Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley returned from his 12-game NBA suspension Saturday not yet the player he was a month ago, but what he called an improved man.
He started, played nearly 30 minutes, shot 4-for-17 from the field — including 3-for-12 on threes — and scored 13 points, all but two of them in the second half.
He did so in a 129-107 loss to Houston at Target Center that he said, speaking only for himself, left him "embarrassed" by a loss to an opponent that had lost 22 of its past 23 games before a trading deadline makeover.