Chauncey Billups (born September 25, 1976) is an American basketball player and coach who in October 2025 faced a federal indictment that accused him of being involved in a series of illegal poker games that were facilitated by Mafia crime families. Billups was alleged to have been paid to use his fame as a sports figure to lure in victims to rigged poker games. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Billups played in the NBA from 1997 to 2014 on seven teams, most notably the Denver Nuggets and the Detroit Pistons. As a member of the latter team, he won the 2004 NBA championship and was named 2004 NBA Finals MVP. He later became the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers (2021β ), and in 2024 he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Billups was placed on indefinite unpaid leave from the Trail Blazers in the wake of the federal charges.