The common denominator in the NBA's recent string of gambling scandals has been the types of bets involved. Jontay Porter was banned from the NBA for life for manipulating prop bets, which are bets based on his individual statistics. Terry Rozier is currently being investigated for the similar infractions. Like Porter, Rozier has been accused of removing himself from a game early in order to help pre-informed bettors win "under" bets on his individual numbers. The offseason investigation into Malik Beasley was raised in part because of suspicious betting activity around his statistics in a Jan. 2024 game, though he wound up hitting the over on the affected number (rebounds). That investigation did not find wrongdoing, but it did not definitively clear him either.

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