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Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling

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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#301 » by ComboGuardCity » Wed Sep 3, 2025 8:42 pm

whitehops wrote:i hope he liquidated some assets and didn't just borrow money to pay that back haha.

also - not sure how the US landlord/tenant act works but i'm really surprised they let him move back in unless he got someone to co-sign the lease with him.

Probably put down a huge deposit
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#302 » by 440BB » Thu Sep 4, 2025 7:04 am

Having both Beasley and Robinson is a luxury the Pistons would never have gotten without the investigation. Loads of shooting this year, total flexibility going forward.
I haven't been on the bandwagon to bring Beasley back as he would become a distraction. I've realized the Pistons locker room may be the one place he's welcomed with open arms. Hope it happens.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#303 » by tradez401 » Thu Sep 4, 2025 1:47 pm

man if beasley is back in town and showed his love for the city bring the team favorite back and lets run for the playoffs again in 2026 this time i hope the whole team is healthy and we finally win a playoff series in however long its been.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#304 » by aad » Thu Sep 4, 2025 2:33 pm

If the pistons wanted him back wouldn’t they have signed him by now since the heat have cooled down
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#305 » by Snakebites » Thu Sep 4, 2025 2:54 pm

aad wrote:If the pistons wanted him back wouldn’t they have signed him by now since the heat have cooled down

Things haven’t cooled down yet.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#306 » by Uncle Mxy » Thu Sep 4, 2025 3:11 pm

https://archive.ph/XeMZl
“He did not owe a barber $30,000 for haircuts"

Glad we got that settled! If he was paying that much, he got ripped off.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#307 » by Snakebites » Thu Sep 4, 2025 10:00 pm

I don't interpret the statement from his lawyer particularly positively in terms of the likelihood of Beasley returning.

If his situation was such that we could reasonably bring him back without assuming some unpermissible risk, his lawyer wouldn't need to say anything like that.

I hope I'm wrong.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#308 » by breezypeezy » Fri Sep 5, 2025 8:31 am

I dunno, it sure seems logical that he would establish his pad where he is going to be playing.

I mean if wanted to join the Knick, Cavz, Thunder or elsewhere, it seems unlikely he would set up shop in Detroit while planning to move to another team?

Sure there could be explanations, but if finances for the guy are a mess, securing multiple $40K leases seems unlikely behavior imo.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#309 » by Snakebites » Fri Sep 5, 2025 2:02 pm

breezypeezy wrote:I dunno, it sure seems logical that he would establish his pad where he is going to be playing.

I mean if wanted to join the Knick, Cavz, Thunder or elsewhere, it seems unlikely he would set up shop in Detroit while planning to move to another team?

Sure there could be explanations, but if finances for the guy are a mess, securing multiple $40K leases seems unlikely behavior imo.


You’re forgetting possibility three- that no NBA team can or will be willing to sign him due to reasons related to a still ongoing investigation. The league still wants their own investigation.

It does make it seem unlikely he’ll spurn us for another team. But he might still be blackballed.
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Post#310 » by A_dub06 » Sat Sep 6, 2025 6:29 am

Whilst I don’t think a team will offer Beasley a contract until the league has conducted its investigation, I do believe 100% he will sign with us again when it’s over. The other option don’t make as much sense, and he’s clearly going to sign for as much as possible which we can provide.

Robinsons contract was clearly structured so that should he not produce we can wave him with minimal repercussions or use him as a neutral salary piece in a trade for an upgrade somewhere, so him being on the roster doesn’t really mean anything nor do we “owe” him minutes, so adding Bealsey allows us to play him as much as we want.

The situation sucks and clearly Beasley has issues, but as other have stated without the investigation I don’t think we could’ve turned the trio of Hardaway jnr, Schroeder and Bealsey into Levert, Robinson and Beasley. I for one prefer the trio of Levert, Robinson and Bealsey as I think it’s gives us more shooting and options where imo we should turn Ivey into a heavy minutes off the bench PG allowing us to have more balanced shooting and defence in the starting lineup.
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Post#311 » by zeebneeb » Sat Sep 6, 2025 11:42 am

A_dub06 wrote:Whilst I don’t think a team will offer Beasley a contract until the league has conducted its investigation, I do believe 100% he will sign with us again when it’s over. The other option don’t make as much sense, and he’s clearly going to sign for as much as possible which we can provide.

Robinsons contract was clearly structured so that should he not produce we can wave him with minimal repercussions or use him as a neutral salary piece in a trade for an upgrade somewhere, so him being on the roster doesn’t really mean anything nor do we “owe” him minutes, so adding Bealsey allows us to play him as much as we want.

The situation sucks and clearly Beasley has issues, but as other have stated without the investigation I don’t think we could’ve turned the trio of Hardaway jnr, Schroeder and Bealsey into Levert, Robinson and Beasley. I for one prefer the trio of Levert, Robinson and Bealsey as I think it’s gives us more shooting and options where imo we should turn Ivey into a heavy minutes off the bench PG allowing us to have more balanced shooting and defence in the starting lineup.
Yup. Whats intriguing about it, is that the Pistons will be able to, at times, surround Cade with 3, 40% three point shooters.

Ivey
Beasley
Robinson

Alongside an amazing lob threat;

Cade
Ivey
Beasley
Robinson
Duren

Now that lineup will be used sparingly, but think about the end of game possibilities there. Its crazy. Then you just start tinkering, finding a blend of defense, and offense?

Damn.

Cade
Beasley
Robinson
Ausar
Stewart

Cade
Ivey
Robinson
Holland
Duren

I mean, its crazy, and I'm not even touching the lineup possibilities including LeVert. If Beasley resigns, the Pistons are going to be an insanely deep team.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#312 » by Canadafan » Mon Sep 8, 2025 2:03 pm



Decision soon he says.
Got a feeling its not us though, too bad
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#313 » by A_dub06 » Mon Sep 8, 2025 4:30 pm

Canadafan wrote:

Decision soon he says.
Got a feeling its not us though, too bad


The only part that makes me doubt it’s us is that he’s not wearing pistons gear in the picture. But I still think it is. Highly skeptical of him leaving millions on the table to play for a contender, his post makes no mention of winning and only “being better than last year”.
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Post#314 » by the_l_train » Mon Sep 8, 2025 4:37 pm

Yeah seems like if this is truly his decision, it would be us. Can't we pay him the most? That alone should make his decision.

He begged Trajan not to trade him at the deadline and said this was the most fun basketball situation he has ever been a part of….we were also 24 hours away from giving him a major bag, and he can't blame us for having to go to plan B given the weirdness.

Holding my breath that he makes the right decision this time.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#315 » by zeebneeb » Mon Sep 8, 2025 5:46 pm

the_l_train wrote:Yeah seems like if this is truly his decision, it would be us. Can't we pay him the most? That alone should make his decision.

He begged Trajan not to trade him at the deadline and said this was the most fun basketball situation he has ever been a part of….we were also 24 hours away from giving him a major bag, and he can't blame us for having to go to plan B given the weirdness.

Holding my breath that he makes the right decision this time.
You know what I find hilarious about this Beasley situation? I have a seen a bunch of articles, especially around the Knicks, wondering if he'll take less, to "play for a contender." Is this the same Knicks team(with a worse, treadmill coach now)that the Pistons, with zero playoff experience should have beaten last year if not for injuries and a horrible non-call? If the Knicks are considered a contender, then so should the Pistons, flat out, period.

If Beasley does indeed resign with Detroit, the only loss of any significance is going to be Schroder, but with Ivey coming back, that's not a problem, and Robinson is a better player than THJ, not to mention LeVert.

Cade/LeVert
Ivey/Beasley
Ausar/Robinson
Harris/Holland
Duren/Stewart

That is a legitimate 10 man deep squad, filled with real deal, bona-fide NBA players.

If Beasley signs elsewhere, its either Langdon has decided to move on, or he takes a bag from a bad team, none of which have signaled they are interested.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#316 » by whitehops » Mon Sep 8, 2025 6:17 pm

the_l_train wrote:Yeah seems like if this is truly his decision, it would be us. Can't we pay him the most? That alone should make his decision.

He begged Trajan not to trade him at the deadline and said this was the most fun basketball situation he has ever been a part of….we were also 24 hours away from giving him a major bag, and he can't blame us for having to go to plan B given the weirdness.

Holding my breath that he makes the right decision this time.

i forget the list of teams but there's like 5-6 that can offer more. brooklyn still has cap space more than we can pay beasley and there's like 5ish teams that have their full non-taxpayer MLE (~$14M) that they can offer.

money aside, i think the biggest detractor for him re-signing with us at this point is how many minutes he'll get and what his role will be. we'd have to stretch to a 10-man rotation and beasley's role with duncan being a movement shooter definitely takes away from what beasley did so well for us last season.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#317 » by thesack12 » Mon Sep 8, 2025 10:19 pm

Has anybody seen anything reliable saying Detroit has even offered Beasley a contract, or any team for that matter?
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Post#318 » by zeebneeb » Mon Sep 8, 2025 11:38 pm

thesack12 wrote:Has anybody seen anything reliable saying Detroit has even offered Beasley a contract, or any team for that matter?
Its been radio silence for about 2 weeks now. I'm assuming it gets done before training camp starts, which is around September 20-27th if memory serves, so something has to give relatively soon.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#319 » by Snakebites » Tue Sep 9, 2025 12:32 am

thesack12 wrote:Has anybody seen anything reliable saying Detroit has even offered Beasley a contract, or any team for that matter?

None.

Only teams that have "checked in" on him, us included.

Playing time absolutely is a potential factor. It is worth noting he got more PT with us than he was likely initially slated to even last season due to the Ivey injury.

Unclear who's in the mix who might offer more of a role, and to my knowledge no teams that have been reported to be interested in him can offer more money than us. That doesn't eliminate the possibility that he signs with a team that hasn't yet been reported on, of course.
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Re: Malik Beasley: Allegations of Gambling 

Post#320 » by thesack12 » Tue Sep 9, 2025 1:33 am

Snakebites wrote:
thesack12 wrote:Has anybody seen anything reliable saying Detroit has even offered Beasley a contract, or any team for that matter?

None.

Only teams that have "checked in" on him, us included.

Playing time absolutely is a potential factor. It is worth noting he got more PT with us than he was likely initially slated to even last season due to the Ivey injury.

Unclear who's in the mix who might offer more of a role, and to my knowledge no teams that have been reported to be interested in him can offer more money than us. That doesn't eliminate the possibility that he signs with a team that hasn't yet been reported on, of course.


Yeah, that's my point.

Beasley saying "My decision is near" could mean any number of things, including being a nothing burger or click bait.

That said, there not being any reports of contract offers, doesn't mean Malik hasn't received any. Still, with the current public knowledge, it would seem like the control of Beasley's NBA future is still out of his hands.

In the event that the NBA gives the all clear for teams to consider signing Beasley, we really don't know where Detroit's interest level currently sits.

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