advancedmatt | DEN

23 | a day ago

This appears to be outdated. Looks like Billups’ trial date was moved to next March.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/former-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-trial-moved-to-march/ar-AA2bUkmA

Jury selection for the trial will now begin March 8 in a Brooklyn federal court. Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr. granted the delay Tuesday, when Billups and three of his attorneys — Marc Mukasey, Torrey Young and Michael Westfal — appeared with a handful of other defendants at a status hearing in Brooklyn.

CoreySteel [OP] | Slovenia

25 | a day ago

Oh, so he’s also involved in the second case. Yikes.

On top of that, Billups has been connected to a second federal case involving a sports-betting scheme in which a person matching Billups’ identity allegedly shared insider information about NBA games.

advancedmatt | DEN

6 | 21 hours ago

Yeah, if the feds’ allegations are true, then he may have owed favors to some people to whom you don’t want to owe favors.

MJRuinedMyChildhood | CHA

761 | a day ago

If he goes to jail, would Dundon try to make him the head coach again but use the forced prison labor system to not pay him more than 0.14 an hour

Neat-Independence185

247 | a day ago

With ideas like that you’re going to land a front office job for the blazers! Please don’t ask about pay or benefits.

axecalibur | NYK

2 | 40 minutes ago

Volunteer position

superfoodtown

59 | a day ago

What a mailbag question

I_Set_3_Alarms | BOS

24 | a day ago

At the least he knows once he’s out of prison, Dundon can offer him a dirt cheap contract

blackmarksonpaper | POR

12 | 20 hours ago

He’d take him on work release if he got a head coach for less than 7 figures.

AnotherStatsGuy | NOP

17 | a day ago

Don’t give Dundon any ideas.

Cletus_Starfish | POR

6 | 19 hours ago

I put nothing past El Cheapo

SlamDunkly | POR

15 | a day ago

This is the best Dundon joke I’ve heard in months.

TrustyAndTrue | TOR

7 | 21 hours ago

You a visionary.

Brabochokemightwork | NYK

5 | 20 hours ago

He tries to use Billup’s sentencing as part of his community service

humberriverdam | TOR

6 | a day ago

Yup, these are my readers.

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1 | a day ago

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Gonstachio

420 | a day ago

I don’t get it. It’s illegal to have Italian friends these days?

mydrumluck | NYK

54 | a day ago

This is anti-Italian discrimination

butt_fun | LAC

23 | 21 hours ago

He discovered America is what he did

cz03se | CHI

18 | 21 hours ago

In this household Chauncey Billupsnis an American hero!!

HereComesJustice | SAS

130 | a day ago

I’ll have the Gabagool

Pauliehatestheadmins

73 | a day ago

It’s a stereotype! And it’s offensive

RicetheE30 | CHI

21 | a day ago

Can’t eat some spaghetti without rousing suspicion…

Complete_Chocolate_2 | LAC

3 | a day ago

I prefer the Galamad

brownmagician | TOR

1 | 8 hours ago

with provolone and vinegar peppers?

LukeBabbitt | POR

67 | a day ago

That’s a stereotype and it’s offenshive

yrogerg123 | NYK

41 | a day ago

There is no mafia ENDASTORY

ShatteredAnus | NYK

10 | a day ago

Ok grandpa, but what does that have to do with Pistol Pete?

coleyboley25 | OKC

23 | a day ago

It’s a me, a Chauncey 🤌🏼

Melli25510

10 | a day ago

Those guys do great work in the waste sanitation buisness am I right Tone?

cmmpssh | MIL

22 | a day ago

This is democracy manifest

sourdieselfuel | MIL

3 | a day ago

I see you know your judo well!

BushyBrowz | NYK

8 | 21 hours ago

What is the charge? Eating a meal?? A succulent Chinese meal??

Zeppelanoid | TOR

3 | 18 hours ago

Get your hand off my limp penis!

BehavioralSink | POR

6 | a day ago

I should call my plumber

OstrichShort3348

8 | a day ago

I’ll tell ya what it is! It’s anti-italian discrimination!

TripSixRick

1 | 7 hours ago

END OF SUBJECT

BushyBrowz | NYK

3 | a day ago

This is Black Tony erasure

raventhehippie | ORL

2 | 7 hours ago

Chauncey are you in the mafia?

pdizo916

-13 | a day ago

Lol right. Sports betting is legal but playing poker isn’t?

asonkidd

17 | a day ago

You understand he was scamming people right? They were rigging games and using his clout to get high rollers into the games. Half the people already snitched. Dude is beyond cooked.

One_Abrocoma_7309

2 | a day ago

He needs to plea. If he’s convicted they will break it off sentence wise.

ngerb_5 | IND

267 | a day ago

Chauncey Billups winning percentage as a head coach: .356

Federal Prosecutors on mob case: .483

Splittinghairs7 | Gran Destino

102 | a day ago

Technically, it’s 100% guilty rate because none of the defendants have won any acquittals yet.

BehavioralSink | POR

56 | a day ago

Yeah, it’s more of a progress bar percentage than a win percentage.

joshuads | MIL

25 | a day ago

It is 15-0 for the Feds. 16 games remaining to be played. We need a LeBron James commercial promoting polymarket bets that the Feds will sweep the rest too.

Intensive__Purposes

1 | 6 hours ago

Worth pointing out that the acquittal rate in federal cases is about 0.4%. Only about 2.3% go to trial. ~90% plead guilty. 8% are dismissed.

DiamondsInHerButt | West

2 | 2 hours ago

Largely a money deal more than an actually good case deal. Most people who beat the feds either have money, like Chauncey, or have lawyers who can point out obvious flaws in the case.

I think Chauncey’s lawyers will have both given what I’ve read about the case. Sounds like the main instigator was a government informant who used immunity to keep doing crime.

Honestly don’t think the government would have this level of hard on for this case if it weren’t for Stern fucking the FBI and DOJ over on the Donaghy case. They have a grudge.

Splittinghairs7 | Gran Destino

1 | 5 hours ago

So these prosecutors are over performing so far

Blank_Canvas21 | SAS

6 | a day ago

that’s actually impressive numbers by the mob. Doesn’t a lot of these cases go the prosecutors way?

Afromantis8 | LAL

25 | a day ago

15 out of 31 have already pleaded guilty, but the prosecutors haven’t finished the job yet (insert Kobe gif)

E-Double

1 | 20 hours ago

yeah, they get to call their own charges

AntSmith777 | LAL

26 | a day ago

Wearing see-through lenses is insane

JOKER4GOAT | DEN

13 | a day ago

Dealer keeping it inconspicuous:

mhgiantsfan | SAS

94 | a day ago

Mob? That’s a stereotype and it’s offensive!

Frodounchainedd | LAL

25 | a day ago

He’s just here to sell insurance

skibagpumpgod | LAL

17 | a day ago

In this house Chauncey Billups is a hero!

CantaloupeCamper | MIN

25 | a day ago

Wild that these guys seem to have all the options in the world and choose… this.

FortyEightyFilms

3 | 5 hours ago

It’s wild what rich people decide to do with their time. I think about our company’s CEO. Bro, why can’t you think of anything better to do than Zoom meetings talking about synergy? You’re already rich enough to fuck off.

CantaloupeCamper | MIN

1 | 4 hours ago

Yeah I’m hitting up all the theme parks and paying to skip the line would keep me busy for a while.

Beach house.

Maybe learn woodworking…

Puppetmaster858 | PHX

42 | a day ago

Chauncey billups, whatever happened there?

JOKER4GOAT | DEN

16 | a day ago

He didn’t have the makings of a varsity scamlete.

crusader104 | CLE

13 | a day ago

Poor Chauncey just tryna get his Billsup

91-92-93--96-97-98 | CHI

1 | 21 hours ago

Unfortunately he’s now Big Shot Mob

heat_fan_ | TOR

10 | a day ago

He’s definitely cooked

kyle_993 | TOR

28 | a day ago

Wasn’t Gilbert Arenas involved in this too?

Referrals23

31 | a day ago

Arenas claims he’s not involved in this, his case is different

Consistent_Grab_6808

12 | a day ago

This is allegedly italian mafia. Arenas was allegedly implicated with Israeli organized crime

TigerWizardDresser

2 | 4 hours ago

Aka the US Government

Impressive-Potato

1 | 3 hours ago

Boom roasted

MrHeavySilence | GSW

13 | a day ago

Yep pretty sure he still has to go on trial at some point

SaintNakavi | ORL

29 | a day ago

I thought he rolled over already? Never can keep up with these dudes ridiculous lives.

Complete-Apricot-591 | TOR

17 | a day ago

Yea, I think he’s cooked

blueborders | PHX

7 | a day ago

I remember when people used the outcome of the A.I Billups trade to shit on A.I’s character.

nomanslandtron2

2 | 21 hours ago

Did you not hear about the cancer charity event in Australia this year? AI is a pos

hiimsubclavian

2 | 8 hours ago

AI is the future, it’s gonna transform the global economy!

ProgressionPeak

1 | 3 hours ago

“did you not hear about that one thing that one time in venezuela? pretty sure he was involved somehow. that guy, his entire career, his entire legacy, everything he’s ever done, is a piece of shit”

that’s what our society has become. just looking for any reason to be outraged and cancel people

frallet | MIN

-4 | 20 hours ago

Meh

IHateTKVKMHHH | DET

0 | 18 hours ago

Just because Chauncey turned out to be shitty, doesn’t mean A.I wasn’t shitty also. He was an egomaniacal diva who turned the Pistons locker room toxic.

RathOfMan49 | GSW

6 | 21 hours ago

Having just completed a Sopranos rewatch recently, these comments are very satisfying

getsomesleep1

4 | 20 hours ago

I’m on the last episode of my first watch!

TigerWizardDresser

1 | 4 hours ago

He dies

getsomesleep1

1 | 34 minutes ago

I mean, figured that but got through it by now anyway.

Detonation | DET

4 | 21 hours ago

This bozo used to be my flair for years.

fwoompf | DET

3 | a day ago

Happy birthday Mr Big Mess

Human_Proposal809

1 | 19 hours ago

Mr. Betting Charlatan

Paralta | MIA

3 | a day ago

Whos playing Chauncey in the movie?

comeonbjxgo

4 | a day ago

Any lawyers in here can shed light why Billups is taking such a massive risk going to trial? Not to mention the fees must be absurd for this

Not_RZA_ | LAL

5 | 17 hours ago

You think real lawyers are spending their time on this sub? LMFAO

Severe_Tap_4913

1 | 13 hours ago

Why wouldn’t there be NBA lawyer fans?

E-Double

3 | 20 hours ago

He hasn’t gone to trial yet and has a history of taking late shots. Hope is worth money if you got it.

jeffwinger_esq

1 | 6 hours ago

It is possible that the feds have not offered him a deal.

Zawula11

2 | a day ago

So basically opening scenes from Ocean’s 11?

LordHussyPants | BOS

3 | 17 hours ago

more austin powers

black_metronome | NYK

2 | a day ago

Chauncey is going to the fed pen isn’t he

Frito_Pendejo_ | POR

3 | 17 hours ago

Federal-pound-me-in-the-ass prison is the correct verbiage, I believe….

PlasmaHeat | POR

2 | a day ago

Chauncey Billups getting banished to the shadow realm (the legal system) is the best thing that happened to the Blazers throughout his tenure.

ZerroTheDragon | IND

1 | a day ago

they took him out of 2K this year due to this I believe

Fearless-Lettuce-370

1 | 21 hours ago

Begging people to do a google search before posting news here. Trial has been moved to March. The source is a twitter comment on an outdated article.

StarlingRover | LAL

1 | 16 hours ago

why doesn’t it say former nba coach

trala7 | POR

1 | 8 hours ago

He’s still employed technically

0bscr3

1 | 13 hours ago

Who’s hiring

BillDanceParty

1 | 11 hours ago

Glorified crew…

mucho-gusto | CLE

1 | 6 hours ago

Funny how everyone in the sports betting thread the other day was talking up how private poker games have better odds and are more fair than betting on poly market and kalshit, just forgot about this whole story of rigged poker game conspiracies

IamYouamI123 | LAL

0 | a day ago

Yet Pedophile Trump continues to rape every law imaginable while stealing everything he can. Oh but don’t worry guys we caught the scary gamblers! What a joke, I don’t give a fuck about any laws until Dumb Fuck Donald is arrested and charged with treason.

One_Abrocoma_7309

1 | a day ago

Does every single thread need to have a Trump comment.

Sea_Dawgz

1 | a day ago

i vote not guilty by reason of mvp

Snoo-26902

1 | a day ago

Once a college or NBA person gets caught cheating, they cant get a job in basketball as a ball boy…They’re finished.

If Chancey gets acquitted, maybe then, but nothing less.

The problem with those fighting the case is they better win, or they can get 20-plus years or more. If you plead guilty, the penalties are far less than if you go to trial and get convicted.

Maybe Trump can pardon Chancey.

frallet | MIN

2 | 20 hours ago

I think having a job in the NBA is the least of his worries at the moment and that ships already sailed. Not good

Snoo-26902

1 | 17 hours ago

After he pays his lawyers’ fees, he may want to return to the NBA if he is acquitted.

frallet | MIN

3 | 16 hours ago

Yea, I’m just not sure any teams are going to want anything to do with him regardless of the outcome of the trial if it’s going the direction that it seems to be

josephseeed | DET

1 | 10 hours ago

I would be very disappointed if anyone gave Chauncey an nba job again. Between the rape allegations leading up to the draft and mobbed up poker game it is clear he is an awful person.

Snoo-26902

-1 | 9 hours ago

I never heard of the rape allegations. But never forget that being accused of something doesn’t mean a person is necessarily guilty. You ignorant fool, AND I NEVER SAID HE WAS innocent of anything. Why don’t you read what I wrote? We were just conversing on the gambling issue.

josephseeed | DET

2 | 8 hours ago

I would suggest you look into the details. It’s grim.

trala7 | POR

2 | 8 hours ago

God there’s always one… Weird how you lot only come out of the woodwork preaching innocence around sexual crimes against women.

Triggered-Snowflake1

1 | 7 hours ago

Nah that’s BS. Allegations are just allegations.

Snoo-26902

1 | 4 hours ago

What are you talking about? I never said he was innocent. I didnt even know what he accused him of, so how can I know that he is innocent? I NEVER SAID HE WAS innocent of anything. HOW WOULD I KNOW WHETHER HE’S INNOCENT OR NOT? Why don’t you read what I wrote? We were just conversing on the gambling issue.

Infamous_Wheel_8489

-2 | a day ago

Give em hell Chauncey!

SimpleCandle5158 | DET

0 | 20 hours ago

it took this long to go to trial jesus

jboarei | POR

3 | 20 hours ago

About a year is not too crazy. Lots of suspects all with separate lawyers etc.

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Zywooooooo181 | LAL

13 | a day ago

Lol what

Ibaka_flocka | OKC

8 | a day ago

He’s baiting for the “he has a ring and those others don’t”

PuffPuffPassNails

6 | a day ago

Calm down Chauncey Billups.

TurbulentJudge1000

1 | a day ago

I’ll take prime Billups over Westbrook in terms of building a title contender.

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[Glatzer] Former NBA star Chauncey Billups goes to trial on November 2 on federal charges tied to Mob-run rigged poker games. 15 of 31 defendants have already pleaded guilty.