Miami – The unusual Paris models surrounding the Game of the Garden of the Hornets of the time, Terry Rozier, in a game, almost two years ago, are now the subject of an investigation by federal prosecutors, part From the same probe that led to the ban on the life of the Toronto Raptors Jontay Porter player, the NBA confirmed on Thursday.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out the investigation for the first time, noting that Rozier, who played for the Hornets at the time and now plays for Miami Heat, was not accused of a crime or has been accused of reprehensible acts.
The NBA said that she had examined the issue at the time and had not found that league rules were breaking.
“In March 2023, the NBA was alerted from an unusual Paris activity linked to the performance of Terry Rozier in a game between Charlotte and New Orleans,” said NBA spokesman Mike Bass, in A press release, published for the first time at the Wall Street Journal, then at other points of sale. “The League has conducted an investigation and has not found a violation of the NBA rules. We are now aware of an investigation by the American prosecutor’s office for the Oriental District of New York linked to this issue and we cooperated with This investigation. “
The American lawyer’s office did not immediately comment. The heat referred to the NBA declaration when asked for comments.
“We are aware of the NBA 2023 investigation which determined that there was absolutely no reprehensible act of Mr. Rozier and we are convinced that the current government investigation will come to the same conclusion,” said Declared Rozier’s lawyer, Jim Trusty.
The game involving Rozier who is in question was played on March 23, 2023, a match between the Hornets and the Pélicans of New Orleans. Rozier played the first 9 minutes, 36 seconds of this match – and not only did he not come back that night, citing a foot problem, but he no longer played this season.
Charlotte had eight games to play and was not in the running of the playoffs, so he did not seem particularly unusual that Rozier was closed for the last games of the season.
In this March 23 match, Rozier finished with 5 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists in the opening period – a productive district, but well below its usual total production for a full match.
Messages still online of March 23, 2023 show that some bettors were furious against sports books that evening when he became obvious that Rozier was not going to return to the game after the first quarter, with a lot of social networks to say That something “shady” had continued concerning the propeller bets involving its statistics for that night.
A frustrated bettor published an image of a ticket for a three -leg parlay where a bet of $ 65 would have returned $ 401.95. The Bettor played more than 6.5 goals in the NHL NHL match of Tampa Bay-Ootawa and more than 8.5 rebounds for Julius Randle, who both struck. But the ticket was not in cash because Rozier finished well below his propelled 32.5 -point betting bet, assists and rebounds. The bettor chose Rozier to exceed these figures.
Some sports books have offered Paris Rozier betting – its totals for this night have generally set around 21.5 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds – on March 23, then removed them a few hours before the start of Charlotte-New Orleans match. It was not clear why it had happened, and some bettors wondered aloud why this unusual decision had taken place. Rozier was not scored in the team’s injury report in the match.
Rozier, 30, is in the third year of a contract of $ 96.3 million over four years.
The prohibition of Porter intervened after a similar investigation into his performance and his “propeller Paris” – from bets where bettors can choose whether a player will reach a certain statistical standard or not during a match. Last April, the NBA forbade life after a league investigation revealed that it revealed confidential information to sports betting and bet on matches, even by betting on its team to lose.
The Porte survey began once the League has learned “license sports betting operators and an organization that monitors the markets in legal Paris” on unusual game models surrounding the performance of carrying in a match on 20 March 2024, against Sacramento. The League determined that Porter had given information on the bettors on his own state of health before this match and said that another individual – known to be a bettor of the NBA – placed a bet of $ 80,000 that would not strike the figures set for him in Parlays a sports book online. This bet would have won $ 1.1 million.
The specifics of the bets that sparked the probe in the Hornets-Pelican games are unknown.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
