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Michael Cooper: If you had this to do all over again, your career, I mean, and again, you said you were distracted from a lot of things, what would you have eliminated in order to make a better career? Michael Beasley: ‘If I did it all over again, I would have listened to Pat Riley. Pat Riley told me to get a condo, get two bedrooms, one for my mom when she come in town… I went the polar opposite… I got a six-bedroom house, got three dogs, had three, four of my friends staying in… and then from it, that's where all the problems came from. I was bailing people out of jail… my uncle was fighting a RICO… my godfather got nine, ten years… So to me, I was really dealing with problems.

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Michael Beasley opened up on what he’d change about his career: “If I could do it all over again, I would have just listened to Pat Riley. Pat told me to get a condo for me and my mom. I got a 6-bedroom house, dogs, homies staying in… that’s where the problems came from.”

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Michael Beasley: I used to think tomorrow never comes, right? And it does. It doesn’t, right? Like you never woke up and it was tomorrow. So with that mindset, I’m just not in a rush to get there anymore. I just wish people would understand that you are everything you need, and you have everything you need to walk into tomorrow confident. Whether you think you do or not, God’s got you. And God’s not gonna really bless you until you understand that part. We all think, “God’s got us. I’mma pray. Yeah, I know, I know.” And then you end up not with this, can’t pay that, and you ain’t got nothing but God. And then it’s like, bro, you got to really figure it out. A week goes past, and you say, “God, I figured it out.” Then a year goes past, “God, I figured it out.” And He’s looking at you like, bro—He won’t say a word. He won’t say a word until you’re really ready. And when you’re ready, you stop rushing. I think—I’m not saying I’m ready—but I think I’m becoming ready. I think I’m understanding.

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Fullcourtpress: Michael Beasley calls out Carmelo Anthony 👀 “He copped the *uck out and said I wanna, I wanna, I wanna… we can really do it— no cop outs, throw the *ucking money up.”

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Nonetheless, Anthony has nothing but respect for what Beasley is doing in the one on one space and commends him for the job he's been doing exploring this side of the sport. “He really wanna play. He love to play and he love the game. And I think now, you start to see him get thar attention and the respect that he deserves,” Anthony said on the latest episode of his podcast, 7PM in Brooklyn presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment. “I think now having the opportunity, get back out there on the court, showcase to a newer generation a newer game when it come to 1v1, he is that guy.” “I would put my own money up on Beas against people … Beas is one of the most talented players to ever play our game.”

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Michael Beasley: My stomach was crying, and tomorrow still came. I was hungry by myself—and tomorrow still came. I don’t like you. I don’t need to like you. I like me. I like me. Because I was there for me. Every… day. Every… dribble. Every DM. And that’s why I don’t like y’all saying my name now—because when I was there, I was in all of y’all’s DMs. All of you. That hurt. But tomorrow came. And I couldn’t let the sun beat me. That’s the part of the narrative I hate—people think I don’t work. People think I’m just cool because I’m light-skinned. Because I got green eyes. But y’all don’t see me. They put a mirror in the jungle—and when the gorilla saw itself, it went crazy. A tiger doesn’t care about his stripes. People think I’m confident. I’m scared just like y’all. I just never told anybody. I’m afraid. I just always been too scared to say it.

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Michael Beasley: During all that time, that period, I kept hooping. Why? Because the right answer never cared who said it. So while every day y’all were sitting there telling me I’m the wrong answer, I was telling the kids—look, it’s a thing in my gym. I tell these kids all the time: 'Y’all don’t think I got humility?' I tell them, 'Yo, you want to be Michael Beasley or Kevin Durant?' You understand? They get that. I tell my kids: 'I’m known as one of the best basketball players ever. Do you want to be that—without a job—or do you want to be kicking dudes in the balls and making $40 million a year?' So yeah, I kept hooping. Why? Somebody gonna dribble the ball, right? It’s gonna dribble. The sun’s gonna come up. So… why not me?"

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What made me turn the corner after that period we were talking about? Michael Beasley: When I found out my family was stealing from me. And they weren’t stealing from me intentionally—they were just spending more money than I was making. And my CPA? He stole from me. Straight up… messed me over. I was in the NBA—being completely taken advantage of. I think it was my fourth or fifth year in the league. Maybe my sixth year—yeah, when I was with Houston. Actually, my third year in the league is when it started. My CPA stole all my money. Every last dollar."

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Michael Beasley reflects on his time with the Miami HEAT: “If I were to ask for grace for my maturation process, I’d give [Erik Spoelstra] his. Me and Spo were both rookies. Just as much as I was scared of Riles and the front office, he was too. The more opportunities I wanted was in fear of trying to change the program.” “I wish I could’ve won a championship… bro, Boris Diaw beat us.” (via @thebig3 )

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Michael Beasley challenges Nick Young for a Million dollars. After Nick Young told him he just started beating guys last in the Big3.

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Shams Charania: Statement from NBA spokesman Mike Bass: “We are cooperating with the federal prosecutors’ investigation.”

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Carmelo Anthony on potentially playing one-on-one vs. Michael Beasley: I'm not losing a one-on-one game, bro. I'm not. I've never I've never lost a one-on-one game. I'm not saying I'm going out there playing. What I'm saying is I got ridiculed for doing this sh*t at the highest level for beating somebody on a one-on-one. So, I'm not going out there and playing no one. I want to sit there and support a player like Beasley for the culture, of course, and put my money on a player like Beasley because I know there's not too many players who can play with Beas on the one.

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While LeBron James is considered one of the greatest players of all time, he hasn't received his flowers as a one-on-one player. On this note, former NBA player Michael Beasley recently claimed to have beaten the Lakers forward in a 1v1 game. He even claimed to have blown him out while on a livestream, joining popular streamer Adin Ross. Ross: "Did you beat LeBron in a 1v1?" Beasley: "Yeah. I mean, the story is told wrong."

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Michael Beasley can officially claim his supremacy in a one-on-one setting. The former 11-year pro defeated fellow NBA alum Lance Stephenson 31-21 in a 1-vs-1 matchup at TNC 02. Beasley took home the $100,000 prize with the win. The matchup was the main card of the event, with multiple other smaller matchups also occurring. Beasley was a first-round pick in 2008 and spent time with the Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks in his career. He last played in the 2018-19 season and averaged 12.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists in his career.

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