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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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Heat Nation: Michael Beasley beat Lance Stephenson 1v1 for $100k 😳😳😳😳

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Kyrie Center: Michael Beasley and Kyrie giving each other their flowers after his 1v1 against Lance Stephenson 🤞🏾

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Michael Beasley: When you're in high school, you know you're skipping class if you're dribbling the ball with us. Yeah. You're graduating, going to college—and we're still dribbling the ball. You're having kids and watching them grow up—and we're still dribbling the ball. And then they take away the only life we know. Now we look crazy for still dribbling the ball. Yeah. We don’t know what taxes are. We don’t know what a W-2 is. We’ve never seen a résumé—let alone know what the real world is. Some guys figure it out. Some guys don’t. And the ones that don’t? The world just laughs at us.

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Michael Beasley: One day, I was just riding in the car with him, and (Trevor Ariza) said probably the loudest sentence I’ve ever heard in my life: "Michael Beasley, you're probably one of the smartest guys I ever met in my life, but you're loyal to the dumbest people I’ve ever seen." And I thank him for that—because I literally cut everybody off around me. Like, I don’t even know who he was talking about. But I used that as an example—because we only know to love who we know to love.

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Michael Beasley: And the third—the ultimate thing—is this: it all comes from abandonment issues. Like I told my friend the other day... I saw my family on a sinking ship. I saw them. I saw them let me do things I shouldn’t have. I saw myself acting in ways I shouldn’t have. But I was just scared to get off the boat—because that was the only family I had. It’s like choosing between two evils: Either I cut my family off and end up alone in this world, or I stay and just watch what they do—and die with them. Yeah. And unfortunately... I just chose to die with them.

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Michael Beasley: LeBron over Jordan. One hundred percent. WHY Michael Beasley: Okay, my argument is a reasonable one, right? First, I’ll start with what everybody knows—points, longevity, all of that. With Jordan, they don’t talk about the negatives. They don’t mention the playoff losses. They don’t talk about the fact that he actively sought out Dennis Rodman—who was already a two-time champion. And no disrespect to Jordan, because he’s Jordan, right? But they don’t tell the story of him having to learn the championship pedigree. LeBron James gave us—or has given us—the opportunity to be witnesses. We watched his good. We watched his bad. We watched his ups and downs for so long—and he’s been so great that we don’t have anything to say anymore. So now, we talk about his son, right? That’s my personal argument.

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Michael Beasley: fortunately for Michael Jordan and unfortunately for LeBron James—there wasn’t social media back then. It wasn’t so close to the players. It wasn’t so in your face every day. We only knew what was going on in our block in the ’90s. Now we know what’s going on all over the world. And LeBron’s career began in the social media era. Not unfortunately, because it made him a lot of money—but still, a different kind of pressure. If Jordan played in this same era? Totally different discussion. But it is what it is. I just think LeBron James—for him to have the pressure he had on him from so young... I first heard about him when I was in eighth or ninth grade. I told my mom about him.

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Chris Haynes: @thebig3 News: Michael Beasley — of the expansion Miami 305 team — is upset the franchise drafted Lance Stephenson with the No. 1 overall pick and is contemplating requesting a trade, sources tell me.

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