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Want to meet Michael Beasley? Need some new kicks? Well I’m about to kick-start your already good Miami Friday.

Today adidas is putting Beasley to work as a Champs Sports employee at Aventura Mall in Miami to get fans amped up about the new, Official NBA Shop at Champs Sports.

That’s right, Supercool Beas is gonna trade in his Miami HEAT duds for a Champs uniform to be your personal shopper, work the register, heck — maybe he’ll even upsell you some insoles too and everybody’s invited to come out.

Plus they’ll be free signed Beasley swag, gift cards and other prices.

His appearance is today from 4:30 – 5:30 PM at Champs @ Aventura Mall in Miami, Florida.

On yesterday’s NBA on TNT broadcast, Ernie Johnson brought Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley some of the coolest headphones a basketball fan could ever want. Inspired by the upcoming Mix Master Mike series, Skullcandy has created headphones to celebrate some of the best players in the game today like Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

Kevin Garnett, Derrick Rose, Deron Williams and Andre Iguodala also have their own signature models.

More pics, after the jump.

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It is now signed sealed and delivered with proof of the press conference and Michael Jordan is the first former player to become a majority owner of a NBA franchise after he purchased the Charlotte Bobcats from Bob Johnson for an estimated cool $275 million.

“If you had asked me 5, 10 years ago if I would be here with the opportunity to own a basketball team, I would have never believed it,” Jordan said at Time Warner Cable Arena. “Yet it’s a dream come true for me.

“I just want the city to experience what winning is all about.”

The Bobcats have lost $100 million under Bob Johnson, and Jordan hopes to turn that around to save NBA basketball in North Carolina.

When your an NBA shot blocker, sometimes you win some and some times you lose some. Emeka Okafor made sure Chris Andersen lost this time.

All five Miami Heat players were watching Vince Carter, and as he dribbled toward the lane no one was within 15 feet of Rashard Lewis. Big mistake. And the Orlando Magic’s postseason push kept rolling along.

Lewis took the pass in his favorite spot near the left corner, then made the clinching three-pointer with 28.4 seconds left as the Magic recovered from wasting a 12-point lead in the final 4:45 of regulation and beat the Heat 108-102 in overtime Thursday night. The Magic won for the 10th time in 11 games, improved to 9-8 on the second night of back-to-backs and stretched their lead atop the Southeast Division to 4½ games over Atlanta.
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Natalia Muntean is a Ms. Bikini Universe Champion (2009) from Sarasota, Florida.

More Natalia Muntean after the jump.

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The Miami Heat take serious pride in their game intros at American Airlines Arena and they kicked up the “Heat” a notch for their Noche Latina games.

Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld announced Thursday that the team has signed swingman Alonzo Gee to a second 10-day contract. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not announced.

“He’s been good. We have to play him some more, who knows, he might start tomorrow, I don’t know,” Saunders said. “We’ve got to play him. He’s playing hard, he creates and he competes.”

Gee originally signed with Washington on March 7. In five games for the Wizards, Gee has averaged 7.6 points (.609 fg%) and 4.2 assists in 13.2 minutes per game.

See the ridiculous work of Gee, after the jump.

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WNBA star Candace Parker who is the wife of Shelden Williams and sister of Anthony Parker talks about why she is anti-fur and her love of animals in an exclusive interview with PETA. It’s pretty crazy what some folks will do to look like a forest animal.

Word that Wilson Chandler could miss the rest of the season is hardly reason to panic for Knicks fans or Mike D’Antoni who is kinda — meh about the prospects of Chandler being shut down for what’s left of the ‘09-10 season.

“If it’s the rest of the year, it’s the rest of the year,” D’Antoni said, “It’s kind of tough sometimes because a lot of people don’t know,” Chandler said of playing through his injury, which he said he first suffered two months ago.

“For the most part, I’m just going to do whatever I can do to help the team win.”

Chandler has been one of the few bright spots in the Knicks terrible season and figures to be apart of the grand Knicks plan for the ‘10-11 season.

H/N Greenwich Time