Former NBA player Michael Beasley is opening up about losing his mother to cancer while he was playing for the Los Angeles Lakers - and claimed she lied to him about the severity of her illness. His mom, Fatima Smith, died in 2018, the same year Beasley, 37, signed with the Lakers for the final campaign of his NBA career. Before the season, he said, his brother went to visit her and discovered her condition was far worse than she let on. "He showed me the side she wasn't showing us," he told host Shannon Sharpe on the Wednesday, April 22, episode of his "Club Shay Shay" podcast.