Malik Beasley remains out of the NBA.
A gambling investigation, which is still ongoing, scuttled the Detroit Pistons’ plans to re-sign Beasley, who had a historic 2024-25 season with the franchise, last offseason. He was set to agree to a three-year, $42 million contract with the Pistons before news broke late last June.
The Pistons still have Beasley’s non-Bird rights and can sign him to contract starting at $7.2 million following the conclusion of the investigation.
In May, Pistons president of basketball operations Trajan Langdon said the investigation was still ongoing and they hadn’t been in touch with Beasley about a reunion.
On Thursday, June 18, in his predraft press conference in midtown, Langdon said nothing has changed. He clarified he hasn’t spoken with Beasley. Langdon also said Beasley doesn’t currently have an agent.
“I have not talked to him about coming back,” Langdon said.
Beasley, now 29, averaged 16.3 points per game in 2024-25. He became one of five players in league history to make 300 3-pointers in a season and finished second in Sixth Man of the Year voting.
The Pistons pivoted last summer and executed a sign-and-trade for Duncan Robinson to fill the void left by Beasley.
Robinson, 32, averaged 12.1 points and 2.2 assists in 2025-26, and shot 41% from 3 in the regular season, while appearing and starting in 77 games. He’s set to make $16 million in 2026-27, with only $2 million guaranteed. Unless he’s included in a trade, the Pistons likely will keep him rather than waive him to create cap space. He has $15.2 million nonguaranteed in 2027-28.
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