Federal investigators who see Terry Rozier’s Games in the 2023 game

Miami usual betting patterns surrounding the game with the then Charlotte Hornets-Guard Terry Rozier in a game almost two years ago is now under investigation of federal prosecutors, part of the same probe that led to Lifetime Ban of Toronto Raptor Player Jontay Porter, NBA confirmed Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the investigation and noted that Rozier, who played for Hornets at the time and now plays for Miami Heat, has neither been charged with a crime nor has been accused of wrongdoing.

The NBA said it was looking at the case at the time and did not find any liga rules were broken.

“In March 2023, NBA was warned of unusual betting activity related to Terry Rozier’s performance in a game between Charlotte and New Orleans,” NBA spokesman Mike Bass said in a statement, first released to the Wall Street Journal and then to other business. “The league conducted an investigation and did not find a violation of the NBA rules. We are now aware of an investigation by the US Law Office of the Eastern District in New York related to this case and has cooperated with this investigation.”

The US Law Office did not comment immediately. The heat referred to the NBA declaration when he was asked for a comment.

“We are aware of NBA’s 2023 study, which decided that there was absolutely no wrongdoing of Mr. Rozier, and we are convinced that the ongoing government investigation will reach exactly the same conclusion,” said Rozier’s lawyer Jim Trusty .

The game involving Rozier, in question, was played on March 23, 2023, a matchup between Hornets and New Orleans Pelicans. Rozier played the first 9 minutes, 36 seconds of that game – and not only returned that night, referring to a foot problem, but did not play that season again.

Charlotte had eight games left and was not in playoff competition, so it didn’t seem very unusual for Rozier to be shut down for the last matches of the season.

In March 23, Rozier ended with five points, four rebounds and two assists during this opening period – a productive quarter, but well under his usual overall output for a full game.

Posts still online from March 23, 2023 show that some bettors were furious with sports books that night when it became clear that Rozier would not return to the game after the first quarter, with many turning to social media to say that something “shady” had gone with regard to the Prop betting that involved his statistics that night.

A frustrated bettor sent a photo of a ticket to a three-leg parlay where a $ 65 bet would have returned $ 401.95. The bettor played over 6.5 goals in the Tampa Bay-Ottawa NHL game and over 8.5 rebounds for Julius Randle, who both hit. But the ticket was not in cash because Rozier ended well under his plug -in of 32.5 combined points, assists and rebounds. The bettor chose Rozier to exceed these numbers.

Some sports books offered Rozier Prop-Inserts-Hans totals for that night were generally set about 21.5 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds the 23, then took them down hours before the start of the Charlotte-New Orleans game. It wasn’t clear why it happened and some Bettors wondered why the unusual feature had taken place. Rozier was not listed on the team’s injury report that went into the game.

The 30-year-old Rozier is in the third year of a four-year $ 96.3 million contract.

Porter’s ban came after a similar study of his performance and “Prop efforts” – efforts where Bettors can choose whether a player will reach a particular statistical standard or not during a game. Last April, NBA banned Life Porter after a league probe found that he revealed confidential information to sporting bettors and betting at stake, even betting on his team to lose.

Porter -The investigation started when the league learned from “licensed sports betting operators and an organization that monitors legal bet markets” on unusual game patterns around Porter’s performance in a game on March 20, 2024 against Sacramento. The league decided that Porter gave a bettor information about his own health status before this game and said that another individual – known to be a NBA Bettor – placed a $ 80,000 effort that Porter would not hit the numbers that were put before him in parlays through an online sports book. This effort would have won $ 1.1 million.

The specifications of the efforts that triggered the probe to the Hornets-Pelicans game are unknown.

Associated Press contributed to this report.