Terry Rozier was in violation of his NBA contract and will forfeit most of his $26.6 million salary for the 2025-26 season due to his alleged role in a sports gambling scheme while he was with the Charlotte Hornets, an arbitrator ruled last month. The ruling was included in a court filing released Wednesday.The same arbitrator initially said the NBA could not withhold Rozier’s salary this season as he faces federal charges from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The NBA put him on unpaid administrative leave in October, days after Rozier, then with the Miami Heat, was arrested. He and the National Basketball Players Association filed a grievance, and an arbitrator ruled at the time that Rozier should be paid despite being on leave.Rozier and the NBA returned to the arbitrator this spring after the league said he should not be paid, as the conditions of his bond — which don’t allow him to travel across the country or be in contact with the Heat and Hornets — prevented him from fulfilling his contract. The union and Rozier again appealed, but this time the arbitrator ruled in the league’s favor.Federal prosecutors indicted Rozier in October on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors said Rozier told a friend he would remove himself early from a Hornets game in March 2023, then that friend sold that information to a group of gamblers. Prosecutors indicted Rozier again last month on two more felony charges, including sports bribery. They said Rozier agreed to take a $100,000 payment to exit the game early so gamblers could wager on and win prop bets.