Michael Beasley accidentally suggested 223 million people could defend him, thanks to unfortunate typo
It is nearly unfathomable how much better at basketball the average NBA player is than everyone else in the universe.
Because of how much talent there is in the league, it is easy to forget that even the worst player in the league would destroy a lot of D-I ballers. But anyone who can play at the highest levels in college would give nightmares to a solid player at the YMCA.
Watch any video of Brian Scalabrine, rocking the world of anyone who has ever challenged him to a game of one-on-one. Scalabrine averaged 3.1 points per game during his professional career and never reached 7.0 ppg.
If that’s what Scalabrine could do, imagine what Michael Beasley — who was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2008 NBA draft — could accomplish. He scored more than 12.0 points per game during his time in the league and reached as many as 19.2 ppg back in 2010-11.
So it’s not unreasonable for Beasley to declare that most of the planet could defend him. Especially at one point, when he averaged 26.2 points per game at Kansas State, almost no one walking the planet could stop him from ever scoring the basketball.
Beasley tweeted that there are approximately 7.75 billion people walking the Earth. While he presumably meant to say that only 223 of them could guard him, due to an incredibly unfortunate typo, that’s not what Beasley said.
Instead, based on math pointed out by nerds across Twitter, what Beasley actually said was that a whopping 223 million people could guard him.
As some folks pointed out, that would mean the entire population of Pakistan could give him the clamps. Yikes!
Beasley later realized the mistake and tweeted that he simply forgot to add an incredibly necessary “7” at the beginning of the number.
He might be humble but he doesn’t actually think that more than two-thirds of the United States population could lock him down while playing pickup.
Even though he isn’t actively in the NBA, Beasley is still one of the most skilled players on the planet. He could still give the business to nearly any challenger — except for the elite group of players who are in the league.
Oh, and the 230 million other people who he said could shut him down.