Hornets cancels the night of the theme of sports betting with Terry Rozier heat guard under federal investigation for gambling
The Charlotte Hornets canceled a themed evening of sports betting with the former Terry Rozier guard linked to a federal investigation into gambling. The team was scheduled to host the promotion on March 17, the day Rozier and Miami Heat were in the city. But the team canceled the promotion on Wednesday, according to the southern Florida Sentinel Suninel.
Rozier-Che played for the Hornets from 2019 to 2024-is under investigation by the federal authorities for his actions during a game in the NBA season 2022-23, when he was still a member of the Hornets. Before a game against New Orleans Pellicans in that season, a bettor spoke of almost $ 14,000 subsoil involving Rozier’s statistics. Rozier left the game after only nine minutes due to a foot injury, causing winning all the bets below, for documents acquired by Espn.
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Rozier has not been connected to the placement of bets and has not been accused or accused of any illicit, but remains under investigation. The investigation is trying to determine whether Rozier “manipulated his performance as part of a program of illegal sports betting,” wrote the Wall Street Journal in January.
According to reports, the investigation on Rozier is connected to the game probe that brought the former Toronto striker Raptors Jontay Porter who is banned by the NBA for life. Porter has been studied for his actions in two NBA games, in which the bettors placed large quantities on his lost. Porter left one of those competitions due to an injury. He left the other with a disease.
In its investigation, the NBA determined Porter leaked “information reserved for sports bettors” and therefore limited its participation in one or more games for betting reasons.
When asked why the Hornets removed the promotion on Wednesday, the team did not mention the probe on gambling, simply by telling the Sun Sentinel that the promotion “was no longer happening on that day”. It is not clear if the Hornets plan to reprogram the event.
Hornets have a series of other promotional dates in their program during the NBA season of 2025-26, including the night of raising on breast cancer, the night of pride and the HBCU.