According to the Kansas City Star, ESPN's initial report concerning the Darrell Arthur-Mario Chalmers weed and women bust at the NBA's rookie orientation mentioned a third player at the scene of the crime: #2 pick Michael Beasley. The Star reports Beasley's name has since been scrubbed from ESPN's accounts.Why? Because some combination of police, hotel security and NBA officials decided Beasley wasn't involved in the weed possession. And ESPN's not the only media outlet to scrub Beasley's name: the Palm Beach Post's story on the matter previously cited Beasley, but no longer mentions the Heat rookie.
Why all the secrecy about Beasley? If he was in the room but found to be innocent of wrong-doing ... that's a good sign, something reassuring about him. Any negative suspicion regarding his involvement is only going to be intensified by the whispers resulting from ESPN's backtracking. The only other answer: Beasley wasn't in the room to begin with. In that case, ESPN needs to do more than remove his name from the accounts and hope everyone forgets. It needs to issue a correction and an apology. You can't just disappear mistakes in this age.
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