<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Michael Beasley is leaving Memphis Grizzlies camp, signing a deal in China, agent Jared Karnes tells Yahoo Sports.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/520278484032434178">October 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Beasley is signing with the Shanghai Sharks, owned by Yao Ming.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/520279288407687168">October 9, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I wonder how stringent chinese squads are with testing for THC.. hehe Gonna have to homegrow tho.. Chinese weed must be **** overall
I follow his FB and he's actually been hired by them a few weeks ago to improve their marketing and fan experience. Great to see his determination paying off.
Don't think he'd sign with a CBA team if he'd received positive signals from the Memphis coaching staff. There's a reason he's only been nvited into a training camp, no one signed him.
Maybe Yao can introduce him to some chinese herbs that can make him live up to his potential, since marihuana is not working out
He got waived. http://www.nba.com/grizzlies/news/memphis-grizzlies-waive-michael-beasley You can't switch leagues on your own. FIBA requires your team to OK it. Maybe he told them he wanted to be cut. But Memphis must release him from his contract, first.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>PHOTO: Yao Ming, Michael Beasley and Delonte West went to lunch <a href="http://t.co/pLpvSnNaFv">http://t.co/pLpvSnNaFv</a> <a href="http://t.co/A6peEz7s7e">pic.twitter.com/A6peEz7s7e</a></p>— Eye on Basketball (@CBSSportsNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSSportsNBA/status/524592029062684672">October 21, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Yao Ming apparently identified a market inefficiency that makes lighter skinned players with off court issues valuable contributors.