Miami Heat player Terry Rozier is currently under investigation by federal prosecutors to suspect an illegal Paris program, the NBA confirmed on Thursday.
Investigators work to determine if Rozier manipulated his performance in two games in March 2023, allegedly in conspiracy with Toronto Raptors Jontay Porter.
He is part of the same probe which led to the life ban to wear in July.
The prohibition of Porter intervened after a similar investigation into his performance and his “propeller Paris” – go 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.
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Jontay Porter, Toronto Raptors, warms before the match against the Trail Blazers at Moda Center on March 9, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. (Alika Jenner / Getty Images)
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 fixed for him in Parlays through a online sport book. This bet would have won $ 1.1 million.
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Charlotte Hornets goalkeeper Terry Rozier was running in the Wizards match on November 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP photo / Nick Wass)
Authorities believe that some of the people who organized carry to set their performance in two games last season had internal information that encouraged them to bet large sums of money against Rozier a year earlier.
The Wall Street Journal first pointed out the latest survey, noting that Rozier – who played for the Hornets on the date in question, and who now plays for the Heat de Miami – was not accused of a crime, And he was not 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.
The Phoenix SUNS Devin Booker goalkeeper goes to the basket in front of the Charlotte Hornets Terry Rozier goalkeeper in the first half of a basketball game on the NBA on Sunday January 2, 2022, in Charlotte, NC (AP photo / Chris Carlson)
“In March 2023, the NBA was alerted to 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 Communiqué, published for the first time at the Wall Street Journal and subsequently released to The Associated Press and 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 question and we cooperated with This investigation. “
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 not come back that night, citing a foot problem, but has not played again 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 five points, four rebounds and two assists in this opening period – a productive district, but well below its usual total production for a full match.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the representatives of Miami Heat and Rozier to comment.
