NBA guard Terry Rozier may get hit with new charges in alleged gambling scheme

Federal prosecutors connected Monday said they were consenting to question further charges against NBA subordinate Terry Rozier successful the gambling ungraded that rocked the league during the 2025-26 season.

Prosecutors said they sought to record superseding charges of bribery successful sports and honorable services ligament fraud during a hearing. Prosecutors said they had grounds that the erstwhile Miami Heat defender solicited and received a bribe amid the alleged gambling scheme.

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Miami Heat's Terry Rozier arrives astatine Brooklyn national tribunal successful New York connected Monday, April 27, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Rozier filed a question to disregard charges against him arsenic his attorneys argued the ligament fraud complaint is based connected a mentation that the Supreme Court rejected 2 years agone and that the authorities failed to beryllium the wealth laundering conspiracy claims.

Prosecutors argued that the defendants lied and cheated to bargain wealth and that it was a classical ligament fraud case.

"Our question to disregard is based connected the thought that they picked an invalid ineligible mentation to prosecute Terry Rozier," Rozier’s lawyer Jim Trusty told ESPN. "We'll spot what they bash to effort to hole that successful the superseding indictment, but I expect we'll person problems with it."

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Miami Heat's Terry Rozier arrives astatine Brooklyn national tribunal successful New York connected Monday, April 27, 2026. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Rozier was arrested implicit his alleged engagement stemming from a crippled successful 2023 successful which helium played little than 10 minutes, citing a ft injury. Multiple radical placed high-stakes wagers connected Rozier to execute poorly earlier the game, each of whom won.

Authorities alleged that Rozier told a puerility person that helium would region himself from a March 2023 crippled betwixt the Charlotte Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans. The person allegedly shared the accusation to bettors for profit, who past made wagers connected the nether of definite Rozier statistics, according to an indictment.

Neither Hornets officials nor betting companies were made alert of Rozier's plan, according to the Department of Justice. The Hornets aboriginal traded Rozier to the Heat.

Miami waived Rozier earlier this month.

Rozier was 1 of much than 30 people, on with NBA figures Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones, who were portion of FBI probes into alleged amerciable gambling with ties to organized transgression families. Billups and Jones allegedly participated successful rigged poker games, portion Jones besides allegedly leaked non-public accusation astir NBA games truthful those adjacent to him could spot wagers with a competitory advantage.

Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier looks connected during the 2nd fractional of an NBA crippled against the Washington Wizards successful Washington connected March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Nick Wass, File)

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Damon Jones is expected to plead blameworthy to charges connected Tuesday.

Fox News’ Maria Paronich and Ryan Morik contributed to this report.