{"id":2497,"date":"2026-06-29T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:12:50","slug":"2-more-nba-players-indicted-who-turned-professional-basketball-into-a-criminal-betting-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2497","title":{"rendered":"2 more NBA players indicted who \u2018turned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When he was playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024, Beasley agreed to tailor his performance based on prop bet trends in those games, prosecutors alleged.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2495\">The Supreme Court upholds Fed independence by saving Lisa Cook\u2019s job\u2014and also saves U.S. debt from a crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said Beasley and others \u201cturned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The schemes, he added, \u201cerode the integrity of American sports and victimize the sports-watching public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beasley\u2019s attorney was not immediately available for comment. The identity of Davis\u2019 lawyer was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Nocella said the scheme involved hundreds of thousands of dollars. Six people were named in the indictment unsealed in Brooklyn. Davis, who has been out of the NBA since 2022, was among those placing bets on Beasley\u2019s performance, the indictment states.<\/p>\n<p>In April, former NBA player Damon Jones, 49,\u00a0became the first person\u00a0to plead guilty in a gambling sweep that led to the arrests of more than 30 people, including reputed mobsters and other basketball figures.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jones entered guilty pleas to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in schemes to defraud major sportsbooks, including DraftKings and FanDuel, and filch millions of dollars from unwitting poker players.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2493\">\u2018Podcasts are the NBA\u2019: Scott Galloway on Kara Swisher\u2019s big success \u2014\u00a0\u2018there\u2019s a small amount of people making a lot of money\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said he used \u201cinsider information\u201d through his relationships in the NBA to gain an edge in sports bets.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Beasley\u00a0last played for the Detroit Pistons in 2024-25, averaging 16 points. He is one of five players in NBA history with more than 300 3-pointers in a season, but has not played in the NBA since because of the investigation. He played briefly for a team in Puerto Rico earlier this year.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Davis was a journeyman who was primarily a backup in a 12-year career that got him roughly $48 million in gross salary. He and Beasley briefly were teammates in Minnesota in the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the biggest figures in the sprawling gambling investigation is\u00a0Chauncey Billups, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame who was coach of the Portland Trail Blazers when he was charged last year.<\/p>\n<p>Billups is accused of participating in a conspiracy to fix high-stakes card games tied to La Cosa Nostra organized crime families that cheated unsuspecting gamblers out of at least $7 million. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Another key figure is\u00a0Terry Rozier, who was on the Miami Heat when he was charged in 2025. Rozier is accused of conspiring with friends to help them win bets on his performance during a 2023 game when he played for the Charlotte Hornets. He, too, has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2491\">Supreme Court rules against Donald Trump in his quest to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook \u2014\u00a0for now<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Beasley and Ed Davis face federal indictment in a widening scheme that has now charged 30+ people, including figures tied to La Cosa Nostra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2 more NBA players indicted who \u2018turned professional basketball into a criminal betting operation\u2019 - 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