The arrests came like a thunderbolt on a gray fall day. One after another, each was more incendiary than the next.
First, there was Terry Rozier, a veteran guard who had spent the night prior on the bench for the Miami Heat. Federal prosecutors in New York alleged that he had told a friend he would come out early from an NBA game and that friend sold the information to a group of sports gamblers. Rozier had made more than $150 million in his career. He was just one game into a season that would pay him more than $26 million no matter whether he played a minute on the floor.
