NBA Player Beasley Packs a Powerful (Self Inflicted) Punch

NBA team Miami Heat welcomed back Michael Beasley last week, but the player required medical treatment shortly after the game… for self inflicted wounds.   Beasley started off his first minutes of play really well, scoring nine points in just five minutes.  However, the player then did something that sports commentators have described as “weird”.  After an offensive play, Beasley got a little too hard on himself and started punching himself in the head. According to the Miami Heat blog in the Miami Herald, “he punched himself so hard that he needed treatment after the game from the Heat’s trainer. Steel compresses (like the ones cut doctors use in boxing) were applied to Beasley’s brow in the locker room.”

The following day, the team issued a statement that the treatment that Beasley required after the game was not in any way connected to his self punching, but rather from a blow which he took from Pistons forward Jonas Jerebko.

At a press conference this week, Beasley said: “I watched the video, and it does look like I knocked the mess out of myself.  I had everybody in the world calling me and asking, ‘Why you so crazy?'”

Beasley has since played with Miami, scoring 13 points in 19 minutes, and proving that why it worth giving him a second chance after he was dropped the first time when Miami traded him in a bid to lure LeBron James and Chris Brosh.  Beasley then went on to experience three disappointing seasons with Minnesota and Phoenix, before being picked up by Miami once more.

“I’m coming into a delicate situation,” Beasley said about his second chance. “It’s not pressure, but it is a little more to think about. I don’t want to be the reason the ship falls. I’m definitely taking it more serious than my first two years.”