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2025-26
Malik Beasley
Playing abroad
Unofficial: 985 comments, 4,015 short of the official minimum of 5,000. Among all 223 tracked players he would rank 141st most hated.
Verdict
30.3%55.9%13.8%
30.3%Negative298 comments
55.9%Neutral551 comments
13.8%Positive136 comments
−16Net sentimentpositive minus negative
n=985 comments about Malik BeasleyUnofficial
Receipts
What the room said about Malik Beasley, verbatim: the highest-scoring comments in each class.
Exhibit 01Negative.no flair Exhibit 02Negative.no flair Miama Heat Sign Malik Beasley to a $2.75/game commissary contract, he can only play games on Saturday or Sunday during work release.
Exhibit 03Negative.LAL flair This dude was brought to the lakers after one of his best shooting seasons ever and couldn't hit the whole tenure with us. Fuck Malik Beasley.
Method
A receipt is a top-scoring comment about Malik Beasley that cleared the classifier's confidence bar
and a second pass confirming it is about him. No usernames: the site judges players, not commenters.
Fans
Of what r/NBA says about Malik Beasley, flaired fans 29%, unflaired commenters 32%. Fewer than two fanbases have 200 comments about him, so no fanbase stands out.
29.2%Flaired fansevery flair · 565 comments
31.7%Unflairedno flair · 420 comments
Method
A fanbase is the flair its commenters wear. Flairs with fewer than 200 comments about Malik Beasley are left out of the lists;
the tick is his rate across every flaired comment, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Rooms
Only one room holds enough comments about Malik Beasley to split. On the front page, 647 of his 985 comments, −15 net sentiment against −16 across his season.
Front page66% of his comments29.414.8647
Method
A room is the kind of post a comment sat under: a game thread, the front page, a highlight. A room is drawn when it holds at least 200 comments about Malik Beasley; left out here: News (196), Highlights (58), Post-game threads (40), Game threads (36), Lowlights (4), Daily chat thread (2), Discussion posts (1), Injury posts (1). The bar is the room's share of his comments, its split the room's sentiment. Harshest and warmest are by net sentiment, positive minus negative, from summed counts, never a mean of rates.
Timeline
Over 4-week windows, the negative share of comments about Malik Beasley ran between 13% and 42%. His worst week was the week of Jun 29, 56% negative of 98 comments; his best the week of Jun 22, 22% positive. 33 of 40 weeks had fewer than 30 comments and are left off the line.
Method
Lines are 4-week rolling rates from summed counts (Σ negative ÷ Σ comments), drawn only where the window holds at least 30 comments. Dots are single weeks, sized by n. Bands follow the season calendar.
Games
Malik Beasley went unsigned during a federal gambling investigation, played 17 games for Santurce in Puerto Rico, and pleaded not guilty on July 1.