K-Stated

But not how you think.

You’ve seen the footage by now – if not, here’s the video – of the former Kansas State star and Miami Heat rookie being denied entry into a Miami nightclub.

He’s only 19. Everyone else in his party, including Kansas alum and fellow Heat rookie Mario Chalmers, was legal.

Reached this morning for response, his mother, Fatima Smith, laughed.

“My poor baby,” she said.

She was disappointed in her son – not for hoping bouncers would look the other way and allow him inside their establishment, but because he was looking a little ragged.

“He needs a haircut,” Smith said. “I was so mad at him. I was hoping he got his hair cut before he went to the ESPYs.”

Speaking of which, Beasley didn’t claim the category in which he was nominated, Best Male College Athlete. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was honored instead of North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough and Beasley.

Smith was trying to find out if her son won – the show will air Sunday night on ESPN – in between running errands in D.C. She’ll be house-hunting in Miami tomorrow – as well as attending a birthday party there for D.C. Assault head man Curtis Malone – and she’s just now beginning to realize her son is a celebrity.

The TMZ.com video opened her eyes, as did a recent phone call from Alonzo Mourning.

“A number I didn’t recognize popped up on my phone and I usually don’t answer those,” Smith said. “But I did, and this deep voice says, ‘Can I speak to Fatima Smith?’ He said, ‘This is Alonzo Mourning,’ and I told him I was so honored. He said, ‘No, I’m honored.’

“He’s such a down-to-earth person… So amazing.”

Beasley played in Mourning’s summer charity game recently, on the court with much of the NBA’s elite. Smith still can’t believe her son is in such company, but if he is, she only has one request.

“All I want him to do is get a haircut,” she said.