Intern Michael Schwartz, is a USC student and a writer for the school’s paper, the Daily Trojan.

When the Miami Heat begrudgingly drafted Michael Beasley, did anyone think “this is going to turn out well?”

Beasley experienced an expected amount of hiccups during his rookie year, given that he was playing in a system that was ill-fitted for skill set and had to deal with the no-nonsense Pat Riley and a rookie coach. If there’s one word you’d use to characterize Beasley, it might be nonsensical. [Ed. Also, chill.]

Things seemed to click late in the year for Beasley (averaged 20.6 ppg and 8.6 rpg in his last eight regular season games), but his rookie season was largely viewed as a disappointment. Bill Simmons even went so far as to call him “a colossal disappoint and semi-fraud.€ Little bit early to be giving up on a 20-year-old, eh Sports Guy?

The offseason has been just as hard for B-Eazy. Most recently, he was left off the list of invitees to USA Basketball’s Olympic training camp. Fellow draft classmates Derrick Rose, O.J. Mayo, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love, D.J. Augustin and Jerryd Bayless all received invites. Bayless couldn’t get off the bench in the first or last month of the season in Portland; he only got on the court for garbage time in the first round of the playoffs.

An earlier rumor that the Grizzlies turned down the Heat’s offer of Beasley for the No. 2 pick would have been the low point for Beasley because 1) It would have meant that the Heat thought the former No. 2 pick was only worth the second pick in an admittedly weak draft and 2) the Grizzlies didn’t think he was worth that much and passed. But the Heat have refuted that rumor, saying they were the ones approached with the offer and turned it down, so all is right in the world of NBA rumors.

But a change of scenery might be best for Beasley, and it got me thinking where he would fit in best.

Whenever the Bosh-to-Miami rumors are brought up, he’s frequently mentioned as a core piece of the package going back to Toronto. It would certainly be interesting to see him running with Jose Calderon, but there’s no telling if this is a trade that will simply have to exist on fans’ editions of NBA 2k9.

Tim Kawakami said he heard the Warriors might look into Beasley as a target if the Amare deal falls through, but it seems like any talks are in their infancy at this point. It would be great to see Beasley playing in that system, but wouldn’t that require the Warriors to move Anthony Randolph, which would be a dealbreaker? Beasley and Randolph couldn’t play together, lest the two of them and the Warriors’ tiny backcourt wanted to get shredded by wings.

But hey, it’s the Warriors, so maybe defense isn’t really a concern.