July 11: Beasley’s contract is now official, in accordance with NBA.com’s transactions log.
July 6: Free agent guard Malik Beasley is planning to signal a one-year deal value $6MM with the Pistons, in accordance with Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter hyperlink). Beasley spent final season with the Bucks.
Beasley, 27, has averaged 10.9 factors per recreation for his profession and is a talented marksman, taking pictures 38.5% from past the arc in 496 whole common season video games, He was extremely sturdy final 12 months, beginning in 77 of his 79 video games for the Bucks and making a carer-high 41.3% of his three-pointers.
The Pistons’ curiosity in Beasley was reported on Friday evening by HoopsHype’s Michael Scotto. The match between the 2 sides is sensible, as Detroit ranked twenty ninth in made three-pointers and twenty sixth in three-point proportion final 12 months throughout a franchise-worst 14-68 season.
Beasley will be part of Tobias Harris (.368 profession 3PT%) and Tim Hardaway Jr. (.360 profession 3PT%) as a few of Detroit’s key offseason additions who could make an affect from outdoors. Mix these strikes with the actual fact the franchise is bringing in assistant Fred Vinson, identified for his work with gamers from the three-point line, and it’s clear that spacing the ground round younger guard Cade Cunningham was a high precedence this offseason.
Beasley performed for Milwaukee on a minimal contract final 12 months and, after a profitable particular person 12 months wherein he participated within the NBA’s three-point contest, is signing a extra vital deal.
Given the reported phrases of Beasley’s settlement, Detroit may signal him utilizing cap area or the room exception ($8MM). That call figures to return all the way down to what different strikes the Pistons make in free company and/or on the commerce market.
