Woke to a family group chat.
Had to close my jaw and rub my eyes after what I read next.
Chauncey Billups, the greatest basketball player our state has ever known, was charged Thursday morning with participating in a series of rigged poker games organized by Mafia families that cheated victims out of at least $7.15 million.
Read that last sentence again. Billups arrested, gambling, cheating — almost a year to the day he was enshrined into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
There are few surprises anymore. This news left me stunned.