Ex-NBA Player Damon Jones Admits Role in Sports-Betting Scheme

Former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones admitted passing tips on NBA injuries as well as acting as a “face card” to attract high rollers to rigged poker games during his guilty plea on Tuesday.

“I knowingly and intentionally entered into an agreement with others to defraud sports betting platforms based on insider information I obtained as a result of my relationships as a former player,” Jones told US Magistrate Judge Joseph Marutollo in Brooklyn in his plea hearing.