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Chapter 1: What challenges did Michael Beasley face growing up in Maryland?
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We found out my mom was lying about us about having stage two cancer and it was stage four. Every day she was like, really, get up and make sure she take her morphine so she can have that phone call. I was pissed at them. She died, man. I didn't even know how to say it. I didn't know how to say that. And then I just went out there and I just had the wrong shorts on.
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Chapter 2: How did Kevin Durant influence Michael Beasley's basketball journey?
You know, B, every time we have a Club Che Che episode, we always toast because every guest that's come on here has accomplished something great. And so we have a signature drink, my drink, which is Che by La Portier. We're here at 11. Thank you, 11, for hosting us. We got the very talented and lovely Marissa bringing us a drink. We got you what you asked for, a double shot. Me, I got a side cart.
You mix? Yeah, yeah. Not normally, but I like sidecar. How you deal with the hangovers? No, ain't no hangover. Because we don't add no artificial color or sugar. That's all natural. That's great. That's a petite champagne and an uni-blanc grape. So, I promise you, once you... Yeah, see? Go ahead, take your time. Do what you do. Nah, I'm checking for teardrops. Uh-huh. Normally, we have a...
a Turkish quartz glass that's specially blended to drink our cognac because 80% of it comes through your nose. So when you nuzzle it, you like, you don't get that burn. You don't get that thing that's hitting you in the head. Mm-hmm. I like it better than VSOP.
Yeah.
Who's VSOP? You know what I'm talking about.
I ain't paying me.
I ain't gonna say it. Um... Go ahead, take your time. I'll put it next to XO. See what I tell you? That's what it is. It's a VSOP that drinks like an XO. What's the price? This is, it all depends. We don't set the price. The retailer sets the price. So we sell it to them for one thing, and obviously they're going to make their money. So it all depends on where you are. $100, $200, what?
Somewhere between $79 and $99. And it tastes, okay, I can do that. As a matter of fact, we won't give you a bottle before you leave. Yeah, my bottle's cost, you know. Yeah, I know what your bottle's cost, yeah. So let's get right into it. From the DMV. I'm from D.C. You're from D.C. I'm from D.C. and PG County. The DMV just really give it... D.C., Maryland, Virginia.
Yeah, we don't live on Virginia's side. And they don't live on our side.
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Chapter 3: What lessons did Michael Beasley learn from his family dynamics?
I know there's respect to them and things like that, but the DMV is a new thing. All right. So you're from D.C., Prince George County. Yeah. Okay. Growing up in D.C. as a child, what did... B's wanted to be when he was a kid. Honestly? Yeah. A rapper. Really? Really. I'm one of those dealers.
I don't want to say it online, but I was raised by... My uncle got the Rico the first time when I was eight. I think it was 97, 96. I was like seven. My dad... My grandfather did 99 years. He died. Right. But he's Rob Banks. Damn. So I used to think, you know, so. So that's what you grew up around. And so that's kind of. But they all kept me on the basketball court.
So I shot my first shot at three years old. I remember at Walker Mill Gardens, I think, back outside court. But when I first started playing organized, I was eight. John Edgar Howard. My uncle got locked up. This was like 97. My uncle got locked up. I was just in the hood until I met Katie.
So were you a kid because you mentioned your grandfather got locked up, your uncle got locked up, your father got locked up. So kind of like, who raised you? Who was the influence that you like, Kind of gravitated to make you think like, okay, you got the basketball, but listening to you say, I want to be a rapper, which is not a bad profession.
And then you're like, yeah, well, I ain't gonna say what else I wanted to be. So kind of like you kind of gravitated towards people that you saw in the neighborhood that was kind of doing those kinds of activities. Yeah. That's how we get in trouble. Yeah. True. True. I was always bigger. Right. Right. So, so you were big for your age. So I didn't speak my first word. So I was like three. Okay.
but I was the size of a three year old at 10 months. Right? So my mom used to tell the story all the time. She got into a car accident when I was a year old. And it was a soft car accident. The officer came to her and was in such in distress, man, we got to get your son to the hospital right away. He's unresponsive. He's not saying anything. We asked him his name. He don't know.
He don't know his age. And she looked at him like, bro, he 11 months. You know what I'm saying? I was that big. So I skipped pre-K. I was in kindergarten at like four years old, right? So by the time I was in sixth grade or seventh grade, I was 11 in seventh grade. I was real young, 10th or 11th in seventh grade. So I was always just doing what they did. Everybody just thought I was older.
Everybody always thought I was older. Right. I couldn't talk at first, and by the time I learned to speak, I learned you would do it for me, so just play dumb, right? So you just sit back and let others talk for you? Yeah, and then when you don't say what I don't want to say, then I just don't kick it with you no more. But that's just been my whole life, you know?
I wasn't Michael Beasley until I was maybe 15. Right now, I was just Mike. They called me Little Mike. My dad was Big Mike. So I was just Little Mike. My grandmother used to call me Bougie Man. Why is that? Because I don't eat leftovers. This leather couch? Yeah. My great-grandfather, Granddaddy Glanions, he died on a leather couch.
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Chapter 4: How has the AAU culture changed from Michael Beasley's time to now?
Because... Well, you did ā hold on. You're telling me I look old? No, no, no. You don't look old. But I just think the thing is because Kevin ā and I think a lot of this is that Kevin is still playing. And you probably ā and we're going to get into that. Kevin is still playing at an elite level. Wait, wait, wait. I'm still playing at an elite level? But I'm just in the NBA.
Oh, but, hey, let me ask you a question. Yes. If you didn't breathe, is the air still here? Yes. Yes. So just because I'm not in the NBA don't mean it's not elite in my gym too, right? I hear what you're saying. Yes. But I'm still dribbling a basketball too. Don't retire me early. Okay, all right.
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Kevin was the first person that's ever told me, don't do that, let's go to the gym. And when the gym was closed, we used to go to the back of the gym and it was embarrassing at first, but whatever. It was just, it was a small seven foot court. And we, you know, he was, he was better than me first. So he knew how to jump off one feet. I knew I was a two foot jumper.
And we used to just try to dunk on each other all the time. Bro, he used to dunk on me so much. Cause nigga, I didn't realize then, but he would stretch up over the one foot, right? So like KD was the first person that, right? And then after that, I met and ultimately fell in love with Nolan Smith. He taught me with basketball. Didn't he go to Duke? Okay, they just go to Duke.
He was Duke national champion. Yeah, whatever. But yeah, I fell in love with Nolan and Nolan became my brother. I lived with Nolan from 14 to when I went to college, 13 when I was in college. You mentioned that you met KD, and then was that when your love of basketball took shape when you already played? I always loved it. I just didn't know how to love it because I only played outside.
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Chapter 5: What childhood experiences shaped Michael Beasley's basketball journey?
Of what? He kept documentation. I took beads to McDonald's or I bought beads some shoes or I did this or I did that. From the time you were 13 to the time you were drafted. Which is what broke my heart. Because you thought he was doing it out of kindness of his heart. Which is why I just asked you, how much do you, for 18 years of his life,
If you're a real dad, how much do you really... If your son grow up and become Elon Musk and only give you 10 grand or not even... My kid ain't got to give me nothing. My kid didn't ask to come here. Let's just talk real facts if y'all want to hear real facts. Later for the days that I just subscribe to whatever y'all say, either hear what I say or don't ask me, but this is real shit.
High school. Is it true you went to six high schools? Mm-hmm. I went to seven elementary schools. I went to four middle schools.
Chapter 6: How did Michael Beasley feel about his high school experiences?
I went to six high schools. Okay. You went your freshman year, National Christian, 30 points, 10 rebounds. Sophomore year, Riverdale Baptist, 28, 13 rebounds. Junior year, Oak Hill. Okay, good. What'd I miss? What'd we miss? I went National Christian, I went Longburg Prep. Longburg Prep, okay. I went IMG Academy. Okay. I went Riverdale Baptist. Okay. I went Oak Hill Academy. Okay.
I went Notre Dame Prep. Okay. Why so many schools?
Chapter 7: What impact did LeBron James have on Michael Beasley's career?
Because I didn't understand who I was at the time, and I was just a jokester. Yeah. Remember I told you the size thing? Yeah. When you see me, like, I will be quiet first so that people take that as maturity. Right. So then what I would do, like, things a kid would do...
Not only would it surprise you because you think I'm older, but it'll extra surprise you because you don't know I'm actually younger. Remember, I was 11, 10 turning 11 in the seventh grade. All my peers was 12 turning 13. That doesn't sound like a lot now, but a 13 to 11-year-old, that's a very big maturity gap. So let me ask you a question.
Chapter 8: Why did Michael Beasley struggle to find success in Miami?
How tall were you? How tall were you 11, 12 years old? Six foot, six two, six three? 11, I was six one. Yeah, like six one. I was big my whole life. I never had a growth spurt. Like the only thing that grew on me, like from 11, 11 I was 12. And then the summer of eighth grade, from seventh grade to eighth grade, these shits went from 11 and a half to a fucking 18 where they are today.
Swear to God, that's not a, like, nigga, my mother hated me that summer because she thought I was lying just to get new shoes every week. And every time we had goals, like, dog, bigger size, bigger foot, six, seven months. Right. Bro, feet was hurting. How did he even find shoes a size 18? We didn't until I started playing basketball. So you basically had to wear basketball shoes the whole while.
No, I wore the same. Like, my uncle that got locked up, before he got locked up, he gave me a pair of Damon Stoudemire's. This is my favorite shoes ever. But they was a little too small. Yeah. So when they really got small, I used to just step on them and just wear them as slippers. And then, you know, I'd stop. Like, by the time I got...
Like, my first pair of shoes in the 17, 18 was the Allen Iversons with the zipper. Yeah. They got a lot of shits. My mom came home with them shits. But that's when I was able to... You know, we're tired of Damon Stoddard in my eyes because my foot was hanging out that big. But I was always tall my whole life. I stopped growing my third year in the league in Minnesota.
I got drafted at like 6'8 1ā2 with no shoes. And by the time I got to Minnesota, I'm like now I'm like 6'10 1ā2. I mean, look at that number. You're dominant every school that you went. Was it hard being on your own? Because you're on your own at these schools, right? Was it hard being? Because like you said, you're a kid. You're 14, 15, 16. You're on your own. But I was used to it.
I was on my own my whole life. I grew up with my mom. Then I stopped playing basketball and just started living with Nolan and his family. I was on my own then. Like, I love Nolan. I love, but you know, like, you know, like waking up Early? My grandma, she wake up 5.30 every morning? Yes. Start looking for change in the couches and shit. Every morning, like, somebody put it there last night.
But every morning, she... This is how I knew God is. This is my first, like, I knew really... Every morning, she'd wake us up 5.30. Man, I got to go. I got to go and find a dollar and ten cents to get on the bus early. Every morning. I swear to God. So I'm just used to waking up early. Right. I move with Nolan, they don't wake up early. Not as early as I do.
I was like, you know, tiptoe around the house. Right. You know, so I've just been alone my whole life. And, like... That's it, I've just been quiet my whole life. And it's like, when I come outside, I just be wanting to have fun or just joke or something. And then the world just, for some reason, the world judges your opinion like it's a test.
So if I ask you, hey yo, what you think about the color green? And you just say, I don't like it because it reminds me of the forest. Now all of a sudden you're just a forest killer, right? So it's like, we live in a society to where it's like, you can't give opinion without it being graded like a test. And that's basically my whole life. McDonald's All-American game. You won the MVP.
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