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League following up
Malik Beasley has had a bad NBA offseason. Because of a federal gambling investigation, he is still a free agent just six weeks away from the start of the 2025-2026 season and has lost out on tens of millions of dollars. His lawyer recently said that he is no longer a target of that investigation, but now, according to ESPN, the NBA is conducting its own probe into the gambling allegations.
In August, Beasley’s attorney Steve Haney told ESPN: “An allegation with no charge, indictment or conviction should never have the catastrophic consequence this has caused Malik. This has literally been the opposite of the presumption of innocence.”
league’s investigation is reportedly nearing an end
ESPN said that the league’s investigation is reportedly nearing an end at that Beasley has been cooperative.
Lots of action on random prop
The federal investigation of Beasley came to light in June 2025, focusing on unusual betting activity on Beasley props starting in January 2024, when he was on the Milwaukee Bucks.
The specific game that has been made publicly known was on January 31, 2024, when the Bucks took on the Portland Trailblazers. As tipoff neared, volume skyrocketed on a prop bet that Beasley would grab fewer than 2.5 rebounds, shifting the line from +120 all the way to -250. Beasley, not known to fill the rebounds column on the stat sheet, snared six boards that night, foiling whoever loaded up on the “under” side of the prop bet.
The federal investigation into the betting activity surrounding Beasley was connected to the one that led to multiple guilty pleas in the Jontay Porter betting scandal. Porter has been banned from the NBA for intentionally removing himself from games so that his stats would not hit certain prop bet targets.
Beasley looking for a roster spot
Malik Beasley has hung his hat on being a three-point sharpshooter throughout his nine-year NBA career, but last season was one of his best. On a one-year contract with the Detroit Pistons after his year in Milwaukee, he set a team record with 391 three-pointers, just one shy of the league lead. He finished second in the Sixth Man of the Year voting.
remains a free agent with the season fast approaching
Beasley was reportedly close to inking a three-year, $42m contract to stay with the Pistons, but the federal investigation shut all that down and he remains a free agent with the season fast approaching. With the NBA Draft and the free agency period in the books, there aren’t many roster spots left for him, at least not anywhere he can make that kind of money.
It does seem that Beasley might be close to catching on with a team. On Monday, he posted a short paragraph about the upcoming season on Instagram, concluding with: “my decision is near.”
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