{"id":98151,"date":"2025-08-26T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:25:15","slug":"landing-spots-for-nba-free-agent-malik-beasley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98151\/","title":{"rendered":"Landing Spots for NBA Free Agent Malik Beasley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Brooklyn Nets are here primarily because they&#8217;re the one team with the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capsheets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">cap space<\/a> necessary to blow that $7.2 million Detroit can offer out of the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It doesn&#8217;t seem likely that Brooklyn would get this high for Beasley, but it has just over $20 million in space to play with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">And in an Eastern Conference that could be laughably bad in 2025-26 (thanks in large part to torn Achilles tendons for Tyrese Haliburton and Jayson Tatum), lineups with Beasley, Michael Porter Jr., Terance Mann and Nic Claxton could be, at the very least, fascinating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">But even that is probably better than the Nets should want to be. They control their first-round pick in 2026, so adding helpful veterans shouldn&#8217;t be a top priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This season needs to be about the development of the host of incoming rookies, including Egor Demin, Nolan Traore and Ben Saraf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets are here primarily because they&#8217;re the one team with the cap space necessary to blow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-98151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}