Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups and Others Arrested In Sports Betting Probe



On December 29, the night he scored 15 points in a win over Cleveland, he told former pro Ed Davis he didn’t even have the cash to pay him a small debt. Davis, a journeyman forward who bounced from the league the year before, had several loans out to Beasley. But he had an idea of how to recoup.

The resulting alleged Beasley gambling plot is the third inside-job scandal in the NBA since mobile sports gambling was made widely available in America. The other two scandals, involving Jontay Porter and Terry Rozier, are connected by the same alleged bettors named in the indictments. The Beasley case appears, at least from the outside, to be unrelated.

But in all three, there have been figures like Rob Gorodetsky — hard-on-their-luck career gamblers who, through connections in Vegas, have found themselves in scandals involving NBA players allegedly willing to risk their reputations for a fraction of their salary as they racked up debts off the court. For Gorodetsky, it’s the latest flash of notoriety in a crash-and-burn career as a brash gambler and attention-getter who went from making national headlines for sports-betting boasts to serving time in prison on fraud charges, only to resurface now in the latest high-profile case to ensnare the league.
 
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