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Miami Heat point guard Terry Rozier is under federal investigation in relation to a sports betting scandal, the NBA announced in a statement confirmed to NBC News on Thursday (January 30).
The league was reportedly alerted of suspicious betting surrounding Rozier in March 2023 when he played for the Charlotte Hornets in a game against the New Orleans Pelicans, NBA spokesman Mike Bass confirmed.
"The league conducted an investigation and did not find a violation of NBA rules," Bass said. "We are now aware of an investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York related to this matter and have been cooperating with that investigation.”
Rozier's betting scandal comes months after the NBA issued a lifetime ban for forward Jontay Porter following an investigation in which he was found to have "violated league rules by disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more games for betting purposes, and betting on NBA games" last April. Porter, 24, who was under contract with the Toronto Raptors as a two-way player prior to the ban, was found to have "disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor" prior to the Raptors' game on March 20, 2024, as well as having knowledge that another individual he knew to be a bettor "placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet," wagering that he would underperform in the game, which won $1.1 million.