Moose, the Money and a Garbage-Time God: A PTFO Investigation

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Speaker 28 I have slept for like four hours.

Speaker 29 We have been reporting this up till the second.

Speaker 30 We're still reporting it as we're recording this.

Speaker 31 We don't have time to waste, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 This is a very serious story, a very stupid story, and I think an almost shockingly smart story comedy comes in threes it's a funny story

Speaker 35 i feel like we're gonna get another revelation based on how this morning and this past couple weeks have gone we're gonna get something else here pablo so just stand by as we're retaping this we continue to live the three of us rule of three continue to live inside a rabbit hole that can only be described also as dank it stinks of all sorts of things including literally weed so thank you to tom haberstro and aminel hasen for reprising your roles as ptfo correspondents.

Speaker 27 It is great to have you here.

Speaker 29 It's great to be here.

Speaker 7 Okay, so the reason I am Voltroning here with my friends Tom and Amin, the internet brain co-hosts of Basketball Illuminati, is because this episode is going to be an investigation.

Speaker 6 An investigation into the newest and quite possibly weirdest mystery in the era of legalized gambling on professional sports.

Speaker 46 And this investigation required not only a dozen sources, as well as the kind of statistical insight you can only get at tomthefinder.com, but also in Amin, a former Phoenix Suns exec who loves Nicolas Cage movies, as you will see.

Speaker 41 Because in April of 2024, as you might recall, An obscure Toronto Raptor named Jante Porter got banned for life from the NBA for betting on and tanking games, allegedly, as early as January 2024.

Speaker 40 Porter ultimately pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a deli owner named Amar Awade and a few other gamblers.

Speaker 10 And on our YouTube channel, by the way, you can now see a photo of these co-conspirators from the federal complaint.

Speaker 25 Amar Awade is the guy in the top left in the red hoodie.

Speaker 6 But that was then.

Speaker 43 A couple weeks ago, on the eve of NBA free agency,

Speaker 9 the spotlight turned to someone new.

Speaker 51 This is a serious development from one of the NBA's top free agents right now. Sources tell me the U.S.

Speaker 51 District Attorney's Office is investigating Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley on allegations of gambling on NBA games and prop bets. I'm told it was during allegedly the 2023-2024 season.

Speaker 51 Beasley and the Pistons were in serious talks on finalizing a three-year $42 million contract that would have brought Beasley back to Detroit.

Speaker 52 The Pistons have added Duncan Robinson. They added him because Malik Beasley has some financial problems.
He's got a federal investigation.

Speaker 54 Source told me this situation is worse than the Porter situation.

Speaker 55 Oh, they released the information for a reason. The timing of the release is for a reason.
The government wants to get as much attention as possible.

Speaker 56 Oh, this is FBI.

Speaker 52 This isn't local. This is FBI.

Speaker 33 Yeah, this is not the federal investigation.

Speaker 48 Oh, listen, brother.

Speaker 58 Look, I know one thing for certain, two things for sure.

Speaker 39 If it's local police, you've got a 50-50 chance.

Speaker 58 If it's the government, uh,

Speaker 46 and if this scandal is the first you have ever really thought about Malik Beasley, perhaps because you're not addicted to NBA Twitter as the three of us are,

Speaker 52 I get it.

Speaker 32 Malik Beasley is not super famous.

Speaker 40 He's played for six different teams.

Speaker 1 In fact, aggressively gambling on Malik Beasley was itself a red flag.

Speaker 40 According to ESPN, what one U.S.

Speaker 35 sports book detected was, quote, unusually heavy betting interest on Beasley's statistics beginning around January 2024.

Speaker 35 This was when Malik Beasley was actually with the Milwaukee Bucks. And that was one game, January 31st, 2024.

Speaker 35 The sports book reported something very suspicious happened.

Speaker 35 Quote, the odds on Malik Beasley recording fewer than two and a half rebounds moved significantly at sports books before the game due to a surge of action on the under.

Speaker 34 Not a common gambling subject, right? Like people are betting on LeBron's points plus rebounds plus assists or Giannis over-under on thumps for three-pointers made by Steph Curry.

Speaker 34 You're not digging deep for Malik Beasley rebounds.

Speaker 7 And so on the eve of free agency, we are told, when news of the resultant federal investigation broke, the Detroit Pistons were staggered.

Speaker 35 They had met with Malik Beasley, according to sources that I talked to. Malik Beasley and his agent and were basically ironing out the markings of a $42 million contract.

Speaker 35 Three years, $42 million, which if you look at the capology, that's basically the full mid-level exception.

Speaker 14 which Malik Beasley was so, so, so close to getting.

Speaker 49 In fact, if there's one more thing to know about Malik Beasley right now, it is that as a basketball player, he is radically different

Speaker 35 from Jante Porter.

Speaker 35 Malik Beasley is one of the greatest, full stop, greatest three-point shooters in NBA history. He had the Minnesota Timberwolves single season three-point field goals made record.

Speaker 35 And then a couple years later, he did the same thing with the Detroit Pistons.

Speaker 62 The list this past season, it was Anthony Edwards very narrowly just ahead of Malik Beasley, Beasley, who was ahead of Steph Curry.

Speaker 35 Malik Beasley, statistically, has scored more three-pointers per minute than any player in NBA history, except for Steph Curry. Think about that.

Speaker 35 We are talking about in a three-point era, Malik Beasley does more of these things than anybody who had played at least 500 games in their NBA career, except for Stephen Wardell Curry.

Speaker 64 The reason why Malik Beasley, that number, that money vaporized, by the way, possibly Malik Beasley's career now has vaporized at age 28.

Speaker 29 And this led us to then try and monitor as much activity as we could ourselves by grinding tape.

Speaker 48 What's publicly accessible?

Speaker 64 And so what did we do?

Speaker 66 We looked for every piece of evidence we could find in the public record.

Speaker 62 And this happens to also be how we found this clip, which was buried inside a vlog on Malik Beasley's YouTube channel from six months ago during the best NBA season of Malik Beasley's career when when he was with the Detroit Pistons.

Speaker 63 And Malik Beasley is pushing a shopping cart through a Target in Detroit, and he suddenly gets spotted by an employee at the store.

Speaker 29 What's going on, bro?

Speaker 69 What's the music for, bro?

Speaker 70 I need a monitor, but it's all good.

Speaker 68 I gotta go practice.

Speaker 13 Real shit.

Speaker 8 Thank you.

Speaker 68 You gotta make my fan duel. Turn the f ⁇ up.
I can't hear that.

Speaker 8 I can't hear you.

Speaker 1 Malik Beasley holding his hands up in the air and saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, FanDuel.

Speaker 5 I can't talk about that.

Speaker 35 That's right. And as we will find out in this story, everything is so complicated.
Like even that little clip.

Speaker 71 You know, that's not even a clip that's been circulating on Twitter or Reddit or TikTok.

Speaker 28 We found that one buried, but the stuff that's been going viral, there's one in particular, right?

Speaker 1 That is back to his days in Minnesota.

Speaker 35 This Minnesota one viewed 14 million times. And everyone that I talked to in reporting out this story, they had all seen this clip and they'd all laughed at this clip in ways that everybody.

Speaker 35 where it's just like, I mean, come on.

Speaker 35 What this clip is showing us is a very alert Malik Beasley with five seconds left in the game, waiting for a free throw to be attempted by the Clippers, who are up big in this game.

Speaker 35 The Tipperals are going to lose this game, but Malik Beasley doesn't just get the ball and let the clock run out. He gets the ball and sprints all the way down the floor.

Speaker 72 Beasley's going to get it off one last shot. How about Beasley?

Speaker 68 21 points.

Speaker 35 And then does a two-handed dunk right before the buzzer. And what's interesting is that that cut the Clippers lead from nine to seven.
The spread on that game, guys, was eight and a half.

Speaker 35 So went from the Clippers covering to the Minnesota Timberwolves covering after that play.

Speaker 34 The thing I'm fascinated by is the amount of people saying, there it is. Proof.
Oh, that's proof. You see how he looked over there on the bench and then they looked up at the score.

Speaker 34 That's proof that these guys are gambling. I'm like, you're basically accusing someone of the ultimate crime within this profession.

Speaker 34 And so you get viral tweets with someone saying, oh, Malik Beasley's 100% going to jail. Or, yeah, he's done.
He's finished. It's just wildly irresponsible.

Speaker 28 Here's the complexity, though, that Tom is alluding to.

Speaker 6 Malik Beasley has already been to jail.

Speaker 37 Separate story.

Speaker 30 We're going to get there.

Speaker 28 I mean, we're going to get there. We'll explain that in a bit.

Speaker 29 But one source I spoke to who was close to several of Malik Beasley's current and former NBA teammates immediately told me when I asked if he had heard anything about the gambling issues, quote, he's a dumbass.

Speaker 66 I believe everything, end quote.

Speaker 22 So that's not enough.

Speaker 28 We had to keep digging.

Speaker 63 The thing that we got to, guys.

Speaker 60 The real story inside the story that no one else is really talking about is this mystery.

Speaker 1 It is an online mystery that I believe, that we all now believe, is the key to understanding the story of Malik Beasley as well as this era, the era of legalized gambling in sports in general.

Speaker 71 And this mystery started in January of this year with a Twitter user who goes by the name of Freemoose underscore NBA.

Speaker 35 You might remember that on January 30th, 2025, a few months ago, this news broke.

Speaker 75 Now to a developing story.

Speaker 75 The NBA confirmed Thursday that suspicious gambling activity surrounding guard Terry Rozier in a game nearly two years ago is now being investigated by federal prosecutors as a part of the same probe that led to the lifetime ban of former Raptors player John Tay Porter.

Speaker 75 Now at the time, Rozier was playing for the Hornets.

Speaker 35 So Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, who's under contract with the Heat as we speak, he became the second player after John Tay Porter to be publicly identified as a part of this federal investigation into sports betting.

Speaker 35 And what I'm told is, contrary to Shams Tarania's reporting, is that Terry Rozier has not been cleared of any wrongdoing, only that his name came up in the existing federal investigation.

Speaker 74 And this relates directly to why Moose

Speaker 37 is this character that we're focusing on, because Free Moose underscore NBA, Tom.

Speaker 32 speaks to the federal investigation, which clearly is also still ongoing.

Speaker 35 Right. On that day, the same day that Terry Rozier news drops, this guy, Free Moose underscore NBA, tweeted something that was even more provocative because on that day, he posted, quote,

Speaker 35 first was Jante, then was Rozier. Next, you'll hear about capital M,

Speaker 35 four asterisks, capital B, and then six asterisks.

Speaker 34 The symmetry of the rule of three.

Speaker 31 Jante, Rozier, M stars, B stars.

Speaker 35 This guy, Freemoose NBA, posted another tweet right after that one and said there's another current player who's going to have a report come out about them next.

Speaker 35 Won't say the name, but they play on the pistons right now.

Speaker 66 What this is, is the first documented mention by anyone anywhere that Malik Beasley was going to come up as part of this investigation.

Speaker 57 This is how this news actually breaks.

Speaker 61 Free Moose underscore NBA has it in that rule of three tweet.

Speaker 35 And in this reporting, I determined this guy at the time of this tweet had something like 10,000 followers. And a lot of them were like, huh? Like, what?

Speaker 35 One of them later that night in a tweet exchange with a Pistons fan, because Malik Beasley at this point is playing for the Pistons and being awesome. He tells Moose, you're lying, bro.

Speaker 35 Show me any amount of proof, bro. You don't know what he means to us.

Speaker 30 And Moose says, quote, i can't yet i'm sorry but gotta protect myself 15 views on that it's incredible i mean this 15 this time capsule which is almost six months before the news breaks right on the eve of re-agency six months before it happens it's happening in the mentions of this thing so that's the crazy thing about this is Maybe you think, oh, he's just, he's just throwing shit in the wall and trying to see what sticks, right?

Speaker 34 Shot in the dark. Then he quote tweets that tweet with a screenshot of a betting slip from January 22nd, 2024.

Speaker 34 That betting slip is Johnte Porter Unders, under on points, five and a half, and under on rebounds, three and a half. Now, I know what you're thinking.
Oh, yeah, that's the game, right?

Speaker 34 No,

Speaker 34 the game that was in the court filings under investigation was for the first time was January 26th.

Speaker 34 Yeah, meaning whoever placed the slip had the in

Speaker 34 on

Speaker 34 the Jante Porter action months before the investigation was announced.

Speaker 30 The question here is now very simple, right?

Speaker 61 On some level, because the entire internet, the entire NBA, we can now confirm this, right?

Speaker 26 Everybody begins to ask, Tom, who the f

Speaker 56 is Moose underscore NBA?

Speaker 63 How did a random Twitter user on NBA Twitter know about both Jante Porter and also Malik Beasley on the day that Terry Rogier's name was included for the first time?

Speaker 30 The second of the three guys before any of this was breaking?

Speaker 35 Making things way more complicated is that Free Moose underscore NBA deleted his account and then disappeared off the internet. Nobody

Speaker 35 to this date has been able to solve the mystery of who is Free Moose underscore NBA.

Speaker 3 until now.

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Speaker 2 my old friend Larsa Pippen, and arguably, guys, arguably

Speaker 30 the greatest play in modern Nick's history.

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Bang!

Speaker 79 Bang!

Speaker 79 Knicks take a one-point lead with 13 seconds remaining.

Speaker 79 The garden is shaking right now.

Speaker 54 And none of you will ever look at that play the same way again.

Speaker 28 Okay, so before we get back to the mystery of free moose underscore NBA, we need to also very quickly explain here as much as we can where Malik Beasley himself actually comes from.

Speaker 57 And I did not fully appreciate this until we, again,

Speaker 30 we got into the rabbit hole on him.

Speaker 34 I did not know this at all until we started digging into all of this. Malik Beasley comes from Hollywood, right? His parents are both actors.
His mom has had small roles in Tyler Perry movies, in

Speaker 34 the Hunger Games, in Bad Lieutenant Portal Call with the aforementioned Nicholas Cage.

Speaker 80 When was the last time you saw her? I see her that morning. I go by in case she needs anything.

Speaker 80 But that morning, she said she needs something from the grocery, and she called there and had it delivered by a boy to her home.

Speaker 80 Help me, please. Please help my family.
Killer for my family. Please, sir, help me.

Speaker 34 Help me. It's not just Dina Beasley, the mom.
It's also his father, Michael Beasley, not that Michael Beasley, different Michael Beasley, who he's got over 80 acting credits on IMDB.

Speaker 34 Denzel Washington is friends with him. He calls him the king of the Hollywood South because Michael Beasley has appeared in so many movies and TV shows living in Atlantic.

Speaker 34 And he and Denzel were together in The Great Debaters and Flight and Two Guns.

Speaker 81 Tell us about your trip.

Speaker 24 Lawyer.

Speaker 82 What's the big deal? Lawyer. You were down in Sonora, weren't you?

Speaker 82 You don't think Agent Jessup and the DA know about you and Poppy Lawyer?

Speaker 24 Lawyer, lawyer.

Speaker 9 They know you were at his ranch.

Speaker 83 I know I need a lawyer.

Speaker 35 The fact of the matter is that the actual famous actor that started this all was Malik Beasley's grandfather, John Beasley. He's the most famous one.
He was in Some of All Fears.

Speaker 35 He was also in The Mighty Ducks. And the thing that I just could not believe is that he is the assistant coach that you might remember from Rudy.

Speaker 72 My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next five days.

Speaker 72 And whoever is still standing at the end, maybe we'll use for our scout teams.

Speaker 38 Malik Beasley, if you're wondering, got drafted 19th overall by the Denver Nuggets out of Florida State.

Speaker 32 But he also likes to say,

Speaker 63 if you get him one-on-one, that he was a bit of a child actor himself.

Speaker 70 Honestly, if you want to see me in the background, I'm an extra.

Speaker 45 Look in

Speaker 70 Medea's family reunion.

Speaker 11 What were you doing as an extra, bro?

Speaker 70 I was an extra in Medea's family reunion.

Speaker 45 If you want to see me, I was dancing with my mom.

Speaker 84 I don't think any show has ever investigated Medea's family reunion more thoroughly than Pablo Torre finds out.

Speaker 31 We assigned a certain fact-checker, producer, to go through the film a total of five times.

Speaker 28 We're looking for young Malik beasley dancing with dina right we're looking for this scene that he describes on that youtube live stream with neon

Speaker 20 and we regret to report that we could not find this we found no evidence of it we are fact-checking every element of this story as you will see as much as we can but something we did find instead is a quote that Malik's parents gave to an outlet called noiseomaha.com in 2022.

Speaker 31 According to Michael, his dad, quote, sometimes Malik wants what we have, and so he's in a rush to get it.

Speaker 28 People think because these guys have a lot of money, they're mature, end quote.

Speaker 43 Dina,

Speaker 29 the mom, adds that making millions of dollars at a young age, quote, does not equate to knowledge or experience, end quote, which I think naturally does bring us to the time we mentioned before where Malik Beasley, in real life, did go to jail.

Speaker 35 What you should know about that incident was it came in the spring of 2020 when Malik was with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He got married to a woman named Montana Yao.

Speaker 35 And by the fall of that year, his house had been mistakenly added to what is known as the Parade of Homes tour, which in the Minneapolis area is not just a big event.

Speaker 35 This is one of the biggest home tours across the country.

Speaker 69 Now, if you're looking for something to do this weekend that doesn't include large groups of people, how about taking a drive to explore some of the beautiful homes on the spring parade of homes tour?

Speaker 51 Yeah, there's 434 houses open noon to six today and tomorrow.

Speaker 35 This is when a car full of people pull up to Malik Beasley's house. And apparently in the court records of this incident, he had roped off the driveway.

Speaker 56 that you're allowed to do that. The parade is not welcome here is the implication.

Speaker 85 Exactly.

Speaker 35 Move along. And so this car pulls up to the side of the road, not in his driveway, to the side of the road to figure out what are we going to do next.

Speaker 35 And that's when they turn and they hear a knock on the window. And Malik Beasley came out.
He pointed a rifle at the car. And that incident was reported to the police.

Speaker 35 The police come to the property, Malik Beasley's house, and they search.

Speaker 44 his house.

Speaker 9 And this criminal complaint, I mean, which we pulled on this, you learn that the officers found multiple guns, almost two pounds of weed, a note.

Speaker 28 This is my favorite detail.

Speaker 30 A notebook that had written across the cover, in all caps, the word trap with two exclamation points.

Speaker 71 And the notebook contained, in case you were, of course, wondering, quote, rules for smoking marijuana in the home.

Speaker 60 And one of the rules, quote, only spend $2,500 a month on weed.

Speaker 65 End quote.

Speaker 50 Only.

Speaker 54 Are you sure that notebook isn't also in Pablo Torrey's house?

Speaker 35 Two months after this incident comes to light, right? He signs a four-year $60 million extension. His big payday.
Like he did it.

Speaker 35 He not just made it to the NBA, but he was able to get that big second contract that every NBA player wants.

Speaker 29 And what an awesome week for him and his wife Montana, Yao, right?

Speaker 20 Just imagine.

Speaker 78 $60 million comes in.

Speaker 63 Except

Speaker 47 three days after that deal gets signed.

Speaker 28 And this is also while Malik is simultaneously awaiting sentencing for the gun incident.

Speaker 31 He is photographed holding hands at a mall in Miami with a masked but unmistakable former PTFO guests like the two of you by the name of Larsa Pippen.

Speaker 48 The ex-wife of Scotty Pippen, future ex-girlfriend of Marcus Jordan, and also, crucially, a recent guest on the Jason Lee podcast.

Speaker 84 When you look back on a Malik and go, that was a mistake.

Speaker 85 Why do you think you didn't see it when I saw it?

Speaker 86 Because I had COVID brain. I had just had COVID.
I was stuck in my house. I hadn't gone anywhere.
And he was there and he was like on me, you know, like, let me see, let me come see you.

Speaker 86 Let me come see you. And I thought, okay, come see me.

Speaker 54 It should come as no surprise to everyone that Malik's wife, Fontana Yao, filed for divorce.

Speaker 7 And so I just got to jump in here to to point out that yes, all roads do lead to Larsa Pippin, because of course they do.

Speaker 5 And from there, Malik Beasley's road gets a lot rockier.

Speaker 10 He proceeds to plead guilty to a single felony charge of threats of violence because of the whole Parade of Homes incident, telling a courtroom in Minnesota, quote, I'm not that person, end quote.

Speaker 46 But then that person gets sued repeatedly over approximately $8 million in total.

Speaker 23 And some of of this has since been settled, but the list of creditors includes a Maryland firm that specializes in loaning money to pro athletes, his own apartment building in Detroit, his former agent in New York, his barber shop in Milwaukee, and...

Speaker 54 Not to be outdone, his dentist in Minnesota is also suing him, Dr. Hassan Es-Shahabi.

Speaker 40 And by the way, Minnesota proceeds to trade Malik Beasley to the Jazz, which trades him to the Lakers, who don't renew his contract.

Speaker 40 And so he winds up in Milwaukee that way, playing in that game on January 31st, 2024, that got flagged for suspicious betting activity.

Speaker 12 The season before that, Malik Beasley had been making about $16 million.

Speaker 35 But Malik Beasley, in the season where all of this stuff is happening, he has dropped his salary 90%.

Speaker 6 A 90% pay cut.

Speaker 46 All of which makes the story of Malik Beasley look as simple as that wildly viral clip of him going coast to coast and covering the spread in Minnesota.

Speaker 41 But in the course of fact-checking, we wound up giving that clip, that same clip, the Medea's family reunion treatment, as it were.

Speaker 40 We watched the film over and over and over again before ultimately calling for a deeper statistical analysis.

Speaker 9 And we discovered something shocking

Speaker 42 about its alleged simplicity.

Speaker 35 It is not simple. I talked to Mike Bowie for this story.
Like he is this analytics guru, this mastermind behind this amazing indispensable site called Inpredictable.com.

Speaker 35 And most of the stats on his site are about clutch with respect to the score of the game. Meaning, you know, game within five, final five minutes.
That's typically what we know as clutch.

Speaker 35 But there's this other piece that until we were reporting this story, I don't think anyone's really kind of done a research project like this, which is what if we were looking at clutch in terms of the spread?

Speaker 35 And according to Mike Bowie's numbers, he looked at this since 2021. So the last five seasons.
Here are the numbers. Garbage time.

Speaker 35 So when the game is out of reach, but Vegas clutch situations, the spread is still in play. Malik Beasley shot 62%

Speaker 35 effective field goal percentage, which is waited for three-pointers, on 147 attempts.

Speaker 35 Garbage time and Vegas garbage time situations, which means both the game is out of reach and the spread is not in play.

Speaker 35 Malik Beasley goes from 62% of field goal percentage up to 64% of field goal percentage. So what this says is...

Speaker 35 When the game is meaningless in both the score and the Vegas spread, he gets even better. Malik Beasley is a garbage time god.

Speaker 35 That Minnesota Timberwolves clip, that's just Malik Beasley all the time.

Speaker 10 And so I do want to just now focus, though, on the most compelling piece of evidence that has been reported, right?

Speaker 23 Which is that there was, Tom, this unusual betting activity, this spike in betting activity.

Speaker 61 This is the seemingly the one and only identifiable example so far that we have.

Speaker 37 And it's this flurry of bets on the under for Malik Beasley rebounds.

Speaker 23 Again, a prop bet in that Bucks Blazers game on January 31st, 2024.

Speaker 11 So what is the real story with that particular example then?

Speaker 35 Right. The key thing here is that the line was at two and a half rebounds.
In that game, where all this unusual betting activity is coming in on the under, guess what happens?

Speaker 35 Malik Beasley gets six rebounds.

Speaker 61 So the bet is Malik Beasley is going to tank this very tankable category.

Speaker 17 Just not going to try.

Speaker 78 I mean, and instead,

Speaker 1 he has one of the better rebounding games of his season.

Speaker 54 He's busting his ass. Look at the film.
He's busting his ass trying to get every rebound imaginable. It looks like Charles Barkley out there.

Speaker 52 Again, on our YouTube channel, which you should be at already, like we're going through the video here.

Speaker 57 You can see it.

Speaker 35 This is the crazy part of this story is Even the betting activity on Jante Porter, those cashed because he left the games early, right? And all the alleged co-conspirators were betting the unders.

Speaker 35 And Jante Porter was taking himself out of these games, effectively clinching the unders. And those bets were cashing.
The opposite happened.

Speaker 35 And Malik Beasley, he's out on the primer defending his man.

Speaker 35 The shot goes up and he sprints from across the floor to go haul in a rebound on the other side of the floor over DeAndre Ayton, who's seven feet tall, and he's making multiple efforts trying to get these rebounds.

Speaker 35 You would have thought that the betting activity was on the other side based on what Malik Beasley's behaviors in this game is.

Speaker 35 It is so contradictory to the betting activity, to what he actually did in the game.

Speaker 54 If the guy was on the take, he was awful at being on the take.

Speaker 62 And the through line here, when it comes to this part of the story, right, is that it's actually, Tom, really hard to find evidence in this category, at least, of malfeasance in Milwaukee, right?

Speaker 87 His Bucks tenure on tape, when when you grind all of it, you don't see the giant smoking gun.

Speaker 29 It kind of becomes clear, actually, that at this point in our journey, the most important publicly accessible evidence available to us was not going to come from the Bucs,

Speaker 2 it was going to have to come

Speaker 35 from a moose.

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Speaker 35 So the mystery, right, the mystery we've been teasing of how in the hell some random Twitter user had predicted six months before the Malik Beasley news broke that Malik Beasley was going to become the third NBA player investigated for gambling.

Speaker 37 This brings us to, I would say, one immediate problem when it comes to contacting an account whose avatar happens to be a stuffed toy moose wearing a little blue sweater with an NBA logo on the front.

Speaker 10 That is also trapped behind bars like in a jail cell, right?

Speaker 71 This is free moose underscore NBA, Tom.

Speaker 35 And the only way we could do that is to go on a moose hunt.

Speaker 35 Going on a moose hunt.

Speaker 35 Not a silly moose hunt.

Speaker 45 Every parrot knows.

Speaker 54 I don't know that song.

Speaker 42 But speaking of stuff that gets stuck in your head,

Speaker 40 as we had established, Freemoose underscore NBA deleted his Twitter account and disappeared entirely, which is a problem here.

Speaker 40 But here's the thing:

Speaker 40 the tweets that tagged Freemoose underscore NBA are still around.

Speaker 5 And after scrolling through a thousand orphaned replies and direct messaging a few of those posters, it became clear that Freemoose underscore NBA used to go by another handle.

Speaker 44 At Moose underscore NBA.

Speaker 27 But at Moose underscore NBA got suspended by Twitter at one point, hence the call for freedom.

Speaker 54 This is the original Moose NBA account, and the bio says NBA takes you can get behind meme coin expert. And then my favorite emoji, stock chart going up.

Speaker 77 And then, deep inside a haystack of hundreds upon hundreds of truly useless tweets that that tagged Moose underscore NBA,

Speaker 44 Tom found a needle.

Speaker 25 A needle posted by a self-described LeBron fan account.

Speaker 35 This one caught my eye because it not only tagged at Moose underscore NBA, but it also tagged a second account.

Speaker 54 Underscore Mustafa underscore Omar.

Speaker 54 So he says, yo, underscore Mustafa underscore Omar, your shit got suspended. WTF, question mark, question part, no.

Speaker 54 And then he tags at Moose underscore NBA, heartbreak emoji.

Speaker 53 Which I think takes us to what Moose might actually be referring to as a mean is again nailing the pronunciation.

Speaker 1 Because I suppose it means that some Mustafas also might go by Moose.

Speaker 54 The most common nickname of anybody with an Arabic name is if your name's Muhammad, probably people are going to call you Mo.

Speaker 54 If your name's Mustafa, probably people are gonna call you Moose. Yes.

Speaker 5 But the problem with underscore Mustafa underscore Omar, as you can tell, is that this account didn't exist anymore either.

Speaker 21 But when you searched for that specific handle, underscore Mustafa underscore Omar, on Elon Musk's deeply broken platform,

Speaker 40 something

Speaker 14 interesting happened.

Speaker 18 An even weirder account kept popping up.

Speaker 44 And this one was actively tweeting about the Knicks.

Speaker 48 This was at

Speaker 21 123-747-484-849-lowercase A.

Speaker 54 This is the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible latex mask of Twitter, right? Where it's just like, numbers, they'll never guess who it is.

Speaker 64 But if you obsessively scroll through the tweets sent by at 123-747-4849-lowercase lowercase A long enough, it turns out, you can stumble across another clue, another needle.

Speaker 45 And this one was a reply to another former PTFO guest at Worldwide Wob, Rob Perez, a crucial node on the NYX social graph on Twitter, because Rob was running a promo where the prize was assigned Jalen Brunson Jersey.

Speaker 8 And when at 1237474849 lowercase A replied to Wobb and included the screenshot of his personal account on a fantasy sports crypto platform as proof,

Speaker 12 there it was.

Speaker 7 In full clarity, for the first time,

Speaker 25 we had traced Freemoose underscore NBA, the account that prophesied that Malik Beasley would be the next player named as part of a federal sports gambling investigation,

Speaker 10 to a government name,

Speaker 33 Mustafa Omar.

Speaker 8 But now

Speaker 41 we needed a face.

Speaker 38 What we then did was we found the same Mustafa Omar account on Facebook and also on Instagram.

Speaker 85 And the latter two, Facebook and Instagram, you see young man, trimmed beard, blue top that happens to be a Carmelo Anthony Nick's jersey.

Speaker 27 How about that?

Speaker 35 One of the DMs that I sent in the past couple weeks, I was trying to get to the bottom of this story and one of the sources sent us a screenshot of a since deleted post from Moose underscore NBA himself, which showed the same exact young man with a trim beard.

Speaker 35 posting a selfie video while trying on a NYX varsity jacket at a store. And the caption says here, NYX jacket, do we like or nah? Only $75 L-O-L.

Speaker 5 But Tom,

Speaker 54 why would someone save a screenshot of a deleted selfie video about a jacket? Should he buy it or not for $75?

Speaker 35 Because a lot of people do not like Moose NBA because of what happened next. This brings us back to the original bio of Moose NBA meme coin expert.
But there was this other thing we found.

Speaker 35 Another Twitter account, which tagged Moose underscore NBA in the bio.

Speaker 48 Look at the header photo.

Speaker 8 This account. The header photo just

Speaker 35 piles of cash.

Speaker 35 Piles and piles. A cartoonish amount of cash just as the banner photo.
So this account is called Moose and Boulder's Picks. And this account sells, you guessed it, sports betting pics.

Speaker 18 Which takes us to a tweet, again, dated Thanksgiving-ish, 2024.

Speaker 28 When this account posted, quote, join the Discord and forever be etched in the most transparent and successful sports betting Discord there is.

Speaker 35 Turns out, Pablo, that at least a couple of people who had been in this sports betting Discord, they were not thrilled with its level of transparency

Speaker 35 or, by the way, how good it was.

Speaker 54 So you're saying they didn't make a huge pile of money like the banner would have

Speaker 62 indicated.

Speaker 28 I mean, in fact, what happens next is that we obtained another screenshot from yet another member of this Discord, which again is basically like a paywalled group chat.

Speaker 26 And this screenshot shows our guy Moose

Speaker 31 also using the Discord to convince people to buy a meme coin that he calls the NCA.

Speaker 61 The NCA stands for National Coin Association.

Speaker 35 According to one screenshot, Moose had tweeted again around Thanksgiving 2024, quote, I had an idea recently to make an NBA-branded crypto coin.

Speaker 35 The idea was to make a Discord community incentivized around the coin, have a nice GC, like group chat, to talk hoops, gambling, and crypto. The coin was dumped out by bots.

Speaker 35 I went down with the ship, this account says, sacrificed $6,700.

Speaker 61 And to all of this, one account replies, quote, it's called a pump and dump, my guy.

Speaker 71 You knew what was going on here. End quote.

Speaker 6 This thing that we're looking at is the sort of business that would theoretically incentivize its owner to prove that he somehow has access to money, to inside information when it comes to sports betting picks, which he's selling on this side hustle thing.

Speaker 23 It would help if you were running such a business to be the guy who was, let's say, ahead on the Jante Porter news, ahead of the Malik Beasley news, and maybe even ahead of both of those things before not just the internet or the media, but again, the Detroit Pistons themselves.

Speaker 35 Right. And so we're trying to follow the money.

Speaker 35 And when you follow that money and you follow that one, two, three, seven, four, seven, four, eight, four, eight, four, nine, a account, and look at the replies, the artist formerly known as Mustafa Omar is repeatedly bragging and sending people the screenshot of Free Moose himself predicting the prophecy, the Malik Beasley news.

Speaker 35 So he's out here in this anonymous account saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't forget about this thing.

Speaker 54 This is insane. You guys understand that?

Speaker 8 It's like... It's so funny.
He, like,

Speaker 8 let me follow.

Speaker 54 Let me think if I can follow the logic here. He's like, hey, you should trust me because I have the inside scoop on what bets are going to hit.
Well, how do you have that?

Speaker 54 Well, because I know they're cheating. The whole point is, oh, I know, not I know because they're fixing it.

Speaker 85 And so, as we're scrolling through these brags, right, this is the reporting process. We're scrolling through these brags: brag, brag, brag, brag, brag, brag, brag.

Speaker 38 I had a question that occurs to me as I'm just seeing this happen over and over again.

Speaker 31 And the question for Tom was: if you were to slide into those DMs, Tom, do you think Mustafa Omar might actually want to talk?

Speaker 92 What's going on?

Speaker 13 Not too much, my man.

Speaker 92 How are we doing on this fine Tuesday?

Speaker 33 Not too bad.

Speaker 13 I'm busy at work. Well, not too bad.
I took a little time off.

Speaker 92 Oh, yeah. What's work for you?

Speaker 13 I am a manager at an auto-collision shop.

Speaker 13 Okay.

Speaker 92 Very cool. And where's that at? In New York somewhere?

Speaker 13 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 92 Okay.

Speaker 92 Well, cool. So thanks for getting back to me.
We're doing like this story on Malik Beasley and your moose stuff came across when we were like going into the story.

Speaker 92 And so finally connecting with you is great.

Speaker 92 And so thank you for picking up.

Speaker 45 I love Tom's just like, what level of bro am I doing here with crypto gambler

Speaker 8 unicorn guy?

Speaker 35 You can hear like my

Speaker 35 throat is getting dry. Like I can't believe this guy is talking.
It's incredible.

Speaker 56 I mean it's just the

Speaker 35 how are you doing on this fine Tuesday?

Speaker 48 Like what are you talking about?

Speaker 28 The most journalistic pride and true method of knocking on the front door.

Speaker 35 So what I find out is that he's in his 20s. He is a Knicks fan.
Not just a Knicks fan. He is a Knicks super fan and he goes to Madison Square Garden and everything.
Yeah, a bunch of things.

Speaker 92 Who would you say is your favorite Knicks player of all time?

Speaker 13 Gotta be Mello.

Speaker 92 Carmelo Anthony?

Speaker 13 He has gotta be Mello.

Speaker 35 But even more than that, when it comes to NBA Twitter, this guy says he's very well connected.

Speaker 23 Mustafa Omar likes finding out stuff, too.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I mean, I go by moose. I know a bunch of people

Speaker 13 involved in the NBA space, so if I ever have any questions, I'm able to eventually get them answered.

Speaker 13 The way that, like, you're a reporter and you go and you ask your questions to everybody and you try to get whatever, I kind of do the same. I just do just good research as well.
I'm a stats guy.

Speaker 13 I was giving out stats and stuff that people wouldn't normally think of.

Speaker 13 My first ever post was a playoff scenario chart, very similar to the one that MVAPR account on Twitter posted, but mine was a day before and then theirs looked identical to mine, which was very funny.

Speaker 13 So everybody kind of called out the fact that the the NBAPR account basically ripped off my scenario chart.

Speaker 13 I started growing my account relatively quickly.

Speaker 13 Got suspended. Not sure why till this day.
Made a second account. That one also got suspended.
And now I'm kind of just off the grid of it because my accounts keep getting suspended.

Speaker 54 Did he ever find out why he was getting suspended?

Speaker 35 Well, he says he doesn't know.

Speaker 13 I wasn't like the most family-friendly account either. I'm sure I said some things that

Speaker 13 people are going to take to liking sometimes. I'm sure that's possible.

Speaker 2 I do like at this point how this guy is kind of all three of us in one person.

Speaker 18 He loves finding stuff out.

Speaker 61 He loves stats.

Speaker 38 He loves talking shit on Twitter unapologetically, like a bean.

Speaker 35 And he is the sort of guy, again, who wants people to know that he knows things.

Speaker 35 including a forthcoming report about Malik Beasley. So on January 30th, 2025, the same day that the federal investigation into Terry Rozier was announced, he tweets that thing out.

Speaker 35 The prophecy of Malik Beasley.

Speaker 13 I mean, I just did it to be a little cryptic. I knew nobody would believe it, but obviously, it's fine.
I just put it out there just to be a little cryptic from when it did come out.

Speaker 13 People could look back at it the way that they did when the news did came out.

Speaker 92 But how did you come across the Malik Beasley info?

Speaker 13 Yeah, I mean, I know a lot of people in the

Speaker 13 basketball and the gambling space. So, you know, word does get around.

Speaker 13 Eventually it gets to me from people that I know.

Speaker 13 Obviously people I'm not going to like to hear a name, but I do have people that do know a lot about

Speaker 13 the gambling ring and NBA and stuff. And I didn't know about Beasley during when he was actually doing it.

Speaker 35 And just to be clear here,

Speaker 35 that's moose talking, right? He's saying Malik Beasley did it. That's not us saying that.

Speaker 13 I found out

Speaker 13 this past January 2025, and obviously now they are suffering having to let him walk in free agency and replace him with somebody like Duncan Robinson, who's not even close to the caliber player that I thought Malik Beasley was this year.

Speaker 8 Damn.

Speaker 8 Whoa.

Speaker 54 Yo, this is one of my favorite things whenever we're doing content, Pablo. In my mind, Duncan Robinson's sitting back.
He's like, oh, a new episode of pablo tour finds out let me watch

Speaker 8 and he hears that's like what the i do why get

Speaker 35 so when i asked mustafa omar uh who told him about malik beasley specifically he kept claiming that this was something he saw on reddit which was kind of strange this is something that was dug up from reddit i mean everything that i found and i tweet about i only tweet about it because i i find it publicly first I know people, I know things, but also I saw this on Reddit.

Speaker 23 Again, of course, we, Medea's family, reunioned this.

Speaker 66 We scanned through everything we could find on Reddit, looking for a hidden Malik Beasley.

Speaker 30 Where is Malik Beasley here?

Speaker 28 We could find nothing resembling this prediction. And of course, by the way, to state the obvious again, if this was publicly noted anywhere,

Speaker 28 then we would have probably heard about it in the way that we heard about this tweet.

Speaker 29 It would have gone viral.

Speaker 37 It would have been surfaced.

Speaker 28 The prophecy would have been someone else's and not Moose's.

Speaker 54 Can I play devil's advocate and say none of us knew Malik Beasley's dad and his mom and his grandfather were all actors?

Speaker 50 Yeah, it's fair point.

Speaker 11 Fair 1% seed of doubt to put into this.

Speaker 35 So then I started asking Mustafa Omar, Moose, about the Jante Porter fan dual betting slip that he posted, which again was placed on January 22nd, 2024, months before the Jante Porter investigation was ever public.

Speaker 35 Now, when I asked him about this, he became cagier than he'd been at any point in our conversation.

Speaker 13 Honestly, I don't know much about the slip. Like I said, it was just sent to me from someone, but

Speaker 35 he said it was sent to him from someone else. It wasn't his betting slip.
He just happened to get it and then post it onto his account. And this is where we should mention.

Speaker 35 Something we have not yet told Moose, which is that deep in our reporting, we found yet another screenshot.

Speaker 35 Yes, another one from Moose's private paywall Discord, where he was trying to drum up business for his next meme coin, the sequel, not just National Coin Association, which he apparently, you know, lost his shirt on.

Speaker 35 The goal this time,

Speaker 35 a quote, over 100 million market cap, end quote.

Speaker 35 And on November 27th, 2024, he wrote explicitly, quote, this next project is going to have people involved that no other project would even be able to get their hands on.

Speaker 35 Some names I can't even legally mention because they made so much money off a certain NBA gambling incident last season and are facing trials.

Speaker 35 But they will be involved in this.

Speaker 8 So hold on.

Speaker 54 At this point in time, November 2024, the only gambling incident known confirmed in the NBA is John Tay Porter.

Speaker 17 Yes.

Speaker 64 In the Jante Porter story, the feds found this deeply sloppy private telegram chat.

Speaker 28 And the most memorable character in Jante Porter's group chats was the owner of a deli, I mean,

Speaker 84 on Roosevelt Island here in our city of New York.

Speaker 29 And this deli owner, who I mentioned at the top of the episode, was not merely a person that John Tay Porter owed, quote, significant gambling debts to, according to federal prosecutors.

Speaker 6 I also remember this deli owner as a New Yorker because he had been previously embroiled in a scandal of a different kind.

Speaker 6 And this is the scandal that involved an unhoused woman who fell into the subway tracks as the F train was approaching.

Speaker 26 And as a result, she lost both of her legs.

Speaker 21 This woman sued, wound up settling with the MTA, which runs the New York City subway, for $4 million.

Speaker 47 The person that she trusted to cash one of her final settlement checks for around $800,000, according to these legal documents, happens to be

Speaker 73 this same deli owner.

Speaker 17 What the f, f, f, f,

Speaker 65 by the name of Amar Awaday.

Speaker 71 And Amar allegedly took that check.

Speaker 31 the city's payback to again a homeless legless wheelchair-bound woman who is also suffering from mental illness He took that check to his friend who was a bank manager, and then

Speaker 61 they got the $800,000 deposited into the account of his deli,

Speaker 61 which Amar denied in court in a case that was eventually dismissed, although he did admit that $80,000 did wind up in his personal account.

Speaker 23 So prosecutors, for the record here, alleged that he spent the woman's money on, quote, gambling trips and wedding expenses, including a bachelor party in Las Vegas and honeymooning in Turks and Caicos.

Speaker 35 This is as dark as it gets, this story.

Speaker 54 I missed the part where we were talking about Larsa Pippen.

Speaker 54 Things were so lighthearted back then.

Speaker 10 What I want our audience to know is that what I started doing at this point was comb through every publicly accessible social media profile we had ever found for our guy, Moose.

Speaker 28 And while looking through the names of the people that Mustafa Omar is friends with on Facebook,

Speaker 73 I found one extremely familiar name.

Speaker 54 Let me guess. Amar Awade.

Speaker 44 F ⁇ ing nail in this pronunciation.

Speaker 33 God damn it. That was good.

Speaker 54 So he's not lying when he says, I'm connected with a guy who's involved in the NBA's gambling incident.

Speaker 23 Yes, a certain NBA gambling incident.

Speaker 31 There, in fact, is a connection.

Speaker 26 We have just verified that.

Speaker 31 They are literal Facebook friends.

Speaker 23 And furthermore, what I did with my life was I naturally plunged further into the Amar Awade rabbit hole.

Speaker 23 And this one brought me to a source that I encountered here in New York City who knew him from back when they were both frequenting these allegedly illegal private poker games in Manhattan around five to eight years ago.

Speaker 15 And my source says that this game that they were playing in actually took place in a private apartment.

Speaker 57 This is how this worked: residential building, top floor, just blocks away from Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 48 Actually, it has since moved, but that's where it was at the time.

Speaker 71 And it's a sort of game where the minimum buy-in is $2,500, aka the monthly allotment for weed according to the trap rules that we encountered before.

Speaker 20 There is no maximum, it turns out.

Speaker 47 And it's otherwise full of lawyers and doctors and hedge fund managers. And also, according to my source, several of the names on those Jante Porter group chats who also wound up getting arrested.

Speaker 76 One of those Porter associates who got arrested was a dealer at this poker game, I am told.

Speaker 29 Another dealer went by the name Bruce.

Speaker 38 And both of those guys, obviously, also got ensnared in this probe.

Speaker 47 And anyhow, when I showed my source to, again, fact check

Speaker 50 this profile, this Facebook profile of Amar Awadeh, what he immediately said

Speaker 65 without any knowledge of any of this episode, I didn't mention Mustafa Omar and how they're friends or anything.

Speaker 5 I showed him this photo and my source just immediately laughs.

Speaker 38 over the phone.

Speaker 26 And he identifies him as, oh yeah,

Speaker 28 I have stories about this guy.

Speaker 31 And what my source told me is that even after Amar was identified as being involved in the Jante Porter investigation, remember, Dante Porter was banned for life from the NBA as of April 2024, Amar was still texting people trying to set up poker games.

Speaker 32 Quote, from my source, I do remember thinking, is he so arrogant that he thinks he's above this?

Speaker 43 End quote.

Speaker 6 This takes us directly back to the phone call that Tom was having with the guy who loves Carmelo Anthony, who is Facebook friends with Amar, who had also just been telling you, Tom, I believe the following about the Jante Porter betting slip screenshot that he tweeted out back in January of 2024.

Speaker 13 Honestly, I don't know much about the slip. Like I said, it was just sent to me from someone, but

Speaker 35 so here I had to do the most important thing in this conversation. I had to ask Moose about his connection to Amar directly.

Speaker 92 Are you friends with or do you know Amar Awade?

Speaker 92 No.

Speaker 92 No?

Speaker 92 No.

Speaker 92 Okay, because I saw that you're Facebook friends with Amar, and so I figured maybe that was somehow you could you were associated with him.

Speaker 92 no

Speaker 8 that's it just no

Speaker 35 like this guy's been super chatty this whole time and when i bring up amar awade

Speaker 35 just one word no

Speaker 35 which brings us back to the facebook profile of amar another photo that you can see on it at the top the banner photo It's a bit blurry.

Speaker 35 It's like someone is taking the photo from way back in the like 300 section and it's kind of zoomed in.

Speaker 35 At the center of this photo is a guy who looks like Amar standing courtside on the baseline at Madison Square Garden.

Speaker 35 And what's important here is that in this moment, this person is also dapping up a tall black dude dressed in all yellow, a yellow sweater with matching yellow shorts wearing a baseball cap.

Speaker 35 The photo was uploaded. You can see it on the Facebook profile.
The photo was uploaded on April 23rd, 2024.

Speaker 35 So this is during the 2024 NBA playoffs. So what do you do? You go to the game logs, you go to basketball reference, schedule, and results.
You click just to see

Speaker 35 if the Knicks were playing anytime around that date on April 23rd, 2024.

Speaker 35 And you can see on that date, in the Knicks schedule, April 22nd, they beat the Philadelphia 76ers in an extremely dramatic game at the garden.

Speaker 79 Hartenstein gets it out to Adanobi. DiVincenzo at three.
Bang!

Speaker 79 Bang!

Speaker 79 Knicks take a one-point lead with 13 seconds remaining.

Speaker 79 The garden is shaking right now.

Speaker 8 What an incredible sequence. Rule of three.

Speaker 91 Rule of three.

Speaker 9 So I just got to jump in here to point out that this game at Madison Square Garden happened five days after Jante Porter got banned for life from the NBA

Speaker 44 Which means that it also happened while the feds were actively investigating Amar Awade who was standing right there courtside for his role in that same historic gambling scandal.

Speaker 46 And now, when you pull multiple angles on this specific play,

Speaker 23 what you can clearly see in retrospect is the identity of the tall black dude in all yellow, the same one Amar Awade is dapping up in his Facebook banner photo after arguably the greatest play in modern Nick's history.

Speaker 5 Because,

Speaker 39 of course, it's Moose's goat, Carmelo Anthony.

Speaker 56 Amazing.

Speaker 8 He looks jubilant.

Speaker 62 He couldn't, it looks like he's the happiest day of his.

Speaker 31 I mean, look, you can really appreciate, by the way, that just the thread count on this yellow sweater in this photograph.

Speaker 26 And even on the broadcast, you can tell this is, I mean, he's looking great.

Speaker 23 All of which reminded us of something. Something we had found pretty early on in our search for any tweet that had tagged Moose underscore NBA.

Speaker 30 We had found an angle of this play, of the three, from the baseline shot off a cell phone, and the video credit was, quote, courtesy, Moose underscore NBA.

Speaker 8 Get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 2 It's right there, right there on the right side of your screen.

Speaker 6 This is the thing

Speaker 32 that hit us literally as we were sitting down to tape today.

Speaker 35 Now let's watch this same play from the Madison Square Garden camera that's looking straight out at the basket. So you can see the full baseline and let's zoom in.

Speaker 29 Enhance.

Speaker 54 Give me a little bit more. Can we get a little bit more of a zoom there? Oh my.
You see that?

Speaker 54 See the guy in blue right there?

Speaker 21 And after countless more hours of Twitter and Facebook searching, we realized something.

Speaker 44 The guy sitting next to Amar Owade, who's pictured holding his cell phone, which I can only assume is the cell phone he used to shoot the video of that Dante DiFincenzo 3,

Speaker 25 had actually identified himself on Twitter by name as the guy who taped it and sent it to Moose underscore NBA.

Speaker 91 And we saw this because Cell Pone Guy, it turns out, was beefing with Barstool Sports, which had aggregated the video without giving either of them credit.

Speaker 21 And by now, as a student of the rule of three, Tom easily recognized Cell Phuy.

Speaker 10 He was a third person we had noticed while combing through various Facebook albums.

Speaker 18 A person better known as Amar's brother,

Speaker 65 Omar

Speaker 27 Awade.

Speaker 65 And even though Moose denied even knowing Amar to Tom, we found more pictures.

Speaker 12 Pictures of all three of these guys.

Speaker 6 Graduations, parties, weddings. We even found a video of Omar wearing a Spreewell jersey going to a Knicks game with Moose.

Speaker 56 who was wearing a Carmelo Anthony jersey that by now, all of us had seen a lot.

Speaker 81 What's up, everybody? It's your boy Omar, the newest member of Spectators.

Speaker 81 On my way to the next game, you see me decked out in the spree well. How to do it to him.
Magic is in town, just smoked him by 30. About to smoke him by another 30.
And I'm on the way.

Speaker 24 Come roll with me.

Speaker 47 At which point, it became clear that Moose underscore NBA, Twitter's Malik Beasley Prophet, was more than just Facebook friends with alleged Jante Porter co-conspirator Amar Awade.

Speaker 6 Moose

Speaker 40 was his relative,

Speaker 25 his cousin.

Speaker 33 Meaning,

Speaker 16 we had literally gone from Medea's family reunion

Speaker 7 to Mustafa's.

Speaker 5 And this is where it takes us back now to the legal documents as we try to connect all the dots here, right?

Speaker 31 So, generally observing the following: in the Jante Porter legal documents, quote, a relative of the defendant, Amar Awade,

Speaker 4 whose identity is known to me, placed a $10,000 parlay bet through betting company one on the under for player one's three-pointers, assists, and steals.

Speaker 31 It goes on to talk about how the relative won $85,000, netting a profit of $75,000.

Speaker 31 And so just saying that

Speaker 47 Amar Awade, in terms of the information he was sharing, who he was bringing into the thing he was already caught up in.

Speaker 74 We don't know which family member it is.

Speaker 85 They're anonymous, according to federal prosecutors.

Speaker 23 But family is literally mentioned in the federal investigation a number of times.

Speaker 35 I had to follow up with Mustafa to make sure he had his story straight on this. So I asked him again.

Speaker 92 You did not get information on Malik Beasley from Amar Awade, who is part of the Porter case.

Speaker 92 I don't know.

Speaker 13 Like I said, I got it off of Reddit.

Speaker 92 Do you have that Reddit form that you you got it from that you could show me?

Speaker 13 I could probably find it.

Speaker 92 Yeah

Speaker 13 Would you be fine with me searching it and then getting it to you on Twitter?

Speaker 92 Yeah, yeah, that'd be great.

Speaker 13 All right, let's do that one

Speaker 54 Despite the preponderance of evidence

Speaker 54 from his own posts and his own brags to having a connection to someone in this, he claims zero knowledge and that he got it from, he got it from Reddit.

Speaker 35 Yeah, he said he got it from Reddit and it was public.

Speaker 35 And after I hung up with Mustafa Omar, who promised me to hit me back on Twitter and send that Reddit post that would clear him of all of this and just say, hey, they had it. It wasn't me.

Speaker 35 What happened next was I logged back into my Twitter account and I DM'd him back a reminder being like, hey, yeah, if you can just grab that Reddit post and send it back to me,

Speaker 35 I got an error message.

Speaker 35 Net error message said message not sent, sending direct message failed. I thought my internet was down or that he turned off his DMs, but nope, nope, guys.

Speaker 35 He had shut down his account.

Speaker 23 At 123747-4849 lowercase A.

Speaker 53 We hardly knew ye.

Speaker 35 And so I was like, you know what? I'm going to check his Facebook profile. And guess what? That too, guys, was taken down seconds after we got off that phone.
All of it gone.

Speaker 10 Unfortunately, for Moose,

Speaker 76 we also love screenshots.

Speaker 5 So, this is the part where we need to just sort of like take a step back, maybe breathe, just think about what it is that we're finding out here today.

Speaker 32 Because

Speaker 10 the timeline has the Jante Porter betting slip, right? This is now what Moose

Speaker 30 had posted.

Speaker 1 That was dated what, Tom?

Speaker 35 The betting slip. If you look at it closely, it says January 22nd, 2024.

Speaker 50 Okay.

Speaker 35 The game one in the Jante Porter case came four days later, January 26th. So that's important here because this actually predates

Speaker 23 that game one, which is to say, I mean, that what we are circling here, what we've been exhaustively reporting here actually is

Speaker 49 ostensibly an expansion of the scope that the Eastern District of New York, the U.S.

Speaker 11 Attorney's Office, had published, which started four days after this.

Speaker 48 But here we have all of these connections to indicate that actually the dude who's ensnared in that thing, Amar, is connected to the dude who posted this thing from four days before that.

Speaker 35 So remember, we have the betting slip January 22nd. We have game one.
of this inquiry with the feds on January 26th.

Speaker 35 Then five days later, we get a flurry of unusual betting activity on Malik Beasley's unders for his two and a half rebounds at a sports book that flagged this to ESPN.

Speaker 35 So we have within less than 10 days, the betting slip, the first John Tay Porter game, and the Malik Beasley game. We have to note the timeline here that this January 31st game is.

Speaker 35 It's not like a random game in terms of the timeline of things. It puts it within basically a week.

Speaker 4 It's all when this stuff was happening.

Speaker 84 In our example, again, of the rule of three, this is how this all was unfolding.

Speaker 61 What we've established in that timeline is that there are some things that are documented and undeniable and confirmed in terms of, yes, connecting, or at the very least, moving the dots close together.

Speaker 78 They're all conspicuously proximate to each other.

Speaker 48 And by the way, we've also been making calls about Malik Beasley.

Speaker 18 Malik Beasley's attorney, Steve Haney, Tom, he didn't send us a statement, right?

Speaker 35 Here's the statement from Steve Haney.

Speaker 35 Presuming someone is guilty when they haven't been charged with the crime, let alone convicted, is a dangerous narrative.

Speaker 35 The mere allegations have caused irreparable harm to Malik's image, reputation, and career.

Speaker 25 The note I want to get to at the end here, by the way, is that when it comes to, so what explains all of this, right?

Speaker 23 Our investigation continues.

Speaker 61 It does.

Speaker 23 It continues because we have reason to believe that these are not coincidences, that these are connections.

Speaker 31 We have reason to believe that when it comes to unusual betting action coming in on an under, Malik Beasley winds up hitting the over pretty hard through his level of hunger and play.

Speaker 78 But you also have Moose

Speaker 11 and Amar and this Facebook friendship and these details and these pictures courtside that

Speaker 23 we should not say what we are tempted to, but we should present in the words of Denzel Washington in two guns. One thing might be important for everybody going forward.

Speaker 81 Tell us about your trip, lawyer.

Speaker 82 What's the big deal? Lawyer. Doesn't the DA know about you and Poppy Lawyer?

Speaker 24 Lawyer, lawyer.

Speaker 9 They know you were at his ranch.

Speaker 83 I know I need a lawyer.

Speaker 65 And on that note, this is where I should probably mention that the lawyer for Amar Awade, who is currently on house arrest, declined comment to PTFO, as did the U.S.

Speaker 18 Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, which is an entity that I now wonder about too.

Speaker 49 Because what I found out today is that our moose hunt has actually expanded the FBI's scope of the Jante Porter scandal, the betting scandal, beyond what the government itself has been able to publicly establish, at least.

Speaker 23 And we have connected it now to the prophecy of the Malik Beasley investigation.

Speaker 9 If not Malik Beasley, noted garbage time god,

Speaker 14 himself.

Speaker 40 But maybe my biggest takeaway here, as we try to square that particular circle, concerns what it really takes to investigate a a scandal like this in the age of legalized sports gambling.

Speaker 88 And legalized sports gambling is obviously everywhere now.

Speaker 14 DraftKings was the sponsor of this show for the first year and a half of our existence.

Speaker 6 They remain the major partner to Metalark Media.

Speaker 67 And to their credit, by the way, they want to catch bad actors.

Speaker 88 They are incentivized to try and flag those suspicious bits of betting activity.

Speaker 40 That's how a lot of this stuff is being caught in real time.

Speaker 32 And yet,

Speaker 40 this age has spawned a wave of conflicting incentives and new vulnerabilities and this general confluence, in the words of Moose's Discord, of hoops, gambling, and crypto.

Speaker 41 Which means that I am left here at the end, presenting my internet-brained, exhausted friends, Tom and Amin,

Speaker 7 with a disturbing truth about ourselves.

Speaker 2 The characters everybody needed to study this entire time.

Speaker 71 We're on the place that we all say we want to leave, but clearly haven't.

Speaker 34 NBA Twitter: The Godfather 3. Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.

Speaker 24 The rule of the Godfather 3.

Speaker 93 This has been Pablo Torre finds out a Metalark media production,

Speaker 44 and I'll talk to you next time.