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Terry Rozier was in violation of his NBA contract and will forfeit most of his $26.6 million salary for the 2025-26 season due to his alleged role in a sports gambling scheme while he was with the Charlotte Hornets, an arbitrator ruled last month. The ruling was included in a court filing released Wednesday.
The same arbitrator initially said the NBA could not withhold Rozier’s salary this season as he faces federal charges from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The NBA put him on unpaid administrative leave in October, days after Rozier, then with the Miami Heat, was arrested. He and the National Basketball Players Association filed a grievance, and an arbitrator ruled at the time that Rozier should be paid despite being on leave.
Rozier and the NBA returned to the arbitrator this spring after the league said he should not be paid, as the conditions of his bond — which don’t allow him to travel across the country or be in contact with the Heat and Hornets — prevented him from fulfilling his contract. The union and Rozier again appealed, but this time the arbitrator ruled in the league’s favor. Rozier and the NBA returned to the arbitrator this spring after the league said he should not be paid, as the conditions of his bond — which don’t allow him to travel across the country or be in contact with the Heat and Hornets — prevented him from fulfilling his contract. The union and Rozier again appealed, but this time the arbitrator ruled in the league’s favor.
On Wednesday, a lawyer for Rozier asked the judge overseeing his case to change the conditions of his release because Rozier still hopes to play in the NBA and believes those terms are impacting his ability to do so. The Eastern District attorney’s office removed the Heat from his no-contact list late last month, the filing released Wednesday said, after Miami released him in April, but the Hornets remain. The NBA had asked federal prosecutors to prevent Rozier from communicating with anyone in the league, but that request was denied. Rozier’s attorneys are now asking the judge to remove the Hornets and their current and former employees as well, and to lower Rozier’s limit to not discussing the case with them. Prosecutors have opposed this request.
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The Knicks finally know who their opponent will be following Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs’ monumental Game 7 closeout win over the Thunder on Saturday night. For one bettor on DraftKings Sportsbook, however, a $49,000 straight bet on the Knicks to win the NBA Finals for a massive $980,000 payout still hangs in the balance. The finals winner bet was made a day after the Knicks beat the Hawks in Round 1 on May 1, as they were priced with 19-to-1 odds to win the championship.
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Upsets are now the norm in April and May. If you’d bet $100 on the underdog for every series in the 1990s, you’d have lost $3,415, per Covers.com. In the 2000s, you’d have been down $5,530, and in the 2010s you’d have been $4,290 in the hole. In the 2020s so far, a bettor backing the underdog every time would be up $1,650. Put more simply, underdogs won 23% of series in the 1990s and only 21% of series in the 2000s and 2010s, but are taking 33% of series in the 2020s.
The second-round odds look more like a No. 16 vs. No. 1 seed in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Lakers open the series as +945 underdogs. Some books even pushed it to +1000. The Thunder are -1700 favorites. That means you’d have to lay $1,700 on OKC to win the series just to win $100. Those opening lines are unprecedented for the Lakers’ franchise. According to Sports Odds History, the Lakers have never been this big of an underdog in a conference semifinal in the NBA’s modern era. And maybe not in any era!
The NBA asked the nation's top commodities regulator Thursday to impose tighter restrictions on players, game officials and team staff to ensure prediction markets don't undermine sports integrity and fan confidence. Dan Spillane, the NBA's executive vice president and assistant general counsel, wrote in a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that the integrity concerns posed by prediction markets are similar to those associated with sports betting.
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Federal prosecutors intend to bring new charges against Terry Rozier related to their sports gambling case against the NBA player and others. A lawyer in the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Eastern District of New York said Monday that it intends to file a superseding indictment against Rozier alleging that he “solicited and accepted a bribe.”
Cyro Asseo: Pat Riley on players gambling: "The most stupid thing that a player could do. Absolutely just stupid. I hate to use that word but it's the worst thing that any NBA player...when you get in bed with them as a league... with gambling sites.. to me that's a contradiction"
Pat Riley on players gambling:
— Cyro Asseo (@CyroAsseo) April 27, 2026
"The most stupid thing that a player could do. Absolutely just stupid. I hate to use that word but it's the worst thing that any NBA player...when you get in bed with them as a league... with gambling sites.. to me that's a contradiction" pic.twitter.com/z8mpHDTffK
While guard Terry Rozier remains on the Miami Heat’s roster, his release is expected in the coming weeks. Rozier likely won’t be on the Heat’s postseason roster, according to a league source.