{"id":56093,"date":"2025-10-24T22:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/nba-commissioner-says-hes-deeply-disturbed-by-gambling-case-involving-billups-and-rozier\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T03:54:54","slug":"nba-commissioner-says-hes-deeply-disturbed-by-gambling-case-involving-billups-and-rozier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/nba-commissioner-says-hes-deeply-disturbed-by-gambling-case-involving-billups-and-rozier\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA commissioner says he\u2019s \u2018deeply disturbed\u2019 by gambling case involving Billups and Rozier"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Silver says league integrity \u2018most important\u2019 priority<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Coaches and players voice shock at indictments<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NBA commissioner Adam Silver, in his first public comments since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/23\/heats-rozier-and-blazers-coach-billups-reportedly-arrested-over-separate-gambling-claims\">arrests of Portland coach Chauncey Billups and Miami guard Terry Rozier<\/a> on gambling-related charges, said Friday night that he was stunned by the indictments that have rocked the league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy initial reaction was I was deeply disturbed,\u201d Silver said on Amazon Prime Video, during the streaming service\u2019s first broadcast \u2013 Boston at New York. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more important to the league and its fans than the integrity of the competition. I had a pit in my stomach. It was very upsetting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/oct\/24\/nba-adam-silver-chauncey-billups-terry-rozier-gambling-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver says league integrity \u2018most important\u2019 priority Coaches and players voice shock at indictments NBA commissioner Adam Silver, in his first public comments since the arrests of Portland coach Chauncey Billups and Miami guard Terry Rozier on gambling-related charges, said Friday night that he was stunned by the indictments that have rocked the league. \u201cMy &#8230; <a title=\"NBA commissioner says he\u2019s \u2018deeply disturbed\u2019 by gambling case involving Billups and Rozier\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/nba-commissioner-says-hes-deeply-disturbed-by-gambling-case-involving-billups-and-rozier\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NBA commissioner says he\u2019s \u2018deeply disturbed\u2019 by gambling case involving Billups and Rozier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}