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Michael Beasley | Minnesota Timberwolves | Avatar dude

It’s my list and I’ll do what I want. Avatar is Pocahontas with more lifelike animation and Beasley fell to earth from Pandora.

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An interview with Timberwolves.com suggests that former #2 overall pick might have some Lamar Odom in his game.

Jonah Ballow: And how do you feel you fit in with this team and this offense? You feel like you’re going to play a little bit of that three, that small forward position?

Michael Beasley: Honestly, the offense is set up for me to play any position on the floor. Anybody honestly, the offense is set up for me to play one through five, or Jonny Flynn to play one through five even.

Of course, the ability to play multiple positions isn’t the only thing Beasley and Odom have in common:

Michael Beasley: You know growing up I ate a lot of candy, if you were my dentist you would know that, you know but I eat a lot of candy so from eight to probably like 15, you wouldn’t see me without a pack of Skittles.

Jonah Ballow: You’re not sleeping with your candy like we heard Lamar Odom is doing? I heard Khole [Kardashian] woke up next to him in a bed of chocolate.

Michael Beasley: Not chocolate. I’m not a chocolate man. I’m skittles, anything made by Wonka, you know I like candy not chocolate.

Beasley should benefit from lowered expectations and ample playing time in Minnesota, but the coaching factor might be the most important. In former Laker assistant Kurt Rambis, Beasley finally has a coach with day-to-day experience in dealing with a candy addict. This might have been the deal presented to Lamar: Stop smoking weed and starting getting rebounds, and you can have all the Laffy Taffy and the Everlasting Gobstoppers you want.