Former Detroit Pistons guard Malik Beasley is no longer the target of an FBI investigation focused on wire fraud, gambling and prop bets, opening a potential path to return to the National Basketball Association, his lawyer told The Detroit News on Friday.

The decision by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York followed a series of meetings between Beasley's lawyers, Steve Haney and Mike Schachter, and comes seven weeks after The News reported Beasley was under investigation .

Beasley, 28, is a free agent since the Pistons pulled back a three-year, $42 million offer after news emerged about the FBI investigation.

"Malik is not charged, not indicted and not a target of the investigation, but he's unemployed because of it," Haney told The News on Friday. "It is flat-out

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