Malik Beasley has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges from the Department of Justice's investigation into illegal sports gambling. Hoops Rumors, citing a Twitter report from Vorkunov, said Beasley will submit the plea on December 9 in Brooklyn. ESPN also reported a Dec. 9 hearing in Brooklyn, where he is scheduled to change his plea.
Hoops Rumors says the deal followed plea negotiations with DOJ lawyers. It first reported those talks on October 24. Yahoo Sports noted that Beasley was indicted in June after prosecutors said he manipulated several NBA games as part of a larger gambling scheme. CBS Sports added a detail that the other summaries don't give: Beasley's lawyer confirmed the deal, and the plea covers manipulating stats to win prop bets. The feed text we have doesn't say which games were involved. It doesn't give the specific counts or any sentencing terms, and we haven't seen the full articles. Most outlets now call him a former or ex-NBA player.
BenchScout's archive shows his last NBA game on May 1, 2025, with the Detroit Pistons. In that 2025 season he played 82 games and averaged 16.3 points on 43.0% shooting. He made 319 three-pointers, which was a career high in the archive. He also averaged 2.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists. Those are the numbers from his final season of record.
The archive also lists a season with the Bucks just before that. He played 79 games for Milwaukee, averaging 11.3 points and making 224 threes. Milwaukee is 1-2 this season and fourth in the Central. It lost 128-116 at Washington on October 21 and 127-116 at Philadelphia on October 24. It then beat Indiana 110-102 on Monday. None of the reporting we have ties the case to any current Bucks game or player.
Wed, Oct 28, 8:00 PM ET
The Bucks host Houston on Wednesday, October 28. The next step in the case is the December 9 plea hearing in Brooklyn. The reporting we have doesn't say when sentencing might happen.
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