Michael Beasley was Homeless and Slept in His Car for 2 Years

Michael Beasley opens up about the darkest years of his life — sleeping in his car, battling court issues, losing his phone and finances, and still showing up to hoop like nothing was wrong. While the world thought he was living lavish, he was surviving on checker fries and hope. This is one of the rawest, most honest interviews you’ll hear from a former NBA star. Beasley gets vulnerable about the grind, the silence, the pain, and the mindset that got him through it all.
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Uh, I was sleeping in my car back then. Yeah. IRS came fuck me over for some shit. My old CPS that did CPA um that uh you know bay mess and shit. So like I was sleeping in my car from 20 21 I want to say to like 202 early 23 for like 3 years two years two years like thugging it like really thugging it. So like like like like and I was on these niggas, you understand? I was like I was like niggas coming in Rolls-Royces and shit, you understand? And niggas coming in with chefs and and eating and [Music] I was I was on these niggas, you know what I’m saying? Yeah. Nigga eating eating checker fries. Yeah. Real shit, nigga. That’s real shit, nigga. Fries. I’m talking about nigga couldn’t afford the checker fries, nigga. fucking fucking fucking 539 cuz I just wanted the large ones. You understand? Like niggas and I was on these niggas every fucking day. I was on these niggas. Did they know you were in that state? No. Nobody knew the fuck. My mother always told me never tell them when you up so you ain’t got to show them when you’re down. You understand? Like I was on them. You understand? and and and and and right. Yeah. The fuck nigga ain’t ask nobody for nothing. You understand? And and and I watched them laugh and and and I watched them I I was really on them niggas, bro. I was and I still am. Yeah. So during that time from the outside looking in, people probably look at you like, you know, probably feel like you were just living your moment in a in a high regard, not knowing. Yeah. Everybody was like I was going through court at the time and and and like I was fucked over. Like the car was sleeping. It was under my baby mother name, right? My my phone was under my baby name. I was going through court at the time and she she cut my phone off cuz she was upset and I missed court. I tried to explain this shit. I tried to explain this shit in court, right? Oh nah, you you just living your high life on a high horse. D I ain’t have a phone. I ain’t I don’t got address fucking finance. I’m reporting zero with my finances. You understand? Like like and and and that’s why I say like nigga I went from crying for help to trying myself. Like everybody that’s like on my line now and everybody want like I don’t want I don’t like you. Like my stomach was growling and tomorrow came. Like like I was hungry by myself and tomorrow came. I don’t like you. I don’t I don’t have to like you. I like me. I like me so I like me that much. I’m I’m Cuz I was there for me. God, right? Yes, sir. Every fucking day, every fucking dribble, every time, every DM. And this is why I don’t like y’all saying my name because when I was there, I was I I was I I was I was All of you DMs. All of you. All of my That’s everybody. That shit hurt. But tomorrow came. I couldn’t I couldn’t You understand? I couldn’t let the sun beat me. Nigga, what? Mm-m. That’s That’s a part of the narrative I hate, bro. People don’t think I work. People don’t think I People just think I’m so cool cuz they they want to be light-kinned. Everybody want want green eyes. Like, well, you know, I can’t see me. You understand? You you you know, they put a um a mirror in the jungle and and and and and it was a the first time the gorilla seen itself went crazy. A tiger don’t care about his stripes. You understand? But everybody think I’m just so confident because because I don’t No, I’m scared just like y’all. I’m just I just always been too scared to tell you I’m not, you know, too afraid to tell you I’m afraid. You understand? But it’s like no, that moment was fucking fucked. Yeah. Don’t Don’t I I ain’t. No. During all that time, that period, you kept you kept hooping. Why? Because the right answer never cared who said it, right? So while I’m sitt while while while every day y’all sitting there telling me I’m the wrong answer, I’m telling these kids, look look like like it’s a thing in my gym. I tell these kids in my gym like y like like like y’all don’t think I got humility like like like I tell these kids in my gym like yo you want to be Michael Beasley or Kevin Durant. You understand? And they get that. I tell my kids I say yo I’m known as one of the best basketball players ever. Do you want to be that without a job or you want to be kicking niggas in the balls making 40 million a year? Says Draymond. Right. It’s like no. Yeah. Yeah. I kept hooping. Why? Somebody going to dri dribble the ball, right? It’s going to dribble. Something going to come up the fuck why I’m here? Why? Why? Why? Why not me?