The idea of an estate sale is creepy
enough as it is. Usually they're put together in an attempt to sell off the last
remaining vestiges and assets of someone who has recently passed on, or a person
run afoul of either the law or their own checking account. Phoenix Suns forward Michael Beasley appears to be in no such trouble, and even though he didn't
exactly break the bank with his second pro contract, its average-sized makeup
falls right in line with the rookie deal he started working under in 2008 that
paid him just over $20 million over four years.
This doesn't explain why the former
Minnesota Timberwolves forward, as he moves on to his third NBA city in five
seasons, needs to set up an estate sale for his abandoned Minnesota home, rather
than just hiring a crew to toss everything into a truck and move his clutter
down to Phoenix. This also doesn't explain why Beasley, even while we're aware
of his goofball reputation, has so much goofball stuff in his house. Though it
is well-penned, to read her recap is to be left confused; all because Beasley is
such a confusing dude.
Tchotchkes and oddities seemed to dot the
house; and it wasn't just that hoops-related memorabilia wasn't available for
sale, apparently there wasn't any in the house to begin with. What was available
were the sort of dusty book-filled shelves and animal-themed salt and pepper
shakers that you'd tend to pick up at an estate sale set up for someone four
times Beasl
ey's age that had shuffled off this Minneapolis coil.
Look at Niesen's photo gallery (or Jake
Nyberg's Twitter-based run). It's not so much that Beasley took his
modern-as-tomorrow entertainment systems and "Scarface" posters down to Phoenix
and left the estate sale to deal with his flotsam and jetsam, it's that he had
all this Your Aunt-styled clutter to begin with. And, again, instead of dumping
it all in a truck or piling it in the back of a U-Haul dragged by his PT Cruiser
(we're guessing, after looking at the remnants of this sale), Beasley decided to
add to his bank account 15 bucks at a time by selling off every last throw
pillow.
It's all so wonderfully Super Cool Beas,
even if it's the furthest thing from "Super Cool" that we could imagine.
Toasters and stuffed animals and more coffee table books and all sorts of stuff
that even you or I would leave behind, regardless of whether or not we were just
given a three-year, $18 million contract to go play in a state with lax income
tax laws.
Heads-up, Phoenix. You're getting a
goofball for the ages. Hopefully one that, after three-straight seasons of
declining production, is using his "Everything Must Go"-sale as a way to
completely leave his past behind, and start over from scratch.
Or maybe Michael just wanted an excuse to
shop for some new pillows with tassels hanging from them.
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