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Pablo Torre: One source I spoke to who was close to several of Malik Beasley's current and former NBA teammates immediately told me when I asked if he had heard anything about the gambling issues, quote, "He's a dumbass. I believe everything." End quote. So that's not enough. We had to keep digging.
And what I'm told is contrary to Shams Charania’s reporting, is that Terry Rozier has not been cleared of any wrongdoing, only that his name came up in the existing federal investigation. And this relates directly to why Moose is this character that we're focusing on, because Freemoose_NBA speaks to the federal investigation, which clearly is also still ongoing. Right. On that day, the same day that Terry Rosier News drops, this guy, Freemoose_NBA, tweeted something that was even more provocative because on that day, he posted, quote, "First was Jontay, then was Rosier, next you'll hear about capital M, four asterisks, capital B, and then six asterisks." The symmetry of the rule of three. Jontay, Rozier, M****** B*****. This guy, Freemoose_NBA, posted another tweet right after that one and said there's another current player who's going to have a report come out about them next. Won't say the name, but they play on the Pistons right now. This is the first documented mention by anyone anywhere that Malik Beasley was going to come up as part of this investigation.
At which point it became clear that Moose_NBA, Twitter's Malik Beasley Profit was more than just Facebook friends with alleged Jontay Porter co-conspirator Ammar Awawdeh. Moose was his relative, his cousin. This is where it takes us back now to the legal documents as we try to connect all the dots here. Right. So, generally observing the following in the Jontay Porter legal documents, quote, "A relative of the defendant, Ammar Awawdeh, whose identity is known to me, placed a $10,000 parlay bet through betting company one on the under for player 1's three-pointers, assists, and steals." It goes on to talk about how the relative won $85,000, netting a profit of $75,000. And so just saying that Ammar Awawdeh in terms of the information he was sharing, who he was bringing in to the thing he was already caught up in. We don't know which family member it is. They're anonymous according to federal prosecutors, but family is literally mentioned in the federal investigation a number of times.
I had to follow up with Mustafa to make sure he had his story straight on this. So I asked him again. You did not get information on Malik Beasley from Ammar Awawdeh who was part of the Jontay Porter case? No. Like I said, I got it off of Reddit. Do you have that Reddit forum that you got it from that you could show me? I could probably find it. Yeah. Would you be fine with me searching it and then getting it to you on Twitter? Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great. All right, we'll do that one. Despite the evidence from his own posts and his own brags to having a connection to someone in this he claims zero knowledge and that he got it from he got it from Reddit. Yeah, he said he got it from Reddit. Uh, and it was public. And after I hung up with Mustafa Omar, who promised me to hit me back on Twitter and send that Reddit post that would clear him of all of this and just say, "Hey, they had it. It wasn't me." What happened next was I logged back into my Twitter account and I DM'd him back a reminder being like, "Hey, uh, yeah, if you can just grab that Reddit post and send it back to me." Bloop. I got an error message and that error message said message not sent. Sending direct message failed. I thought my internet was down or that he turned off his DMs, but nope. Nope, guys. He had shut down his account at 1237474849 lowercase a.
Malik Beasley was going through financial issues at time of federal gambling probe
Malik Beasley, an NBA player under investigation in a federal gambling probe, had "financial issues" and struggled to pay back a $650,000 advance this year, according to a lawsuit filed by his former marketing agency. The suit, filed in April by New York-based Hazan Sports Management Group, seeks $2.25 million in damages and legal fees from Beasley for breach of contract.
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An attorney for Hazan Sports wrote that the firm "elected to take a chance and make a substantial investment of time, effort, and resources in a player with known issues (including and especially financial issues)" when it took Beasley on as a client in November 2023. Beasley terminated the deal two years later on Feb. 27, according to the suit. Hazan Sports tried to recoup a $650,000 marketing advance "but received little more than drips and drabs of sporadic payments and vague promises to repay the balance over time," the suit alleges.
Vincent Goodwill: But since the 2011 CBA, so many teams have changed since I want to say 16, especially with the Lakers now. 16. So you have to find all these new revenue streams and then gambling comes along and says, "Hey, we've been here this whole time. we are just waiting for you to come and embrace us. And they're like, "Okay, cool. Fine." You put the fail safes in the system. Here's what happens. The league doesn't catch this stuff. FanDuel catches this stuff because they can't afford to lose money. They can't afford to have their system compromised by insider trading by and large. So, if that were to happen, and neither one of us is indicting Malik Beasley here. Let's be perfectly clear. It's still it's under investigation.
Shams Charania: Statement from NBA spokesman Mike Bass: “We are cooperating with the federal prosecutors’ investigation.”
Malik Beasley under investigation for allegations of gambling on NBA games and prop bets
Shams Charania: BREAKING: The U.S. District Attorney’s office is investigating Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley on allegations of gambling related to NBA games and prop bets, sources told ESPN. Serious development surrounding one of the top NBA free agents.
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