Malik Beasley, a nine-year NBA veteran, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges stemming from a Department of Justice investigation into illegal sports gambling.

Beasley had been negotiating a plea deal with prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and notified the office that he will plead guilty, his attorney, Steve Haney, told The Athletic. Beasley will plead guilty in a Brooklyn federal court on Dec. 9.

Beasley will be the second active NBA player to plead guilty to charges that resulted from a federal investigation into gambling in the NBA. Beasley was indicted in June for participating in a sports gambling scheme that placed wagers based on him manipulating his play so that several bettors could win prop bets on his statistics. He had originally pleaded not guilty.

Jontay Porter was the first NBA player to plead guilty. In July 2024, he admitted to his part in a separate but related gambling scheme. Porter is awaiting sentencing.

Former NBA player Ed Davis was also indicted in the same case as Beasley. Federal prosecutors alleged that he was in charge of the scheme. Beasley and Davis were teammates on the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2020-21 season. Both were charged with four different counts.

Beasley, federal prosecutors say, fell into gambling debt and received a loan from Davis and then got into the gambling scheme as a way to pay it off. They were two of six men indicted. One, William Brown, has already pleaded guilty, while two more, Robert Gorodetsky and Ernesto Plascencia, will also do so, their lawyers have previously confirmed.