One of the biggest sports stories in recent memory revolves around the massive NBA gambling scandal that became public right after the 2025 NBA season started. It involved rigged poker games and point shaving in sports gambling. Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were initially arrested for their involvement, but more could be coming.
Sports investigative reporter Pablo Torre has recently been at the forefront of many big stories in the sports world, especially the NBA, with the alleged “fake” company paying Kawhi Leonard. Now, he has been digging up more information on what is going on with this scandal, and he has drawn a significant connection to current NBA player Malik Beasley.
“Some of the outstanding questions in this enormous NBA nightmare relate to Malik Beasley. Because, of course, Malik Beasley, you should know, happened to join the Lakers roster on February 9th, 2023,” Torre said in the latest episode of “Pablo Torre Finds Out.”
“The same day that Lakers assistant Damon Jones was allegedly texting inside information to ‘get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight' to an unidentified co-conspirator number nine, who was described in the indictment only as a resident of Brooklyn.
“Malik Beasley, you may now recall, is also the player that the cousin of Ammar Flappy Awawdeh, a resident of Brooklyn, had been tweeting about months before the federal investigation into Beasley was ever mentioned in public,” Torre continued. “But months after, Ammar Flappy Awawdeh had turned himself into the feds, joining the other charter members of that Jontay Porter group chat, only to very curiously not be named as a defendant in the government's NBA betting indictment when it got unsealed last week.”
As Torre reports, Awawdeh's cousin, “Moose,” teased in January that Beasley was next up to be caught up in a betting scandal — after Jontay Porter and Terry Rozier — well before any public suspicion was attributed to Beasley.
Despite these connections, it is worth noting that the NBA initially examined Beasley, and nothing substantial was found during that investigation. His involvement at the federal level is still up in the air.
