Michael Beasley

In a recent interview on the podcast hosted by Jeff Teague, the guest was Michael Beasley, who talked about his relationship with Kevin Durant, his childhood friend: "When we met, we were inseparable. He was the first person for whom I took my Xbox out of the house. He was my buddy. My mom used to pick us up from school, his mom would take us. If I didn't have transportation, I took the bus to his house. Even his brother, Tony, we used to hang out together. We grew up like that. If I did something wrong, his mom would scold me, and vice versa. It was never about basketball between us. When I started playing, I was terrible at basketball. I was really bad. He was always the good one. I could only rebound. In every game, he had 30-40 rebounds. Wherever Kevin was, I would get 20 offensive rebounds, put them back in. Just like he plays now, that's how he played since he was 10."

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Former NBA player Michael Beasley made surprising statements about his career and the positions coaches put him in: "Everyone played me at the four in college, but I've been playing out of position my whole career. If you put me at the one, the two, or the three, I'm bigger and better on defense."

The former forward added that if he had the chance to run the pick and roll with teammates like Kyle O'Quinn or Kristaps Porzingis, the outcome would have been very different: "I could have [expletive] the pick and roll game with Kyle O'Quinn and Kristaps Porzingis. But Jeff Hornacek was on the bench, and Porzingis didn't really know how to play good, winning basketball." In a defiant tone, Beasley concluded his comment referring to that period as: "That [expletive] was garbage, man."

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