{"id":770842,"date":"2023-01-13T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=770842"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:35:24","slug":"michael-beasley-believes-he-can-make-an-impact-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/michael-beasley-believes-he-can-make-an-impact-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Beasley Believes He Can Make An Impact in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael Beasley<\/a> believes that he can still impact the NBA because his playstyle matches what the League is currently embracing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beasley, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, is an athletic wing and efficient shooter from beyond the arc. For his career, Beasley averages 12.4 points and 4.7 rebounds on 46.5 percent shooting from the field and 34.9 percent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you pay attention to how I play, that\u2019s how the NBA plays today,\u201d he said, per Sports Illustrated<\/a>. \u201cI stay in shape and play everyday. If I get the call, I can definitely make an impact. The NBA is on some s\u2014. Donovan [Mitchell] scored 71, Luka [Doncic] 50, LeBron [James] still scoring 40. The game is wide open. When I was playing, the game was about defense. It is about holding teams to 75, 80, 90 points. Now it\u2019s like a rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beasley spend the first two seasons of his NBA career with Miami and bounced around with Minnesota, New York, Phoenix, Houston, Milwaukee, and the Los Angeles Lakers with stints in China as well. He recently played in Puerto Rico and in the Big3 league.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beasley’s opinion about the NBA is certainly understandable as fans watch the NBA transform from an inside-outside League to an outside-inside League with teams setting three-point shooting records yearly and most shot diets consisting mostly of three-pointers, layups, and free throws. As a three-level scorer and capable long distance shooter who can play and multiple defend multiple positions, Beasley fits the mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beasley last played with the Lakers during the 2018-2019 campaign. He averaged 7.0 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.0 assist per game while shooting 49.0 percent from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Beasley believes that he can still impact the NBA because his playstyle matches what the League is currently embracing. Beasley, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, is an athletic wing and efficient shooter from beyond the arc. For his career, Beasley averages 12.4 points and 4.7 rebounds on 46.5 percent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":447,"featured_media":770874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,18,63826,62493],"tags":[107,149,103,269,13007,112,93,119],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-770842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-houston-rockets","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-miami-heat","tag-michael-beasley","tag-milwaukee-bucks","tag-minnesota-timberwolves","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-phoenix-suns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/447"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771487,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770842\/revisions\/771487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770842"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=770842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}