Malik Beasley is no longer a target of the probe on gambling, the lawyers say – NBC Sports Philadelphia

The player of the NBA Malik Beasley is no longer a target in a federal gambling investigation by the eastern district of New York, his lawyers reported to Shams Charania of Espn.

Lawyers Steve Haney and Mike Schachter told Charania that the Eastern District of New York has established that Beasley is no longer a goal following accusations on gambling on NBA games and support bets during the 2023-24 season.

“Months after the beginning of this investigation, Malik remains unloaded and it is not the goal of this investigation,” Haney said to Espn. “An accusation without accusation, accusation or sentence should never have the catastrophic consequence this caused Malik. This was literally the opposite of the presumption of innocence.”

On Friday, the Eastern District of New York refused Espn’s comment on the matter.

The news of the investigations came out in June, just as Beasley was about to enter the NBA free agency in the wake of a Breakout season with Detroit Pistons. The spokesman for the NBA Mike Bass said at the moment that the League “collaborated with the investigations of the federal prosecutors”.

Beasley, 28, remains a free agent of the NBA, although Charania reported that several teams have kept in touch with its representation.

Charania previously reported that Beasley and Pistons were in “serious interviews” on a three -year contract of 42 million dollars to keep it in Detroit before the investigations.

Beasley scored 16.2 points per game on average and played all 82 games of the regular season in 2024-25 after signing a one-year agreement with the Pistons the last season.

His previous NBA stops include The Denver Nuggets (2016-20), Minnesota Timberwolves (2020-22), Utah Jazz (2022-23), Los Angeles Lakers (2023) and Milwaukee Bucks (2023-24). He was sentenced to 120 days in prison in 2021 deriving from a crime for threats of violence and in the end he was suspended for 12 games from the NBA.

Beasley’s probe arrived more than a year after Jontay Porter has been banned from the NBA for investigations on the prop. In the end, Porter said he was guilty of having committed a cable fraud, with a sentence set for this December since public ministries estimate that he could get up to four years in prison.

An investigation by the League found that the former Toronto Raptors striker violated the rules of the League revealing information to sports betting and betting on the NBA games.

The National Basketball Players Association said on Friday that there was no proof of a greater problem in terms of championship with gambling over Porter.

“The NBA players compete at the highest levels with the utmost integrity and are concerned that proposal bets have become an increasingly alarming source of players’ harassment, both online and in person,” said a spokesman for the NBPA. “If closest regulations can help to minimize that abuse, then we claim to take a closer look at them.”