Former NBA player and coach Damon Jones —along with Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups — was among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday.

Here are five things to know about Jones:

Recent arrest

Jones was arrested on Thursday after he allegedly provided inside information about NBA games to co-defendants who used it to place sports bets.

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According to U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York Joseph Nocella Jr., six defendants are accused of their involvement in the sports betting case, while there are 31 defendants allegedly involved in the rigged poker games. Jones is one of three people allegedly involved in both cases.

Jones was an unofficial assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2022-23 when he allegedly was involved with the betting scheme, according to the indictment.

Former Dallas Mavericks player

Jones, 49, briefly played for Mavericks, appearing in 42 games with the franchise during the 1999-2000 season. He averaged 3.9 points and 1.4 assists coming off the bench.

He played a total of 11 NBA seasons for 10 different teams.

NBA champion

Jones won an NBA championship as an assistant coach with the Cleveland Cavaliers during the 2015-16 season.

He joined Cleveland’s coaching staff in 2014 as a shooting consultant. He was on Tyronn Lue’s Cleveland staff for the postseason in 2016 and was named a full-time assistant for the Cavaliers later that year. He also worked as a TV analyst for ESPN in 2018.

Native Texan

Jones was born in Galveston in 1979. He later played basketball at the University of Houston before going undrafted in 1997.

A soup incident

During the 2018 season, Cleveland guard J.R. Smith was suspended one game for throwing soup on Jones.

Smith said during an appearance on the “The Old Man and the Three” podcast he is now on good terms with Jones, but the former Cavaliers assistant didn’t know when to stop “playing” with those around him. Smith explained that he was having a tough time on the court and in his personal life at the time.

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