RexBoyWonder wrote:DrHeat wrote:RexBoyWonder wrote:thx for posting this
Powerful and a must see to anyone who was a Beas fan or still is.
It makes you see him in a different light and better understand why things developed like they did with him here.
Interesting... He definitely had a tough life but so have many other athletes. Too bad he is not willing to take accountability for any of his actions.. When you have the amount of talent he had you are giving multiple opportunities.. It is not possible that everyone did him wrong at every stop
I think he admits some of it is on him, but at the same time it's clear he needed a lot of help outside the court at the early stages of his career and I think there wasn't enough awareness back then about the psychological part of the player, and specifically just how messed up his background was.
To think about it - It's kinda amazing we even picked him considering his background - to no fault of his own. He's the Anti-Heat type player with all his off court issues. Maybe we we'rent as aware of his situation back then, I think nowadays a guy like him is going to considerably drop on draft night.
For Miami to have drafted a player that is completely anti-heat in character we obviously did not have much knowledge of his issues or extent of it. It's only until he started to fail as a player & ruin every opportunity he was given did things start to come out about Beasley. It's funny he's revealing things now that he's totally messed up his career to justify/blame his failures on others. He isn't showing much accountability & seems to blame everybody else around him. Even while the interviewers were offering him solace & support he was disgruntled & defensive. Doesn't sound like a guy wanting help but more of a person that has made decisions for himself & now that he is close to retirement wants to paint the picture that others are to blame & crying for more opportunities. Not once did he address all the stupid sh*t that his done. Even when asked if any of his actions factors into his situation he skated incoherently around the question.
Here's a quote from an ESPN article in 2009 when he was just as sophomore & sent to rehab that exposes his character.
"Being locked down for as long as I was gave me a chance to really get my life organized and get back in touch with myself," Beasley said. "I think over this past year, I've got caught up in the NBA life, as most of us do. I think this gave me the perfect opportunity to just sit down and evaluate my life and get the good separated from the bad."
In a 17-minute session with three reporters, Beasley was asked if has a substance abuse issue. "No, sir," was the response.
He got caught up in the 'NBA life' as he says....that was his choice. Nobody forced him to do dumb sh*t but himself. We all have choices. We have all, at some point, stood on the fork of the road forced to choose which way we want to go on our journey of life. He has had more opportunities than most people would love to have to set themselves & their families up or turn their lives around. He simply messed up every single one of them.
Here's another quote:
"In my worst hour, in my lowest hour, to know that my team and my organization backed me up 100 percent, it gives you comfort," Beasley said. "It gave me confidence in myself that I might have lost and that might not have been there first. It's just making me feel a whole lot better as a player and a person."
In the recent interview he says everybody kept taking things away from him, kept taking the game and opportunities away from him & that he was constantly asking for help. Yet here he is thanking the Heat Organisation for 100% support. Even after we traded him we acquired him again in Big-3s last run. So his narrative that he never received support & that everything was taken away from him doesn't add up. It's complete bullish*t - Miami alone gave him 2 chances. Beasley continues to lay blame on everything/everyone else but himself.
"He understands what he did, that just wasn't the right thing to do," Wade said. "As a young kid, he's only 20 years old. He understands that he's in the limelight like he didn't even know. It's not just Michael Beasley, he has to think about. It's the Miami Heat."
We got the gist Wade did not think much of Beasley. I remember this quote. There were several like it at that time. Beasley was obviously a player who thought of himself before anybody else. This was indicative of everything he did & the trouble he constantly got himself into.
I remember one of his 1st interviews as a rookie he was asked what he wanted to achieve that season. Remember that Miami was 15-67 & last in the NBA the season prior. Rather than saying to help improve the team after such a tough season or something of that manner instead he said he wanted to be an All-Star
This spoke volumes.Remember that infamous pic of Beasley w/ a new tattoo and a bag of weed on the table? He claimed he didn't know what that bag was (we know that's bs) (Same story when he was pulled over for speeding & cops found marijuana in the car he claimed he didn't know who's it was
) Rather than owning up or being responsible instead he acts like a juvenile/immature kid & this was his response to it:Angrily, he posted comments like "Feelin like it's not worth livin!!!!!!! I'm done" and "I feel like the whole world is against me I can't win for losin" on Twitter.
Again lashing out at everybody else rather than any accountability. Do you see the history? He complains about the narrative that everybody created about him - he helped create that narrative w/ his constant stupidity. But again lays blame on others.
This summed up everything at the end of the same article...
Beasley said often last season that he was "just a kid," almost using that as a crutch to justify some less-than-mature situations he found himself in.
Beasley has had a history of blaming the world & irresponsibility from the get go. This has always been his problem & today he's not changed and doing exactly the same sh*t in his latest interview. The kid will never learn. He is now 33.
Here's a quote from Wolves former Prez..
Then-president David Kahn was remarkably candid in his comments on Beasley. In a radio interview with 1500 ESPN Twin Cities, he said of his team's new acquisition:
He's a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana and has told me that he's not smoking anymore. And I told him that I would trust him as long as that was the case. ... The issue is, will they learn from their mistakes? Will they grow from them? In Michael's case, there's no evidence yet to suggest he won't.
I have empathy for his backgroun but I've nvr felt sorry for Beasley. I believe his net worth is 10million at one stage. Some of these players earn enough for 3-4 lifetimes. I don feel sorry for cats who continue to ruin numerous opportunities given to them. Beasley is more fortunate than many people around the world w/ opportunities to earn in the millions which 99% of people on the globe do not achieve. Beasley has had plenty of chances to turn his life around. His continuing immaturity, lack of accountability, heavy blaming was in full display in that interview. He hasn't changed.
https://www.espn.com.au/nba/news/story?id=4503675
I just realized that Cavs own the tie-breaker. This is gonna be tougher than I thought.
