Michael Beasley has dealt with his share of problems during his NBA career. Viewed as a high-ceiling scorer, but volatile; lacking the discipline that was expected from a professional basketball player. The Kansas State product was out of the Miami Heat after two years and starting a stint in Minnesota, one which saw a glimmer of light before his arrest due to possession of marijuana that very offseason.
His next season was marred by a foot injury, consequently signing a three-year deal with the Phoenix Suns — after which he never proved the same.
In a recent press conference, Beasley claims to have been misquoted by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith, who implied on the radio that the New York Knicks forward must be “smoking something” after saying two days earlier that he and three other Knicks are capable of scoring 25 points apiece.
The 28-year-old wasn't fond of Smith's constant attack at his persona, saying his quote was taken out of context, apparently meaning that the players noted could score 25 points at any given night, not in the same night.
“The weed thing has been years removed, Beasley told Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. “My daughter, my oldest child, is now eight. So I made it a conscious effort, or I made it really important to myself to clean my act up because in 2012 I was on FaceTime with her, and she was only four at the time. And it was a bad connection. And she said, ‘Daddy, hold on, it says poor connection.' And that right there, that's a pretty big word for a four or five-year-old to be speaking. So that right there, I made it my duty to clean my act up. Because if she can read ‘connection,' ‘marijuana' is only one more syllable.”
Michael Beasley insists that Smith's act on a chapter of his life he's worked hard to move past has only created problems when it comes to his children.
“You can say whatever you want,” Beasley added about Smith, “but when you say my name and anything negative, A) that continuously paints the wrong perception of who I am as a person and who I am morally. And then B), I had to explain to my daughter what weed was. Is that my fault or was that his?. … I understand you have a job to do. I understand you have money to make and kids to feed, I don't know if he has kids, but I do. And the more you paint me in a negative light, the less money I can make to feed those kids. And then on another step, to take it a step further: I have an eight-year-old, a seven-year-old and a six year-old and a six year-old. And they all read or write. And I have to explain to children, what weed is.”
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