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 and Ammar Flappy Awawdeh, and how he might be working to help get him caught.

Torre elaborated, “Some of the outstanding questions in this enormous NBA nightmare related to Malik Beasley. Because, of course, Malik Beasley, you should know, happened to join the Lakers roster on February 9th, 2023. The same day, Lakers assistant Damon Jones was allegedly texting inside information to get a big bet on Milwaukee tonight to an unidentified co-conspirator number nine, described in the indictment only as a resident of Brooklyn.”

Ammar Flappy Awawdeh is the cousin of Malik Beasley, which makes this connection even more interesting if Beasley becomes the next active NBA player to get in trouble.

“Malik Beasley, you may 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 publicly mentioned,” Beasley said. “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.”
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Just by connecting the dots, Torre seems to think that Ammar Flappy Awawdeh is working with the FBI to try to catch different NBA players involved in the NBA betting scandal. He also teased that Beasley was next up.
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.