ESPN star Brian Windhorst claimed the NBA knew of the betting irregularities regarding Rozier’s March 23, 2023 game while with the Hornets and « pulled him. »
The NBA — not a foot injury — allegedly ended Terry Rozier’s controversial 2022-23 season.
ESPN star Brian Windhorst claimed the NBA knew of the betting irregularities regarding Rozier’s March 23, 2023 game while with the Hornets and “pulled him.”
Rozier did not play in the Hornets’ final eight games that season after exiting the contest in question, in which the Unders on his prop bets cashed due to his exit caused by a supposed right foot injury.
The FBI arrested Rozier on Thursday as part of a sports betting probe.
“The NBA, at some point, is going to have to explain why Terry Rozier was allowed to keep playing. And I want to point something out. The sportsbooks caught the irregular betting on Terry Rozier the day it happened, the morning it happened, when all of a sudden there was hundreds of thousands of dollars coming in on Terry Rozier Unders for a relatively meaningless game in March involving the Charlotte Hornets. The sportsbooks caught it,” Windhorst said on the “Rich Eisen show” on Thursday.
“They told the NBA right away, and guess what? The NBA — Rozier didn’t play the rest of the season and he had faked the injury, so it wasn’t because of the injury. The NBA pulled them, they pulled (banned ex-Raptor) Jontay Porter too, they flagged Jontay Porter and pulled Jontay Porter. The NBA’s measure, their protection measures, the sportsbook protecting measures triggered this, they caught it.
