Imagine, just for a minute, that you’re Minnesota Timberwolves new signing, Michael Beasley.
Coming off a promising college career, you were the second pick in the 2008 draft behind current All-Star, and gold medal winning point guard Derrick Rose. Good things were anticipated for your career, but after playing for two years as a Miami Heat with one of the best players in the league in Dwyane Wade, you’re treat like a villain because you’re young, like a little weed, and aren’t able to match his numbers.
Then, the Heat are involved in of the most exciting and unprecedented free agency signings ever, picking up Chris Bosh and Lebron James... but you’re traded away to the second worst team in the league for almost nothing because the Heat’s three pronged project that doesn’t involve you.
Michael Beasley has a right to be mad. But taking sly digs at his old team while building his new team up to be something they’re not is not the right response. Interviewed here on the Timberwolves official website, when asked if the Miami Heat were the team to beat, B-Easy told Jonah Fallow that: “Ho ...
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Michael Beasley Feels The Timberwolves, Not The Heat, Are “the Team to Beat”
September 17th, 2010 by Michael Botsford Leave a reply »
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