The NBA fined the Minnesota Timberwolves $50,000 and the team's president of basketball operations David Kahn an additional $50,000 for "inappropriate" and "detrimental" comments Kahn made about newly acquired forward Michael Beasley's marijuana use.

"Michael Beasley smoked too much pot in Miami, but he's a changed man now," Kahn told St. Paul's KSTP radio station in an an interview on July 22. "Make that, changed young man. He's a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana and has told me that he's not smoking anymore and I told him that I would trust him as long as that was the case.

"He developed a really good support system around him this past season in Miami. He is growing up - he's not grown up. He's 21. If you'd given me this kind of money and put me in this kind of world with these kinds of pressures attached to it and some of the demands, I don't know how well I would've handled it. I think that if Michael was 25 or 26, maybe I would've felt differently. Some of these kids simply deserve the opportunity to make mistakes and grow up."

Beasley's pot use became an issue after he was drafted out of Kansas St. by Miami with the second overall pick by in 2008. At the league's rookie orientation, he and two others were accused of smoking marijuana in a hotel room. Beasley was fined $50,000. In 2009, he entered a rehab program in Houston.

After acquiring LeBron James and Chris Bosh, Miami traded Beasley to Minnesota on July 12 for two draft picks. In two seasons with Miami, the 6-10 hoopster averaged 14.3 ppg and 5.9 rpg.

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