The Miami Heat have high hopes for rookie forward Michael Beasley as he enters his first season in the league.

"Michael can flat-out do it all," Dwyane Wade said. "He's one of those players who does things in practice you've never seen. His athleticism, his skill level, it's just there. He'll be able to come in and play right away."

Beasley has admitted that he knows he needs to mature on the floor and as a man.

"I'm a really nice guy," Beasley said. "I don't know why everybody thinks that I'm a jerk, that I have character issues, that I don't care about the team, that I don't work hard. Honestly, I don't know where people get that from. I love kids. I love seeing little kids smile. That makes me smile. The worst thing I did was coming up through high school I wrote on a black car with a black marker."