"A United States Senate committee sent a letter to NBA commissioner Adam Silver on Monday, saying that last week's federal indictments of Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player and coach Damon Jones were a matter of "Congressional concern" and asking for details about the league's approach to investigating potential gambling violations."
"The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which is chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and oversees professional sports, asked the NBA in its letter to provide documentation of its gambling policies and a list of investigations regarding betting. "The integrity of NBA games must be trustworthy and free from the influence of organized crime or gambling-related activity. Sports betting scandals like this one may lead the American public to assume that all sports are corrupt," the committee members wrote."
Senate committee leaders asked NBA commissioner Adam Silver for documents and details after federal indictments accused current and former NBA figures of gambling-related conduct. The Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz, requested the league's gambling policies, a list of investigations since 2020, communications with sportsbooks and integrity monitors about suspicious wagers, and the findings and report from the NBA's internal investigation of Terry Rozier. Committee members stated that NBA game integrity must be free from organized crime or gambling influence and warned that betting scandals could cause the public to assume sports are corrupt. The indictments involved 34 individuals across two overlapping federal probes.
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