Michael Beasley Has Beef With Stephen A. Smith After A Rant About Him Smoking Weed


A great rapper once said “first the Fat Boys break up and every day I wake up somebody got a problem with Hov”, after today, Michael Beasley can echo those sentiments. Because there’s a fairly prominent ESPN analyst that has a problem with some of the comments that the man once known as “Super Cool Beas” said during Knicks media day on Tuesday.

Beasley, full of the optimism that a new NBA season brings, said that he believes that the Knicks potentially have up to four guys that are capable of averaging 25 points per game on his new team. It’s the middle of September, so these kind of comments are usually said by anyone and everyone in an NBA locker room. Unfortunately for Beasley, he happened to say this to the New York media, which can take the most inane quote and blow it up into something spectacular.

One of those people bothered by Beasley’s bravado would be Stephen A Smith, world renowned Knicks fan and ESPN analyst. Smith, clearly perturbed by Beasley’s irrational confidence, took to the airwaves on his daily radio show on and went on a ten minute rant to address what he saw as a problem for Beasley.

Via ESPN Radio

I am famous for saying things like stay of the weed, and its usually aimed at NFL players. I now have to throw an NBA player on that list, because Michael Beasley drafted #2 overall after Derrick Rose years ago by the Miami Heat. (He) can score very very well but can’t stick with a team, therefore making him a journeyman. But I like him, like him as a person, like him as a player. But evidently he’s smokin’ something. Did you hear what he had to say ladies and gentlemen? The man went on the record and said that he believes that the New York Knicks have FOUR 25 points per game scorers. Four. Who dat? Who are these people? Who? Cause I don’t see them? I don’t know what the hell he’s talking about.

And I gotta tell you ladies and gentlemen, when he said that, I instantly thought he should’ve been tested. But Beasley coming out and saying that the New York Knicks have four 25 points per game scorers, if I were the league office, I’d have him investigated and tested for weed now. I really do, I’d have someone over there are the Knicks practice facility or wherever the hell he was, he’d be putting something in a bottle for me right now. Something’s not right. What an ignorant thing to say. No way is that applicable. I just wanted to make sure I pointed that out.

Beasley, rightly bothered by Smith’s accusations that he smokes weed, took to Instagram to send a message out, ominously asking Smith for a phone call and simply @’ing Smith as the caption.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZRZKu-AkJp/

While Beasley has tested positive for weed before in the league, the fact that Smith would accuse him of such a thing simply based on something he said is something that any reasonable human being would be mad about. This also isn’t the first time a player has not been pleased with Smith over a drug-related rant, as Lamar Odom ripped Smith for his infamous rant about him being on crack.

Where this story takes a turn though, is at the end of Beasley’s video where he says, “don’t make me wait.” Which implies that Beasley probably wants his apology public and immediate in shor torder. At the end of the day though, it stand to remind NBA fans that there’s one constant in the NBA world: there’s always at least one Knick with a public beef with the media. But it’s September, and if Carmelo Anthony isn’t traded, the circus around Madison Square Garden could reach peak dysfunction before Christmas, which would be a record, even for this team.

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