Michael Beasley
Name:
Michael Beasley
Position:
Forward
Team:
Kansas State Wildcats
Height:
6-9
Weight:
235
Class:
Freshman
Profile:
One look at Beasley's resume is enough to make even a casual observer think that he'd be in the NBA right now if he had been permitted to enter the draft. His high school career played out at more than a half-dozen schools and saw him re-classified into different grades twice. It seems reasonable to suggest that all those transfers weren't intended to place him in the best possible AP Biology class.
Beasley's arrival at K-State was far from a sure thing. He committed to play for the Wildcats when coach Bob Huggins was still running the show. Huggins has since departed for the head coaching job at West Virginia. There were strong rumors that Beasley would follow Huggins to Morgantown, W.Va, but he ultimately decided to play for Kansas State, where one of his former AAU coaches is on the staff.
An athletic 6-9 lefty forward with the ability to play in the paint or out on the perimeter, Beasley seems well on his way to challenging many of the Big 12 rookie records set last season by Kevin Durant. He's scored 30 or more points in four of Kansas State's games to date, and is averaging 25.8 points, 14.8 boards, and 1.8 blocks per game, and is shooting 58% from the field. And he's hasn't amassed those numbers against non-conference patsies -- he scored 24 points with 12 boards and three blocks on November 29th against Oregon and 19 points with 13 rebounds and another three blocks against Notre Dame.
NBADraft.net ranks Beasley as the likely number one overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.
Michael Beasley
Position:
Forward
Team:
Kansas State Wildcats
Height:
6-9
Weight:
235
Class:
Freshman
Profile:
One look at Beasley's resume is enough to make even a casual observer think that he'd be in the NBA right now if he had been permitted to enter the draft. His high school career played out at more than a half-dozen schools and saw him re-classified into different grades twice. It seems reasonable to suggest that all those transfers weren't intended to place him in the best possible AP Biology class.
Beasley's arrival at K-State was far from a sure thing. He committed to play for the Wildcats when coach Bob Huggins was still running the show. Huggins has since departed for the head coaching job at West Virginia. There were strong rumors that Beasley would follow Huggins to Morgantown, W.Va, but he ultimately decided to play for Kansas State, where one of his former AAU coaches is on the staff.
An athletic 6-9 lefty forward with the ability to play in the paint or out on the perimeter, Beasley seems well on his way to challenging many of the Big 12 rookie records set last season by Kevin Durant. He's scored 30 or more points in four of Kansas State's games to date, and is averaging 25.8 points, 14.8 boards, and 1.8 blocks per game, and is shooting 58% from the field. And he's hasn't amassed those numbers against non-conference patsies -- he scored 24 points with 12 boards and three blocks on November 29th against Oregon and 19 points with 13 rebounds and another three blocks against Notre Dame.
NBADraft.net ranks Beasley as the likely number one overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.
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