Michael Beasley: 'Bob Marley was an influential part of my life'

Michael Beasley, who returned to the Heat last summer, is a big fan of Bob Marley and he has a tattoo his tattoo on the abdomen.

Michael Beasley said that Bob Marley was an influential part of his life.

Per Miami Herald, “Bob Marley, his meaning upon life,” Beasley said, when asked about the significance of the tattoo. “He was so about love and so against hatred.

“Bob Marley was definitely an influential part of my life even though he was gone way before me. I grew up on Bob Marley through my family and through his music and just the ‘One Love’ movement. If we all loved each other, it would be a better place.”

Like Marley, Beasley is known for his kind-heartedness. Also like Marley, Beasley has a rather public association with marijuana. It’s that last reputation that Beasley says he is working to fix in this season-long redemption song of his career. Beasley, who is playing under a nonguaranteed contract with the Heat, is starting to show signs that — finally — he might be figuring things out.


 
(PHOTO CREDIT: MIAMI HERALD)