Sources: Heat's Rozier arrested in gambling case

Miami Heat defender Terry Rozier was arrested aboriginal Thursday greeting arsenic portion of an FBI sports betting investigation, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania.

The Eastern District of New York and FBI Director Kash Patel volition clasp a quality league astatine 10 a.m. ET to denote arrests from the investigation.

Rozier was arrested Thursday greeting astatine a edifice successful Orlando, Florida, wherever the Heat mislaid connected the roadworthy Wednesday to the Orlando Magic. Rozier did not play owed to a coach's decision.

Sportsbooks successful aggregate states flagged suspicious betting involvement connected Rozier's statistic up of a Charlotte Hornets-New Orleans Pelicans crippled connected March 23, 2023. An unexpected surge of bets came successful connected the nether connected Rozier's points, rebounds and assists, causing sportsbooks to halt betting connected the seasoned guard. Rozier played conscionable 10 minutes earlier leaving the game, citing a ft injury.

The lawsuit stems from the betting ungraded involving erstwhile Toronto Raptors halfway Jontay Porter, who was banned from the NBA successful the outpouring of 2024 for his relation successful a gambling strategy astir subordinate prop bets. Porter pleaded blameworthy to conspiracy charges and admitted successful tribunal to manipulating his show successful 2 games during the 2023-24 season. He is awaiting sentencing successful December.

Four men, including Porter, person pleaded blameworthy successful the case. Two different men person been named arsenic conspirators and person been successful plea negotiations, according to tribunal filings.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, appearing connected "The Pat McAfee Show" connected Tuesday, said the league has been moving with its sportsbook partners to combat attempts astatine manipulation.

"We've asked immoderate of our partners to propulsion backmost immoderate of the prop bets, particularly erstwhile they're connected two-way players, guys who don't person the aforesaid involvement successful the competition, wherever it's excessively casual to manipulate something, which seems different tiny and inconsequential to the wide score," Silver said. "We're trying to enactment successful spot -- learning arsenic we spell and moving with the betting companies -- immoderate further power to forestall immoderate of that manipulation."