Nightcap Hour 3: Malik Beasley INDICTED in NBA Betting SCHEME + Chris Johnson DIAGNOSED With ALS + Lions RELEASE Terrion Arnold

**Shannon Sharpe** (0:01)
Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis and an NBA agent are among the six defendants indicted Monday on charges related to an alleged sports gambling scheme that targeted at least four games during the 2023-24 seasons. According to the indictment, Beasley lost millions of dollars gambling during his nine-year NBA career. He agreed to manipulate his statistics ahead of at least four games during the 2023-24 season. While he was with the Milwaukee Bucks, so that co-conspirators could wager on the stats according to the indictment. The indictment included examples of wages tolling more than 75,000 with net winnings of at least 121,000. Beasley received bribes from co-conspirators, often used to reduce the pay-off debts owed Davis, prosecutors alleged in the indictment. The two were teammates with the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2021 season.
Davis was known in the scheme as Beasley's gatekeeper, prosecutors alleged. Only way you can beat Vegas in sports betting, Davis text Beasley during the 2023 season according to the indictment. We can make some good money.
A month later, Beasley informed Davis that he intended to underperform on rebounding in a January 26, 2024 game between the Bucs and the Cavaliers according to the indictment. The defendants and their co-conspirators placed numerous fraudulent wages totaling tens of thousands of dollars conditioned on the defendant Malik Beasley under rebound prop bets, the indictment alleges. Beasley finished with three rebounds under the betting line of three and a half at some sports book.

**Chad Johnson** (1:48)
I don't know how to cut up the slices for you. It's foul, bro.
It's foul on so many levels. This is true. And it's just ain't no place in the game for you. Okay, Ocho, you look at the Swordsby kid. Hell, he don't deserve to be in the damn draft.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:05)
They won't let him come to the NFL. Kelle will say, nah, we're with you. You'll be up there throwing our games.

**Chad Johnson** (2:11)
Right. How are we going to know? How are we going to know we bring you on as a member of our team? How are we going to know if you're throwing games or not?
Come on, bro.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:24)
Help me understand, Uncle Joe.

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:26)
Everything is for me to understand. So, Joe, Ocho, I ain't fit to hold you. Go ahead, Ocho.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (2:30)
Help me understand something. As somebody that don't gamble, right? As somebody that has millions and people that throw money away and you gamble and you're already making millions, but what you're gambling is not getting you nowhere near what you're already making. So, I'm trying to understand, where's the excitement? Where's the adrenaline rush if you're already making millions and the chump, excuse me, I don't mean to be disrespectful. I'm not saying the chump change. I'm saying the chump change to someone already making an excessive amount of money.
Why are they even taking the chance in doing it? Especially when you can't control, well, they can't control that coming.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:09)
Actually, he can control that coming. You hear what Ed Davis said? That's the only way you can beat Vegas.

**Chad Johnson** (3:15)
Yeah.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:16)
They set the line, we come under or we bet you go over. Now, all of a sudden, now I'm looking at him sideways.
Hey, do you remember? Hey, the game was like, it was December the half. They were going by nine. He got the ball, went all the way down the court and dunked the ball. We don't think nothing about it. We're like, oh man, now you look at sideways.

**Chad Johnson** (3:52)
Yeah.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (3:52)
But Unc, it's not enough money. It ain't even worth it.

**Chad Johnson** (3:55)
But Ocho.

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:56)
Based on what you-
But see, here's the thing. Once they get them hooks in you, they got you. All you got to do it is one time and they got you.

**Chad Johnson** (4:06)
Because- Hey, hey.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:07)
All you got to do it is one time, Ocho.

**Chad Johnson** (4:09)
Because I'm trying to see how the hell you get in debt.
You get in debt doing this and the type of money that you're making. Are you making this money for some cats who obviously need it? But I still, I don't get it, bro. I'm sorry, I don't get it.

**Shannon Sharpe** (4:29)
The only way you can beat Vegas is sports betting. Davis texts Beasley in December 2023, according to the indictment.
Why would you take something like that from your phone? Bro, you better go get your ass to throw away.

**Iso Joe Johnson** (4:45)