Five days after that call, law-enforcement officials arrested Malone in his four-bedroom house and found nearly a kilo of cocaine and 84 grams of heroin hidden in a small ottoman in his basement. His play surged. If you have any unfortunate news that this page should be update with, please let us know using this form . The families he destroyed? “He was the godfather of D.C. basketball,” says Gwynn Park (Md.) Says his stepdaughter, Sydney Smith, “It’s like the most dysfunctional Robin Hood story ever.”, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Gripkey and law-enforcement- officials dismiss this notion. “Cocaine buys cars, and heroin buys houses,” says Abdalla, repeating a law-enforcement- aphorism he learned during his 28 years investigating narcotics. Malone believes that if he had continued to advise him, Beasley would be on target to make $300 million. Assault, he discovered a 6-foot-8 high school freshman with a guard’s shooting touch at the Watts playground in Northeast D.C. Recognizing DerMarr Johnson’s potential, Malone bought him Air Jordan sneakers, Timberlands and a leather jacket. “I think everyone was shocked,” says Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski of Malone’s drug-dealing career. During a phone conversation from a D.C. jail with a friend, the friend handed the phone to a Jaspers bartender. Before meeting Malone, Johnson wasn’t even eligible to compete in high school basketball for academic reasons; Malone not only helped him study but also guided him through four schools in five years, using Johnson’s case as a blueprint for his future mentees. “Absolutely!”, Malone downplays his trafficking, saying it was a side job he dabbled in when he needed cash. On May 28, Curtis Malone’s friends and family shoehorned into the four rows of wooden benches in U.S. District Courtroom 23 in Washington, D.C. “How would you know that? Many close to Malone still view him as a benevolent mentor who sold drugs only to pay rent for needy players’ families or to help out downtrodden friends from his childhood. Malone … “What you don’t know, you can’t tell.”. All the stuff that I have been through, he’s been there for me.”, Is Malone a patient mentor who raised Beasley as a son and guided him through six high schools in five states? “The bottles of Bacardi are not being touched,” she told Malone. Bieber led the MLB in wins, strikeouts and ERA in 2020. Michael Beasley played in just four playoff games for the Heat this year, a garbage-time reminder that he’s hanging on in the NBA despite himself. The staff at Jaspers knew him well. He controlled so much talent that coaches recruited his players, hired his coaches and overlooked his past indiscretions. Assault program” and money “in exchange for [Malone] at least attempting to manipulate prospects like -Beasley” into signing with Bell. Former Villanova forward Dante Cunningham, Georgetown guard Austin Freeman and Nolan Smith, who would be picked by the Blazers in the first round, all signed with Bell between 2009 and ’11. He was offered the job on the spot, and he accepted. Says Skeeters, “[Malone] said he told Seth Greenberg, ‘You can get whatever you want, whatever you need from our program.’” Two days later Skeeters flew to Blacksburg to interview with Greenberg. Court documents show that by 2013, Malone had an established cocaine operation and appeared to be setting up a steady heroin operation. Beasley played for Assault and settled into the basketball-centric family. This story originally appeared in the Aug. 25 issue of Sports Illustrated. “He invested in [Beasley],” says Dalonte Hill, who coached Beasley for Assault and later at Kansas State. DEA officials say the financial portion of the investigation is ongoing. Still, Bell and Malone made an unlikely pair, the B-list agent and the street-smart youth coach with a crack conviction. To get access to Malone’s players, a college would often have to hire Assault coaches, and this just extended Malone’s power and reach. With Johnson and Bogans rated by some scouting services as the country’s top two players, Adidas executive Sonny Vaccaro signed Malone and D.C. Among the two dozen supporters were a former NBA lottery pick and the man who was the highest-paid assistant in college basketball. We rely on readers like you to uphold a free press. Martin, now with South Carolina, says he knew of an arrangement between Malone and Bell. She told Malone that she could no longer handle him. Malone did not coddle them; he sent Johnson for his final year of high school to MaineCentral Institute in a rural part of the state against Johnson’s wishes. Judge Huvelle sentenced Malone to 100 months in jail. Beneath the vaulted ceiling of Courtroom 23, Malone’s drug and basketball empires both officially crumbled. The connection with Malone and Beasley helped Bell sign center DeAndre Jordan, now with the Clippers, in ’08. Malone couldn’t actually coach the teams anymore; the AAU has since instituted a policy preventing people with criminal records from coaching, so Malone became a GM. D.C. “He used those kids. “I know a lot of kids whom he’s really, really helped," says Jones. Some wore tailored suits, others baggy warmup pants and lime-green Under Armour sneakers. Which makes the story that much sadder.”, The rolling HILLS of central Pennsylvania, Curtis Malone’s home for the next 99 months, are more reminiscent of Salzburg than of Shawshank. Johnson had been living with his sister, but in 1996 he moved in with Malone. The Hawks chose the 6-9 Johnson with the sixth pick, and he gave Malone a Mercedes, paid him an allowance of $6,500 per month and, over his first few years in the league, donated $15,000 per year to D.C. In one [sense] he’s helping young men. “You can call it dirty business,” says longtime Maryland high school coach Bob Wagner, “or you can call it capitalism.”. Beasley says that Malone arranged for him to be represented by Joel Bell, a mid-level agent in the D.C. area whose two sons played for Assault. But some weren’t shocked. You can subscribe to the magazine here. Stay safe, and remember God is good. He still speaks as if he’s running Assault, which is now called D.C. Premier and is overseen by Damon Handon and Mike Sumner, two of Malone’s former aides. “I know what he is,” Williams, who declined to comment for this story, told The Washington Post in 2009. At 22, four years out of high school and living at home, he joined the drug game. Court documents and recordings from police wiretaps reveal two illicit -- and booming -- operations: a large cocaine and heroin ring that law enforcement officials estimate generated $80,000 per month in profits, and an AAU program that operated through favors, threats and backroom deals. True, he had a $500,000 Under Armour contract, but he says that $300,000 of that went for equipment and the rest for expenses. Assault. Bell sued, and Beasley filed the counter-suit, naming Malone as a third party. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. He brags of making $5,000 to $10,000 a day selling crack in the early 1990s but says he only trafficked drugs in recent years as “a way of taking care of Curtis.” What about the $80,000 monthly profit that law-enforcement- officials estimates he made? They came to show allegiance to a man they knew as a loyal son, caring stepfather, tough-love coach and basketball power broker. After Hill moved to Kansas State, Beasley changed his commitment and headed there too. A few months before Johnson was drafted, The Washington Post ran a story that referred to Malone’s 1991 felony conviction for dealing crack cocaine and a ’93 guilty plea for eluding police in a late-night car chase. "I lived with Curt for a year and I had no idea what was going on," Cook said in the documentary. And Johnson did plenty for Malone. Community Center, which he ran with four friends.

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