Michael Beasley Sr. said Saturday that his son is scheduled to leave a Houston rehab center today and expects the Miami Heat to experience a more mature player upon the second-year forward’s return to the practice court.
“He said he learned a lot about himself in this process,” the elder Beasley said by phone, “and it was a wake-up call for him that he needs to take his career more seriously.”
The younger Beasley has been in inpatient treatment since last month, after committing a violation while in the NBA’s substance-abuse program.
“He’s OK. He’s got his head together. He’s happy,” Michael Beasley Sr. said. “He talked about the decisions he made that got him where he was. And once he took responsibility for that, then he took the program more seriously.”
