{"id":752512,"date":"2026-06-04T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/752512\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T19:42:20","slug":"nbas-terry-rozier-challenges-ruling-preventing-him-from-receiving-his-salary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/752512\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA\u2019s Terry Rozier Challenges Ruling Preventing Him from Receiving His Salary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Rozier, the embattled NBA player accused of participation in a gambling scheme, is now fighting against a ruling forcing him to forfeit his salary. This comes after the NBA claimed that his violation if its rules made him unable to play, resulting in a breach of his contract.<\/p>\n

Rozier Was Accused of Participation in Illegal Gambling Scheme<\/p>\n

Rozier made headlines after he was accused of alleged participation in a major illegal gambling scheme. He is reported to have, among other things<\/a>, released insider information to bettors.<\/p>\n

In October, the NBA athlete was indicted, but released on a $6 million bond and prohibited to interact with people associated with his former teams, the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

The alleged violations date to his Hornets era, which preceded his stint with the Heat. Rozier ended up missing the 2025-26 season and has since been waived by the Heat.<\/p>\n

In addition to facing an uncertain future, Rozier now has to fight for the right to keep his salary.<\/p>\n

Rozier\u2019s Salary Was Blocked by Earlier Ruling<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, an arbitrator initially sided<\/a> with Rozier, saying that he was due his salary. However, a May ruling ended up overturning the earlier decision, with the arbitrator deciding to side with the NBA after all.<\/p>\n

This effectively allowed the NBA to keep Rozier\u2019s $26.6 million paycheck due to the fact that that he no longer can fulfil his contractual obligation to play.<\/p>\n

However, Rozier\u2019s lawyer, Jim Trusty, argued that the forced inactivity is forcing a potential second season of non-participation on Rozier, despite the fact that the athlete is entitled to a presumption of innocence. Trusty argued that the arbitrator\u2019s latest ruling would consider Rozier unable to perform his contractual services. The lawyer emphasized that this would hurt the athlete\u2019s long-term career since it would minimize his chances of being contracted by another team in the future.<\/p>\n

While Rozier was prohibited from signing with the Hornets, an earlier ruling allowed him to resume contract with the Heat, or secure one with a new team. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terry Rozier, the embattled NBA player accused of participation in a gambling scheme, is now fighting against a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,684,473,3878,685,10880,6,1734,3209],"class_list":["post-752512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-charlotte-hornets","tag-basketball","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-charlottehornets","tag-hornets","tag-legal","tag-nba","tag-north-america","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116693548616036584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}