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John Karalis wrote:...where normal stories end, Michael Beasley stories just start to get going.

rendezvousness wrote:beas was probably lit as usual puffin on the chinese magic dragon

PG24 wrote:This guy has to catch a break sooner or later, right?

Here’s what we found out, courtesy of NetEase. During the [Intercontinental Basketball Championship's] last game on Monday, Beasley injured his left wrist in what was likely a fracture… …At first, it seemed as if Beasley wasn’t injured at all. However, NetEase has learned that Beasley has very likely fractured his left wrist. According to on-site reports, Beasley participated in a dunk contest after the game was over. Because the wrist was causing him no pain, he thought he had only a very minor injury and went ahead with the contest, throwing down two dunks. But later that night and in the morning when he woke up, the pain increased and the wrist became increasingly difficult to move. So he went to the hospital to see a doctor. Upon his initial assessment, the doctor judged it a likely fracture.

Unbelievably, that was just the end of Beasley’s China misfortunes. According to the same report, he and Pierce both suffered an asthma attack in Shuangyashan. While playing in Shuangyashan, Heilongjiang province… Pierce and Beasley both suffered asthma attacks due to large amounts of fans smoking cigarettes inside the stadium. After the game, things got even more shocking when Beasley fell to the floor in his hotel and started to roll around in obvious pain, scaring everyone around half-to-death. At that point, there was no choice but to dial 120 (the number for an ambulance in China) and take him to the hospital.

* Thanks to a heads-up from my colleague Michael Lee of the Washington Post, Michael Beasley looked fit and good and injury free in a D.C. charity game on Saturday that also featured John Wall and Kevin Durant, among others.

So that means something must have got lost in the translation with those reports out of China a few weeks back that Beasley might have broken his wrist during a post-game dunk contest while on a barnstorming tour there with Boston's Paul Pierce.

"Something wrong with my wrist?" he told Mr. Lee. "Somebody tell me."

So I guess those reports that Beasley had an asthma attack because of smoke in Chinese arenas was wrong, too. I know at least a couple of you Wolves fans had fun with that on Twitter and elsewhere...

Klomp wrote:

* Thanks to a heads-up from my colleague Michael Lee of the Washington Post, Michael Beasley looked fit and good and injury free in a D.C. charity game on Saturday that also featured John Wall and Kevin Durant, among others.

So that means something must have got lost in the translation with those reports out of China a few weeks back that Beasley might have broken his wrist during a post-game dunk contest while on a barnstorming tour there with Boston's Paul Pierce.

"Something wrong with my wrist?" he told Mr. Lee. "Somebody tell me."

So I guess those reports that Beasley had an asthma attack because of smoke in Chinese arenas was wrong, too. I know at least a couple of you Wolves fans had fun with that on Twitter and elsewhere...

http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/130135253.html

* One little tidbit about Timberwolves new assistant coach Bill Bayno.

As I mentioned in last week's post, he is a recovering alcoholic who also had a kind of obsession-compulsive disorder develop when he was a head coach. He seems to be very up-front about his addiction and past troubles and I hear one of the reasons the Blazers originally hired him in 2005 was to work with Zach Randolph and his issues.

Could there be some intent in helping Michael Beasley blossom despite himself with this hire as well?