Former Detroit Pistons guard and current Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups was arrested Thursday morning in connection with a federal probe focused on gambling, according to numerous reports. ABC News reports Billups, 49, is charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia.

Former Detroit Pistons star Chauncey Billups is facing charges in connection with a scheme to rig poker games that were backed by Mafia families, officials said.

In the 2003 NBA Draft, sandwiched between LeBron James with the first overall pick and Carmelo Anthony with the third, the Detroit Pistons famously selected the raw and unproven Darko Milicic at #2. And as opposed to the Hall of Fame careers of James and ...