Beasley Injured During His First Practice With The Heat

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Michael Beasley might have to toughen up ...
Published 7/2/2008 by DAULERIO at Deadspin
Michael Beasley might have to toughen up a little bit. [Yahoo!]

Beasley’s Miami Heat Career Off To A Painful Start
Published 7/3/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
This is just typical for the Miami Heat - their first-round NBA Draft pick gets hurt in his first team practice . Michael Beasley NBA Draft smile The AP reports that Michael Beasley was only 45 minutes into his first drills as a member of the Heat, when the #2 overall pick was struck in the chest by an inadvertent elbow. Beasley was taken to a doctor for observation and did not return to practice. Just what new Heat coach Erik Spoelstra neeeded. Although the team didn’t officially release any statements on the status of their star draft pick, Spoelstra believes that Beasley’s bump isn’t anything serious: “He took a shot to the chest,” Spoelstra ...

You, SIr, Are No Greg Oden
Published 7/3/2008 at Dropping Dimes
Those of you that have read my work in the past know that I’m not a huge fan of taking the fantasy plunge with rookies on draft day.  For every Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade, we’ve had a Darko Milicic and Michael Olowokandi.  This year, we will be faced with decisions on when to take members of this year’s draft class.  If you inking of giving Michael Beasley the ”Kevin Durant treatment” and take him in the early middle rounds, maybe this will make you think twice: MIAMI (AP)—Michael Beasley’s first official practice with the Miami Heat ended ...

Michael Beasley gets hurt during first practice… Can’t come out to play anymore
Published 7/3/2008 by houroc at SportFiends
Michael Beasley has only been in the NBA for a very short period of time and he is already hurt. He left his first official practice in the league yesterday. Damn, that didn’t take long: Beasley was struck in the chest by an inadvertent elbow during a defensive drill about 45 minutes into Miami’s first summer-league workout session Wednesday, and the No. 2 overall pick in last week’s NBA draft was taken to a doctor for observation. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said the move was strictly precautionary and should not affect Beasley’s availability for Miami’s five-games-in-five-days run through the Orlando summer ...

Beasley Shows Why Summer League Games Mean Nothing
Published 7/9/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Drew H.) at The Undrafted Free Agent
Over the span of two days and two games, Miami Heat forward Michael Beasley proved summer league games, in the grand scheme of things, mean little to nothing. On Monday, Beasley made his summer league debut against the Chicago Bulls, led by fellow super-prospect Derrick Rose. Beasley dominated, scoring 28 points in 23 minutes against very good NBA defenders in Tyrus Thomas and Joakim Noah. He was having fun on the court, laughing, joking and singing as his team rolled over the Bulls. The general consensus, it seemed , was that Beasley is a superstar. Then came Tuesday, and things didn't go very well for ...