Malik Beasley is fucked.
Last season, Malik Beasley averaged 16.3 and became only the 4th player in NBA history to hit over 300 3-pointers in a single season.
He was instrumental in helping the Detroit Pistons make the playoffs for the first time since 2019.
Pre-Covd shit.
The BeforeTimes.
He and the Pistons were close to a new 3-year $42 million deal to return as the sniper—ready to catch and shoot as opposing defenses attempt to stop Cade Cunningham.
Then the feds came-a-knocking…
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 on Sunday.
The allegations are from the 2023-24 season, when Beasley played for the Milwaukee Bucks, sources said. Beasley averaged 11.3 points in 79 games that season, during which he made a career-high 77 starts.
At least one prominent U.S. sportsbook detected unusually heavy betting interest on Beasley’s statistics beginning around January 2024, a gambling industry source told ESPN’s David Purdum.
A gambling industry source pointed to a game between the Bucks and the Portland Trail Blazers on Jan. 31, 2024. The odds on Beasley recording fewer than 2.5 rebounds moved significantly at sportsbooks before the game, shortening from around +120 to around -250 due to a surge of action on the under. Beasley finished with six rebounds, and the bets that were deemed unusual lost. (Source)
The US District Attorney is sniffing around Malik Beasley because two years ago, a suspiciously large number of people rushed to bet the under on his rebounds and he grabbed more rebounds than he had in the previous two games combined.
Jontay Porter was banned from the NBA for showing feet in gambling chat rooms.
Terry Rozier was accused of some shady gambling shit and completely forgot how to dribble.
He’ll never be the same.
Malik Beasley came off the most important season of his career and now he’s about to be get perpwalked out of his driveway by the FBI because he trolled a bunch of bettors or ran some stupid, meaningless scam that gained him nothing and cost him everything.
Even if Beasley is totally cleared from this mess—which even if he does, it won’t get nearly as much attention as this initial story—Malik’s reputation is tanked.
In 2020, Beasley served 78 days in prison for pulling out a rifle at a family that was just passing by his house.
He’s a role player. Role players are replaceable.
Every year, new role players are drafted to replace the ones who got to jail for 78 days over stupid shit.
Why would an NBA team invest capital into a player who, on any given night, is capable of altering their performance for the sake of tricking sportsbooks?
While 90-year-old LeBron James opts into another NBA season, 28-year-old Malik Beasley accidentally just ended his career.
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