Beasley, Davis, and an NBA agent are among six defendants indicted on charges related to an alleged sports betting plot.<\/p>\n
Published On 29 Jun 202629 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
Former NBA players Malik Beasley \u200c\u200cand Ed Davis were indicted on Monday on federal charges related \u2060\u2060to an \u2060\u2060alleged sports betting operation.<\/p>\n
They are among six defendants named in an indictment released by the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Eastern \u2060\u2060District of New York.<\/p>\n
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Davis was arrested on Monday along with William Brown, Rob Gorodetsky and Ernesto Plascencia, while Beasley and Paolo Zamorano were \u2060\u2060not yet in custody as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Zamorano is an NBA player agent.<\/p>\n
The indictment alleges that Beasley lost millions of dollars gambling during his nine-year NBA career with six teams from 2016-25. He agreed to adjust his performance \u200c\u200cahead of at least three games during the 2023-24 season with the Milwaukee Bucks so that his alleged co-conspirators could wager on his statistics, per the indictment.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege that Beasley accepted bribes in order to reduce or pay off debts he owed to Davis, his teammate with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2020-21. Davis played 12 seasons with \u2060\u2060eight teams from 2010-22.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly way you can beat \u2060\u2060Vegas is sports betting,\u201d Davis texted Beasley in December 2023, according to the indictment. \u201c\u2026 We can make some good money.\u201d<\/p>\n
A month later, Beasley told Davis he would underperform on \u2060\u2060rebounding in a January 26, 2024, game between the Bucks and Cleveland Cavaliers, per the indictment. He finished \u2060\u2060with three rebounds, under the betting line \u2060\u2060of 3.5 at some sportsbooks.<\/p>\n
\u201c(The) defendants and their co-conspirators placed numerous fraudulent wagers totalling tens of thousands of dollars conditioned on defendant Malik Beasley\u2019s \u2018under rebounds\u2019 prop bets,\u201d the indictment said.<\/p>\n
As of \u200c\u200cmidday Monday, the NBA had not released a public statement on the indictments.<\/p>\n
Beasley, a first-round pick in the 2016 NBA Draft by the \u200c\u200cDenver \u200c\u200cNuggets, earned nearly $60 million in his NBA career, which ended in 2019. Davis, a first-round pick in 2010 by the Toronto Raptors, earned almost $47 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beasley, Davis, and an NBA agent are among six defendants indicted on charges related to an alleged sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,459,44,457,82,772,1690],"class_list":["post-769404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}