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 wagers 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 allege 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 allege. Only way you can beat Vegas in sports betting, Davis takes 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 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, Cal will say, no, we're in trouble with you. You be up there throwing our games.

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

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

**Shannon Sharpe** (2:26)
Everything ain't for me to understand. So, Joe, I ain't finna 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, you know, 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 is someone already making an excessive amount of money.
Why are they even taking the chance and 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. Joe, you remember when Cade Cunningham passed him that ball last year, and the ball went through his hand two years ago? Do you remember that joke? I'm looking at him, hey, do you remember? Hey, the game was like nine, it was seven and a half. They were up 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.

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

**Shannon Sharpe** (3:57)
Ochocinco, 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. Cause all you got to do it is one time, Ochocinco.

**Chad Johnson** (4:09)
Cause I'm trying to see how the hell are you getting debt? You know, you getting debt doing this and the type of money that you're making. Like, are you making this money for some cats who, you know, 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 about to go get your ass and throw away.