Tyronn Lue speaks out on Chauncey Billups’ illegal betting and poker rigging allegations, offering support amid FBI investigation.

The U.S. government alleges that a dozen men with ties to infamous Mafia clans oversaw a brazen poker cheating scheme spanning six years.

They used the star to do it. They had us excited. The only reason they were able to pull this off was because they had a professional athlete in place.”

Clippers coach Tyronn Lue reportedly tied to the same Mafia-backed rigged poker scandal as Chauncey Billups in Las Vegas.

The New York Post reports that the purported victim of a Texas jeweler who was linked to the NBA gambling situation was scammed out of nearly $1 million, along with some of his poker friends, by an ex-NFL player. According to the report, the former NFL player was used as the “front man” of the scheme.