There was a lot of emotion in that …

There was a lot of emotion in that moment for Beasley and his family. For four years with the Nuggets, Malik had tried to earn major minutes. Despite his best efforts, he couldn’t get the role he wanted. “I said, ‘Are you getting traded?’ He said, ‘Yeah, Mama,’ ” Deena Beasley recalled recently. “I said, ‘Stop right here. Take these pictures. These are the last damn pictures you’re going to take in Denver, so you make them good pictures.”