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Ex-Milwaukee Bucks guard arrested in gambling bust

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4 months ago

October 23, 2025

Ex-Milwaukee Bucks guard arrested in gambling bust

A former player for the Milwaukee Bucks is one of those arrested in a federal gambling investigation.

FBI agents arrested more than 30 people in the scandal involving illegal betting and poker scams. Those charged include current Miami Heat player Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups.

Federal officials also arrested Damon Jones. Jones was a journeyman guard who played for 11 NBA teams. He had two stints on the Bucks, first in 2003 and at the end of his NBA career in 2008 and 2009. He also served as an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Jones is accused of selling non-public information about players that bettors used to place illegal wagers.

At a press conference Thursday, FBI Director Kash Patel said the operation spanned years and involved “mind-boggling” fraud.

Jones and Billups are also defendants in a separate indictment involving a rigged poker game. That scheme began as early as 2019 and involved locations across the U.S., including the Hamptons, Manhattan, Las Vegas and Miami, according to the FBI.

An FBI memo describes sophisticated technology such as card shuffling machines that had been secretly altered to incorporate concealed technology that could read the cards in the deck, predict which players at the table had the best poker hand, and relay that information to offsite operators in other states.

Editor’s note: The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Wauwatosa sweep vaults Brookfield East in area boys basketball rankings

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2 hours ago

February 16, 2026

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Wauwatosa sweep vaults Brookfield East in area boys basketball rankings

Several top Milwaukee-area high school boys basketball teams are competing for conference titles and top seeds.
Brookfield East is named team of the week after two key conference wins put it in contention for the Greater Metro Conference title.
West Allis Central dropped in the rankings after its star player, Yusef Gray Jr., was reported to be out for the season.
Wisconsin Lutheran remains undefeated and holds the top spot in the area rankings.

It is a big week for several top high school boys hoops teams in the Milwaukee area, as programs make their final cases for top seeds and clinch conference titles.

Slinger and Whitefish Bay, locked in a dead heat for the North Shore title, are ranked just as close in our area rankings this week. Brookfield East earns our team of the week nod after a sweep of conference opponents gave it the inside track for a Greater Metro Conference title. West Allis Central kept winning last week, but the news that Iowa State commit and 6-foot-5 senior guard Yusef Gray Jr. is reportedly out for the season dropped the Bulldogs another couple spots.

Wauwatosa West dropping a barn-burner to Brookfield East drops it out of the top 10 this week, while Milwaukee Audubon Tech (13-7) has lost three straight games to drop out of others considered.

Here are our full area rankings, team of the week and games to watch in the week ahead.

AREA RANKINGS

Team (W-L), last week

Wisconsin Lutheran (21-0), 1
Port Washington (20-1), 2
Milwaukee Juneau (19-1), 5
New Berlin West (19-2), 3
Brookfield East (17-4), 9
Slinger (17-4), 4
Whitefish Bay (16-5), –
West Allis Central (19-2), 6
Golda Meir (16-2), 8
Howard Fuller Collegiate (18-2), 10

Others considered: Arrowhead (15-6), Germantown (12-8), Greendale (16-5), Hartford Union (15-6), Kettle Moraine (14-7), Lake Country Lutheran (16-3), Milwaukee Bay View (17-3), Milwaukee Vincent (12-2), Racine Case (17-4), Wauwatosa West (15-5).

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Brookfield East

Seemingly back to full health upon the return of breakout 6-foot freshman guard Max McMullen, the Spartans surged to the top of a cutthroat Greater Metro Conference race with two league wins by narrow margins last week.

Brookfield East completed a sweep of Wauwatosa last week, first beating Tosa East in double overtime on Feb. 10. Senior 6-3 guard TJ Platz scored 31 points with 11 rebounds to lead the win, with 6-foot senior guard Owen Counsell adding 14 points and nine rebounds off the bench. In a star-studded Feb. 13 meeting with Tosa West, the Spartans overcame 44 points from Matthew Kloskey and 29 from Jalen Brown of the Trojans to win a 100-95 track meet. Senior 5-9 guard Ronje Horton Jr. had a team-best 27 points, while McMullen added 25 in his return to action from a right arm injury. Platz had 20 points and a team-high eight rebounds, while 6-1 sophomore guard Davian White had 11 points off the bench.

The victories put Brookfield East at 11-3 in the GMC entering the week, putting it ahead of Germantown (10-4), Wauwatosa West (9-4) and Brookfield Central (9-4) among remaining conference title contenders. A win Feb. 17 over Central could clinch at least a share of the title for East, whose final league game is against West Allis Hale (1-13) on Feb. 20.

COMING UP

Milwaukee Lutheran at West Allis Central, 7 p.m. Feb. 19: Milwaukee Lutheran hung with WAC like few teams had before Gray Jr.’s injury earlier this year, and will look to avenge that 99-85 loss from Jan. 27.

Germantown at Whitnall, 7 p.m. Feb. 20: A pair of scrappy teams just outside the lead in their respective conferences lock up as they prepare for the WIAA postseason.

Arrowhead at Marquette, 4 p.m. Feb. 21: While both programs are not quite where they were two years ago, a rematch of the 2024 WIAA Division 1 state title could be the springboard for either program to make another deep postseason run.

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Doug Gottlieb goes on postgame tirade after Milwaukee beats Green Bay late

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14 hours ago

February 16, 2026

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Doug Gottlieb goes on postgame tirade after Milwaukee beats Green Bay late

Because the whistles had been so plentiful, Stevie Elam’s defense in the waning moments had to be perfect.

It was ‒ depending on who you ask.

As a foul-ridden contest between rivals came to a close at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena on Feb. 15, UW-Green Bay guard Preston Ruedinger wisely attacked the rim with his team trailing by a point and the clock under 10 seconds. Expecting at the very least to draw some contact and a whistle, all he instead encountered was Elam stripping the ball away.

The freshman stripped Ruedinger, then sank two free throws to ice a 75-72 win for the Panthers to avoid what would have been the first sweep to their in-state foes since 2018-19.

“He had to get that ball pretty clean,” Milwaukee head coach Bart Lundy said. “They were driving with force. We had a couple plays before that where it looked like we stopped them and we did get whistled. But Stevie Elam’s strength as a true freshman, his hand strength is off the charts; it’s probably NFL-level.”

Lundy’s counterpart disagreed, to say the least.

“The last play of the game, just to get the ball they were grabbing us and holding us,” Phoenix head coach Doug Gottlieb said. “Again, I understand if you’re not calling that, that’s fine. You had the exact same play at both ends in the last play of the game.”

Gottlieb paused, ever so briefly, then aggressively slammed his fists into the table atop the dais.

“The exact same [expletive] play,” Gottlieb yelled. “The exact same play.”

Gottlieb was fed up with the officiating crew from the afternoon after receiving a technical foul and seeing his team shoot 18 free throws compared to Milwaukee’s 37. He specifically called out the technical he received in the second half with just under 7 minutes to play and his team up three, as well as a loose-ball foul on CJ O’Hara with 4:25 to go and his team up four.

“I need the new commissioner of the Horizon League to explain to me what a technical foul is when I don’t leave the box, I don’t curse, I’m not demonstrative,” Gottlieb said. “There was nothing, nothing that should have been called a technical foul. I know when I earn one. I did not earn one. The CJ play, we’re up [four] points, that dramatically changed the [trajectory] of the game.”

Postgame tirades aside, the Panthers had to overcome a huge night from Green Bay’s Marcus Hall to do so, as the junior from Schofield, Wisconsin, had 32 points and seven rebounds.

Central to Milwaukee’s efforts in doing so: free throws and Chandler Jackson, who scored 23 points.

Twenty-four of the Panthers’ free throws came in the second half, and they hit 22 of them – despite being one of the worst free-throw shooting teams in the country at 68.5% entering the day.

Milwaukee led for only 1 minute, 53 seconds in total.

After cutting the lead to one three times prior in the final minutes, the Panthers took the lead with 69 seconds left when Esyah Pippa-White was fouled going for a defensive rebound and hit a pair of free throws.

On the other end, Hall corralled his own miss and laid it back up with 45 seconds left to put the Phoenix up 72-71.

But Amar Augillard wisely drove to the basket on the other end, where he drew a foul much to Gottlieb’s chagrin and hit Milwaukee’s 19th and 20th free throws of the half.

“Our end, [if] you don’t want to call a foul, he drove into traffic, whatever,” the Phoenix second-year coach and former radio host said. “It’s the exact same play as the other end. Could not be more similar. And yet every time they drove in there it was a foul, and every time we did it was a miss.”

Milwaukee shot 19 more free throws than Green Bay despite drawing only five more fouls.

Jackson went 8 for 8 from the stripe as he finished two points shy of his career-high of 25 points, which he set in Milwaukee’s most recent game, Feb. 10 at IU Indy.

Initially thought of as a likely redshirt candidate, Jackson has become arguably the heavily injured Panthers’ most-consistent scorer of late. He’s averaging 14.1 points over his past eight games.

“To see Chandler from June to where he is now, he’s just a different guy, different player,” Lundy said. “When we inserted Chandler, we really inserted him for his communication. He helps everyone get better defensively. That’s what got him the opportunity and everything has grown from that. It wasn’t like he was in practice scoring at will on everyone. He talked. He communicated. He cared.”

Elam was the only other Milwaukee player to reach double-digit scoring, finishing with 11 points.

With the win, the Panthers moved a half-game clear of Youngstown State and Cleveland State for eighth place in the Horizon League, which matters because the 10th and 11th place teams face off in a play-in for the conference tournament.

Green Bay left the building, meanwhile, in a tie for third – and forcefully demanding answers from the conference.

“All we ask is that there’s a fair game. That’s what we ask,” Gottlieb said. “CJ O’Hara goes and gets an offensive rebound, their player dives at his legs and CJ gets called for a foul. I need [Jill Bodensteiner] at the league, our new commissioner, to explain to me the disparity in the officiating. That’s what I need explained to me.

“I have no problem with their team, their staff. They played hard. They did what they do. They played tough and they played aggressive. I need somebody to explain to me, just those two. There are others I have massive issues with, including every time we touched them there was a foul in the second half.”

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Milwaukee shootings Sunday, 2 people injured

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1 day ago

February 15, 2026

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Milwaukee shootings Sunday, 2 people injured

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MILWAUKEE – Two people were injured in two separate shootings in Milwaukee early Sunday morning, Feb. 15.

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What we know:

According to the Milwaukee Police Department, at about 1:40 a.m., a 34-year-old was shot and went to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Police do not know the exact location of the shooting right now.

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What we know:

At about 3:10 a.m., a 32-year-old was shot and taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

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What you can do:

Milwaukee police are looking for whoever is responsible for these shootings.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Milwaukee police at 414-935-7360 or to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 414-224-Tips or use the P3 Tips app.

The Source: The Milwaukee Police Department sent FOX6 the information.

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