[mikeyvthedonParticipant]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nba/story/_/id/7142279/kevin-durant-lebron-james-beat-carmelo-anthony-chris-paul-charity-game

In the Oklahoma City Charity game, Durant’s White Team, which featured Russell Westbrook, won 176-171 over a Blue Team featuring Chris Paul, Melo, Michael Beasley, Jonny Flynn and James Harden. Durant finished with 42 points, 26 rebounds and 11 assists, while Beasley scored a game high 56 points. LeBron James scored 40 points for the winning team, including apparently, a pair of jumpers late in the game to put the team up for good. Chris Paul had 13 assists, and I am just assuming a lot of players had incredibly ridiculous stats in what appears to be one of the more obscenely high scoring charity games thus far. Sure it was awesome for the fans, but I am hoping NBA basketball comes back soon.

Michael Beasley had these incredibly inspiring and insightful words regarding the lockout:

"Fighting over 3 percent, that’s kind of retarded to me," said Michael Beasley, who scored a game-high 56 points. "But it is what is. We’ll come to an agreement."

Thank you for giving us hope, B-Easy. I guess it works both ways, and while I am on the side of the players here, I just hope they know when to say when in regards to the owners demands of the BRI. The owners always win these things, just about the players hopefully getting as much as they can, which is honestly the same way the owners are thinking.

[TallmanNYCParticipant]

 Beasley should realize that when players make statements like that the Owners hear that the players are about to cave. 

Also, don’t say that the owners usually win. In the history of professional sports the general trend has been the owners losing these conflicts. The NHL lock out was an exception because the players didn’t recognize that hockey was decreasing in popularity and that salaries had to go down. 

The players need to get these games on TV. That will satisfy the fans a bit and make the owners sweat. 

[NYK2010Participant]

Owners and players need to end this lockout already.

Btw anyone interested in joining a basketball sim league.   You draft your own players, trade them sign in free agency and can improve their production with camps etc.  If you join just say NYK2010 told you about it.

Here’s the link

http://insidethepaint.proboards.com/index.cgi

[Scottoant93Participant]

Honestly Beasley is mad right now because he set up a charity game which included Kevin Love, KD, Derrick Williams, and John Wall and they all bailed on him and were no-shows. 

 

Everyone bailed on Michael Beasley’s charity game

Posted on: October 22, 2011 7:53 pm

Edited on: October 22, 2011 7:57 pm

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Posted by Ben Golliver. 

There have been a lot of sad stories during the NBA lockout, but this rivals them all.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley, he of the marijuana arrest and fan face mush, decided to organize a charity basketball game in Minnesota. Great idea! He invited tons of big name players, including NBA scoring champ Kevin Durant and All-Star Kevin Love. He even called it the "All-Star Classic" and organizers reportedly charged up to $300 for a ticket.

Two problems. None of the good players showed up. And not many fans showed up.

The Star-Tribune reported that everyone who is actually good that was scheduled in the game just no-showed.

Organizers originally priced tickets at between $60 and $300, then changed them to $40 general admission, $100 for VIP reserve and $300 for court seats when it became clear Durant, Love, [John] Wall and No. 2 overall pick Derrick Williams wouldn’t play.

The paper also reported that organizers estimated the attendance at 1,200. The Associated Press, though, pegged the number at "about 600 to 700."

So who was left to play in this "All-Star Classic?" Exactly zero All-Stars of course. The seven NBA participants, according to the AP, were Beasley, Wesley Johnson, Anthony Randolph, Wayne Ellington, Lazar Hayward, Anthony Tolliver and Dorell Wright. Wright can actually play, Beasley and Johnson both started a majority of games for the 17-win Timberwolves last season, but the rest are fringe NBA players. Potential D-League All-Stars, sure, but that’s about it. And, together, not even enough players for a full 5-on-5 NBA experience.

Paying to see Kevin Durant and getting to see Wayne Ellington instead would have gone down as the worst kind of bait-and-switch imaginable, but thankfully the proceeds went to worthy local charities. 

Beasley’s All-Star Classic winds up serving as a tidy symbol of his own NBA trajectory. Launched with the promise of big things as the No. 2 overall pick in the draft. Eventually revealed to be something totally different and, ultimately, disappointing.

eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/32860332

Plus in all honesty, I watched the owners and players last interview and the only thing I heard coming out of the players side mouth was that "We didn’t end the meeting, they said take or leave it", they kept repeating those same words and how they are telling the truth and the owners are lieing, and the owners kept saying saying the opposite and how its the players who won’t corperate and how they are losing money. I swear its like watching 5 years olds argue, you just have to wait til one slips in their lie

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