NBA investigating Beasley gambling allegations

The NBA is conducting its ain probe into gambling allegations against Malik Beasley, the free-agent defender linked to a national probe this offseason, the league confirmed to ESPN connected Wednesday.

The probe stems from allegations of improper gambling connected NBA games and prop bets from the 2023-24 play erstwhile Beasley was with the Milwaukee Bucks, according to sources acquainted with the matter.

Beasley's attorney, Steve Haney, told ESPN that his lawsuit is "fully cooperating" with the NBA investigation.

ESPN reported connected June 29 that Beasley, 28, was nether national probe by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. At the time, the NBA said it was cooperating with the national investigation.

Two months later, Haney told ESPN that Beasley was not a target and had not been charged successful the national probe that has resulted successful 4 blameworthy pleas related to a gambling strategy involving erstwhile NBA subordinate Jontay Porter.

The quality of the national probe broke conscionable earlier Beasley and the Detroit Pistons were acceptable to implicit a three-year, $42 cardinal contract, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania. The connection was pulled, but different teams person expressed involvement successful Beasley, according to Charania.

The league probe is believed to beryllium successful its last stages, according to a root acquainted with the matter. In a caller Instagram post, Beasley wrote that helium would beryllium making his determination soon.

At slightest 1 U.S. sportsbook detected antithetic betting involvement connected Beasley's statistic opening astir January 2024, according to a gambling manufacture source.

The root pointed to a crippled betwixt the Bucks and Portland Trail Blazers connected Jan. 31, 2024. The likelihood connected Beasley signaling less than 2.5 rebounds moved importantly earlier the game, shortening from astir +120 to -250 owed to a surge of enactment connected the under. Beasley finished with six rebounds, and the bets deemed antithetic lost.

ESPN's Shams Charania contributed to this report.