Adam Silver reveals NBA had insufficient evidence in its Terry Rozier gambling investigation in 2023
NBA commissioner Adam Silver admits the NBA investigated then-Hornets guard Terry Rozier over potential sports betting infractions in 2023.Speaking to Amazon Prime after the first quarter of Friday’s Knicks-Celtics game at the Garden, Silver said that Rozier cooperated with NBA investigators, but the league concluded there was “insufficient evidence” to discipline the player.The FBI arrested Rozier — now a member of the Heat — and others Thursday in a widespread gambling probe, with Portland head coach Chauncey Billups also busted for his alleged part in an illegal poker scheme.Follow The Post’s live updates on the bombshell NBA, Mafia gambling scandal“What happened was, because bets were placed by legal betting companies, they picked up aberrational behavior around a particular game in March of ’23.So that was brought to our attention by the regulators and the betting companies,” Silver told Amazon reporter Cassidy Hubbarth.
“We then looked into that situation and were very transparent about it, and while there was that aberrational betting, we frankly couldn’t find anything.“We then worked directly with law enforcement, as they said at the press conference.The league has been cooperating, and so that was obviously over two years ago.
The federal government has subpoena power, can threaten to put people in jail, can do all sorts of things that a league office can’t do. “We’ve been working with them since then, and of course, what they announced [Thursday] was an indictment.So two-and-a-half years later, he still hasn’t been convicted of anything, in fairness to Terry.
Of course, it doesn’t look good, but he now has been put on administrative leave, but it’s a balance here of protecting people’s rights and investigating.And as I said, we’ve been working with the government, and they have extraordinary powers that a league office doesn’t have.”The 31-year-old Rozier was arrested by federal agents and charged for alle...