Snapshot
- Team / role: New Orleans Pelicans reserve small forward / small-ball power forward and likely closing candidate in offense-first lineups.
- 2025-26 baseline: 72 games, 31.2 MPG, 17.7 PTS, 5.6 REB, 2.5 AST, 0.9 STL, 0.1 BLK and 2.1 threes on .451 FG and .841 FT. NBA team statistics, accessed 2026-07-18
- Market anchor: ESPN's April 14 points-league board reportedly ranked him 65th, but that snapshot predated a fully healthy Murray/Zion rotation. ESPN way-too-early points rankings, 2026-04-14
2026-27 projection
| GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 | 27 | .450 | .840 | 1.7 | 15.2 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Correction 2026-07-18 Raised from 68 GP × 25 MPG / 14.3 PTS. Bey became extension-eligible on 2026-07-11 and HoopsHype's Michael Scotto reported mutual interest between New Orleans and Bey in a veteran extension starting at 140% of the estimated average salary — roughly $21M in year one, framed as about four years and $93M, with a $65-75M compromise floated. A team negotiating that number is not planning a 25-minute bench role, so the minutes band moves up rather than down. The 3PM line is held at 1.7 rather than scaled up, because the added minutes arrive under a coach whose Orlando teams ranked 25th or worse in three-point attempt frequency for five straight seasons. Sources: Hoops Rumors, 2026-06 · Sports Illustrated on Mosley.
Fantasy translation
- Nine-category: 105-145; useful threes, points and FT% with low turnovers, but limited defensive stats cap the ceiling.
- Points: 110-150; stable bench scoring is helpful, though his 2025-26 volume should not be priced in.
- Dynasty: 130-180; a useful prime-age role player without a clear path to star usage.
Role, floor and ceiling
Bey projects for 25 minutes behind Trey Murphy III and Zion Williamson, with extra run at both forward spots. Floor: 20 minutes and 11 points if Mosley leans defense and Derik Queen absorbs power-forward minutes. Ceiling: 30 minutes and 17/6/2 if injuries or a Murphy trade recreate his 2025-26 opportunity.
Injury and transaction monitor
Bey played 72 games in 2025-26 and remains part of the 14-player standard roster. Official roster, accessed 2026-07-18 The principal risk at this cut is minutes compression rather than a verified carryover injury.
Extension window. Bey became extension-eligible on 2026-07-11. Scotto reported mutual interest; the reported structure starts near $21M (140% of the estimated average salary), which projects to roughly four years and $93M, with a $65-75M compromise floated. This is the single most informative unresolved item on his profile: a signed deal near the top of that range confirms a starter-adjacent role and validates the 27-minute projection, while a summer that closes without one is evidence for the compression case. Hoops Rumors, 2026-06
Career record
Pre-NBA: Villanova, two seasons (2018-19, 2019-20). As a freshman he started 36 games at 29.6 MPG for 8.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.3 assists on .458/.374/.644, earning Big East All-Freshman honors. The sophomore year was the leap: 31 games, 33.9 MPG, 16.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.4 assists on .477/.451/.769, which brought first-team All-Big East, the Julius Erving Award as the nation's top small forward and AP honorable-mention All-America. The .451 from three on high volume is the number that made him a lottery-adjacent prospect. Draft: 2020, first round, 19th overall by Brooklyn, traded on draft night to Detroit as part of a multi-team deal.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-21 | 21 | DET | 70 | 27.3 | 12.2 | 4.5 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.5 | .404 | .844 | 0.9 |
| 2021-22 | 22 | DET | 82 | 33.0 | 16.1 | 5.4 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.6 | .396 | .827 | 1.2 |
| 2022-23 | 23 | DET/ATL | 77 | 27.6 | 13.8 | 4.7 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.0 | .422 | .861 | 0.9 |
| 2023-24 | 24 | ATL | 63 | 32.7 | 13.7 | 6.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.8 | .416 | .837 | 0.9 |
| 2024-25 | 25 | WAS | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025-26 | 26 | NOP | 72 | 31.2 | 17.7 | 5.6 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.1 | .451 | .841 | 0.9 |
| Career | 364 | 30.4 | 14.8 | 5.3 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.2 | .418 | .842 | 1.0 |
The 2022-23 row is a combined line: 52 games in Detroit at 28.8 MPG for 14.8 points on .404, then 25 games in Atlanta after the February 2023 four-team trade at 25.2 MPG for 11.6 points on .470. The efficiency jump on the smaller sample came with a lower-usage catch-and-shoot role. The 2024-25 row is a genuine zero — he did not appear in an NBA game that season.
Fantasy history: Not verifiable at the precision this template asks for. Bey entered 2025-26 outside consensus top-180 in nine-cat drafts (roughly 183rd overall, 29th among forwards) and finished the season as one of the most-added waiver pieces in the format, so the realized value was far above the draft price — but published season-end nine-cat ranks for 2025-26 were not findable, and earlier seasons are equally unverified here. Directionally his shape has always been better in points leagues than category leagues: strong scoring, threes and free-throw percentage with genuinely low turnovers, but a steal rate that never cleared 1.0 and blocks near zero, which caps category-league value regardless of scoring. The 2025-26 field-goal percentage of .451 was the first season his FG% was not an active liability.
Durability: 70, 82, 77, 63, 0, 72 games. The first three seasons were nearly iron-man — 82 in 2021-22 and no meaningful absence pattern. The break point is a torn left ACL suffered in March 2024 (reported March 10-11) that ended his Atlanta season at 63 games. Washington signed him that July on a three-year, $20M deal knowing he was mid-rehab, and he missed all of 2024-25 recovering. He was cleared for opening night 2025-26 and played 72 games, which is the single most important line in this section: the knee held for a full season at 31 minutes a night, roughly 19 months post-surgery.
Trajectory: Bey's pre-injury career was a flat one — three seasons of 12-16 points on sub-.425 shooting, a high-volume low-efficiency wing whose rebounding (6.5 in 2023-24) was the only trend genuinely improving. The 2025-26 season is the real outlier and it needs care: 17.7 points on .451 at age 26 is a career high in both, and the second-half split (19.9 points on .458 over his final 38 games) says it was not a hot-start mirage. But it arrived on a New Orleans roster missing Zion and shuffling through injury, at 31.2 minutes — his second-highest ever. The honest read is that the shot-diet change is real (fewer contested pull-ups, more rim and corner) while the volume is circumstantial. He is now 27 and squarely in his prime, past the ACL and with the durability question answered rather than open. For 2026-27 the risk is not the knee, it is that a healthy Murphy/Zion/Queen frontcourt reclaims the minutes that produced the counting stats; the efficiency gain should travel, the 17.7 points should not.
Career sources: ESPN career stats, StatMuse season-by-season, Wikipedia — college, draft, transactions, NBC Sports — 2025-26 waiver-wire value
Open questions
- Is Bey the regular sixth/seventh man or primarily a matchup forward?
- Does he close over Jones when New Orleans needs shooting?
- Would a Murphy trade restore a 30-minute role?
- Does the extension get signed before opening night, and at what first-year number? The gap between $21M and a $65-75M total compromise is also a gap in implied role.
- How much of his 2.1 threes per game survives Mosley's attempt-rate suppression?