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Detroit no longer has the ability to sign Beasley for $42MM over three years — that would have required cap room or the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which has since been used on Caris LeVert. But the Pistons do still hold his Non-Bird rights, giving them the ability to offer a 2025/26 salary up to $7.2MM (a 20% raise on last season’s $6MM salary). Few teams – and even fewer playoff contenders – still have the ability to offer more than that amount at this point in the offseason.

drosestruts wrote:Cheap 1-year deal in Milwaukee then re-hit free agency in 2026.

Detroit is limited in what they can offer, and Brooklyn has cap space but seems unlikely.

I think Milwaukee gives him a high-profile spot to showcase himself and build value.

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SkyHook wrote:Watch OKC pick him up.

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SkyHook wrote:Watch OKC pick him up.

Fat chance, they have Joe and they are 1M from the tax.

hugepatsfan wrote:Curious what the process was that brought him under investigation in the first place. At this point, they made a false accusation of him and pretty directly cost him $35M in earnings. I think he's owed some transparency and clarity into the process that brought his name up in the first place for someone that he's now been cleared of.

If there's real reason to investigate someone then you have to do it. But my understanding is that he was investigated because of strange results around prop bets while he was on the Bucks. That's not exactly a concrete thing. Very open ended, and their investigation into it cost him $35M. Definitely sits kind of funny with me.

Malik Beasley is no longer a target of the federal gambling investigation conducted by the Eastern District of New York, his attorneys, Steve Haney and Mike Schachter, told ESPN on Friday, potentially reopening free agency for one of the NBA's top shooters.

Haney and Schachter told ESPN that they had extensive conversations and meetings with the Eastern District of New York and received determination on Beasley not being considered the target after allegations regarding gambling on NBA games and prop bets during the 2023-24 season.

"Months after this investigation commenced, Malik remains uncharged and is not the target of this investigation," Haney told ESPN. "An allegation with no charge, indictment or conviction should never have the catastrophic consequence this has caused Malik. This has literally been the opposite of the presumption of innocence."

A spokesperson for the US. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York declined to comment on the matter Friday.

hugepatsfan wrote:Curious what the process was that brought him under investigation in the first place. At this point, they made a false accusation of him and pretty directly cost him $35M in earnings. I think he's owed some transparency and clarity into the process that brought his name up in the first place for someone that he's now been cleared of.

If there's real reason to investigate someone then you have to do it. But my understanding is that he was investigated because of strange results around prop bets while he was on the Bucks. That's not exactly a concrete thing. Very open ended, and their investigation into it cost him $35M. Definitely sits kind of funny with me.

Scoot McGroot wrote:Maybe it's just me, but I don't think he's been cleared.

Malik Beasley is no longer a target of the federal gambling investigation conducted by the Eastern District of New York, his attorneys, Steve Haney and Mike Schachter, told ESPN on Friday, potentially reopening free agency for one of the NBA's top shooters.

Haney and Schachter told ESPN that they had extensive conversations and meetings with the Eastern District of New York and received determination on Beasley not being considered the target after allegations regarding gambling on NBA games and prop bets during the 2023-24 season.

"Months after this investigation commenced, Malik remains uncharged and is not the target of this investigation," Haney told ESPN. "An allegation with no charge, indictment or conviction should never have the catastrophic consequence this has caused Malik. This has literally been the opposite of the presumption of innocence."

A spokesperson for the US. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York declined to comment on the matter Friday.

It's a statement, only from his own attorneys, and even then it doesn't clearly eliminate the possibility of Beasley ever being charged, or being involved with gambling (that the league would consider worthy of a suspension/ban). Obviously, the attorneys office won't publicly announce that someone won't be charged during an ongoing investigation.


I would imagine that most teams still won't consider signing him this season.

hugepatsfan wrote:Curious what the process was that brought him under investigation in the first place. At this point, they made a false accusation of him and pretty directly cost him $35M in earnings. I think he's owed some transparency and clarity into the process that brought his name up in the first place for someone that he's now been cleared of.

If there's real reason to investigate someone then you have to do it. But my understanding is that he was investigated because of strange results around prop bets while he was on the Bucks. That's not exactly a concrete thing. Very open ended, and their investigation into it cost him $35M. Definitely sits kind of funny with me.