents-amid-gambling-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-requests-lakers-phones-documents-amid-gambling-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA requests Lakers\u2019 phones, documents amid gambling probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1508\" data-end=\"1814\">The <strong data-start=\"1512\" data-end=\"1519\">NBA<\/strong> has asked the <strong data-start=\"1534\" data-end=\"1556\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> and several other teams to provide <strong data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1625\">phones and internal documents<\/strong> as part of its <strong data-start=\"1641\" data-end=\"1675\">renewed gambling investigation<\/strong>, following recent arrests by the <strong data-start=\"1709\" data-end=\"1716\">FBI<\/strong> involving <strong data-start=\"1727\" data-end=\"1743\">Terry Rozier<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1765\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1786\">Damon Jones<\/strong> on fraud-related charges.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1816\" data-end=\"2146\">According to reports, <strong data-start=\"1838\" data-end=\"1847\">Jones<\/strong> allegedly shared <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1913\">information about LeBron James\u2019 availability<\/strong> to facilitate betting against the Lakers. The league\u2019s request includes property from <strong data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2024\">trainer Mike Mancias<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2029\" data-end=\"2053\">executive Randy Mims<\/strong>, both long associated with James. Neither has been charged nor named in federal documents.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2148\" data-end=\"2422\">There is <strong data-start=\"2157\" data-end=\"2197\">no evidence implicating LeBron James<\/strong>, and sources emphasize the Lakers are among several teams cooperating with the probe. The NBA\u2019s move follows <strong data-start=\"2307\" data-end=\"2333\">pressure from Congress<\/strong> and aims to reinforce confidence in the league\u2019s <strong data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2419\">anti-gambling integrity policies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2424\" data-end=\"2506\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League expands investigation; no evidence implicating LeBron James<\/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-470217","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\/470217","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=470217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470217\/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=470217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470217"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=470217"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=470217"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=470217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}