From the official records of the NBA betting investigation: the then Hornets guard plans everything. And then he counts the money he has collected with his friends.

Those in the know or who bet regularly admit it without any problem. “Too easy, with individual plays.” Yes, too easy. Especially if you know someone who is part of that world. In NBA basketball, you can bet on every statistic. Team or individual. Points, assists, fouls, 3-point shots, steals, turnovers. Everything that fills the statistics sheet. Emblematic are the official documents of the investigation, made public by the New York Times, involving Rozier and other defendants in the investigation that led to over 30 arrests in America on Thursday alone.
Terry Rozier, at the time one of the key players for the Charlotte Hornets, talks on the phone with another defendant about a game against the New Orleans Pelicans on March 23, 2023. “Look, I’ll play a maximum of 10 minutes against the Pelicans, then I’ll say I have a sore foot, I’ll leave and I won’t come back. Bet under on me.” For those who are not bettors: if a bet is over 15.5 points, betting under means you think Rozier will score less than 16 points. What drives a player who has earned $160 million in his career to do such a thing is certainly not revealed in the investigation reports. The fact is that the tip quickly spread. The friend, the first to receive the tip from the player, shared it with a third person in exchange for $100,000. The third person in turn resold it in exchange for a percentage of the winnings. Rozier also made another serious mistake by sharing the information with relatives and close friends. It doesn’t take a genius to guess that this flow of bets, worth several hundred thousand dollars on the under, aroused the suspicion of the authorities, triggering the explosion that has rocked the US today.

COUNTING BIG BUCKS—  Of course, Rozier played that game and was out after one quarter. We find him again on the night of April 1, 2023, counting his winnings with the first person Terry sold the information to. Easy money. Too easy. But thanks to the investigative work of the NBA and the FBI, it will likely cost Rozier what was left of his NBA career.