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2009 Miami Heat Offseason Thread

Zo's next challenge: Michael Beasley

Q: How do you plan to establish a relationship with Michael in your new role?

Mourning: "It just requires us to develop a stronger bond. Through relationships, that's when trust is developed. If I can get to a point where Michael understands where I have his best interests in mind, and understands that he can confide in me for any type of guidance, or direction or what have you, if we can get to that level, then ultimately you can see progress."

Q: How do you plan to do that?

Mourning: "Just based on my utilizing some of my experiences and expertise to help him become a better professional on and off the court."

Q: Is there an urgency to your approach?

Mourning: "We can't forget that Michael is a child. He's 19, 20 years old. If you document all the things, you and I had done at 19 or 20 years old, we have a couple of pages of crazy things we did. A lot of people fail to realize that. Because he's on such a pedestal, his life is under a microscope right now."
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http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_basketball_heat/2009/07/zos-next-challenge-michael-beasley.html
 
Source: Odom, Lakers agree on deal


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Free agent forward Lamar Odom will return to the Los Angeles Lakers, an NBA source said Thursday.
One source with knowledge of the talks told ESPN.com the four-year deal is worth $33 million if the Lakers exercise the final season.

One source close to the process said Odom will come away with a guaranteed $27 million from the new contract, matching the original value of the three-year, $27 million deal Lakers owner Jerry Buss pulled off the table earlier this month.

It's believed that the structure of the new deal calls for Odom to earn $25 million over the first three seasons, with the Lakers owing him $2 million in the fourth year if they elect not to pick up their team option.

Reached Thursday evening, Odom's agent Jeff Schwartz declined to discuss specifics but confirmed that the sides have an agreement in principle.

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak declined comment.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4367213
 
Q-Rich to the Heat

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4398317

Quentin Richardson and Dwyane Wade are regular workout partners during the offseason. They're about to get a chance to play together all year long.

Richardson's wild summer tour of the NBA continued Thursday night, when he was traded by the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Miami Heat for center Mark Blount.

Richardson spent the last four seasons with the New York Knicks and now has been traded four times in less than two months: to Memphis on draft night, then to the Los Angeles Clippers, then to Minnesota and now to Miami.

"We are very excited to add Quentin Richardson," Heat president Pat Riley said. "Over the course of his career, he has proven to be a fierce competitor, a great locker room presence and a very prolific 3-point shooter who may be one of the strongest perimeter players in the NBA. We feel that he will be able to match-up well against the top scorers in the league."
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Somewhat underwhelming move. But its not like Blount was doing anything useful for the Heat. Not sure how this effects the Beasley as a SF idea.
 
GrandMaster D said:
when did this happen
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Miami Heat thinned its ranks at center Thursday night by trading for a player who seemingly has spent the entire offseason touring the NBA.

Mark Blount, who would have entered the season fourth on the Heat's depth chart in the middle behind starter Jermaine O'Neal and reserves Jamaal Magloire and Joel Anthony, was dealt to the Minnesota Timberwolves for guard Quentin Richardson.

Like Blount, Richardson, who has spent part of the summer working out with Heat guard Dwyane Wade in Chicago, is in the final year of his contract, and therefore will not impact the Heat's ability to add a prime free agent in the 2010 offseason.

It will be the second tour with Minnesota for Blount, who was acquired from the Timberwolves before the 2007-08 season along with Ricky Davis in a deal that sent the Heat's Antoine Walker, Michael Doleac, Wayne Simien and a first-round pick to Minnesota.

Blount is due to earn $7,967,374 this coming season. Richardson is due $9.4 million.

Richardson, 29, provides depth at shooting guard behind Wade and Daequan Cook and also can swing to small forward, where the Heat has a glut with James Jones, Dorell Wright and Yakhouba Diawara, with the team also hoping to play Michael Beasley at that position this coming season.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/sfl-miami-heat-blount-s081309,0,3452918.story
 
Thank god Blount and his contract are gone. Although Q gets payed more, he's actually a prodcutive player
 
now who starts him or beasley at the 3
 
Reports: Heat F Beasley goes into rehab

The Miami Heat forward checked into a Houston rehabilitation facility last week and is being treated for various issues, including depression, a person briefed on the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of privacy concerns, and could not say whether the other issues included drug or alcohol treatment.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4419340
 
Something's going on with Beasley. Exactly what isn't clear. Drugs? Depression? A simple trip to a Houston clinic to complete his compliance with the NBA's substance-abuse program from being around marijuana last summer at a rookie symposium?

``Please pray for him, he needs it,'' Michael Beasley Sr. said in a Twitter message.

OK. But for what? And how serious is this?

All you know for sure is this explains a lot of what happened last season: The Heat asking him to grow up; Dwyane Wade wondering about his behavior; The Heat prudently trying to move him along slowly despite fan outrage; the Olympic team not wanting him at tryouts; and Alonzo Mourning being asked to help counsel him.

Beasley has some kind of issues. Exactly what kind aren't known. Exactly how it will imprint his NBA career can't be known.
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http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/spo...og/2009/08/beasley_story_sucked_into_the.html
 
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