Speaker 1: Pat Beverley.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite players in the NBA. Great story grinder,
Speaker 2: shit talker, extraordinary, officially an LA laker.
Speaker 1: We've talked about that, how is it going to work?
Speaker 2: We wanted to know, how is he going to assimilate
Speaker 2: into this very dysfunctional team.
Speaker 1: We wanted to know.
Speaker 2: Well, it hasn't taken him long to start rattling some cages.
Speaker 2: Traded from Minnesota to Utah then flipped to LA. At
Speaker 2: his press conference, a reporter asked him or scrum I guess,
Speaker 2: asked him what's it gonna be like to play with
Speaker 2: Braun and ad his response, what they're gonna be playing
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 1: I made the playoffs last year. They didn't. That's the difference.
Speaker 2: Oh god, oh my goodness. If you don't remember, this
Speaker 2: is the one who stood on the table like his
Speaker 2: name was Jalen Suggs after hitting a half court shot
Speaker 2: to go to the National championship game. That was the
Speaker 2: energy that Pat BEV was bringing to the room. And
Speaker 2: I get it the Wolves. This was a playing game too.
Speaker 2: This was still one more playing game to go to
Speaker 2: get into the playoffs. Jumping on the table screaming, some
Speaker 2: people can't stand Pat Bev. A lot of people can't
Speaker 2: stand him, but that's because he's actually never played for
Speaker 2: a team that they root for.
Speaker 1: Pat Bev.
Speaker 2: If you are a fan of the team that he's on,
Speaker 2: you love him. He's a pest, He's a troll, a
Speaker 2: world class troll. And over the last five seasons, here's
Speaker 2: a stat that I did not know until today. He's
Speaker 2: allowed the second lowest fuel goal percentage as the closest
Speaker 2: defender in the entire NBA minimum two thousand shots defended
Speaker 2: at forty one point nine percent, only six tenths of
Speaker 2: a percentage behind the number one.
Speaker 1: Who's the number one? Yannis? What maybe the most surprising
Speaker 1: stat in the entire NBA.
Speaker 2: If you haven't spent too much time evaluating Pat Bev,
Speaker 2: maybe Pat Bev should give those stats to Russell Westbrook
Speaker 2: because Russell Westbrook, if you remember, through serious shade at him,
Speaker 2: and that's that right there, probably one of the least why,
Speaker 2: one of the least likely people in the league might
Speaker 2: just be the one to change the culture of the Lakers.
Speaker 2: And it started not just in that scrum, but pretty
Speaker 2: much the second he got off the train.
Speaker 1: And Pat Burt Bev's first huge.
Speaker 2: Media availability session where all the reporters coming into a room.
Speaker 1: There's a desk, there's water, there's cameras.
Speaker 2: He walks into the room and says hello, everybody, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp,
Speaker 2: and just as a quick aside, reporters are miserable. It's
Speaker 2: probably like eight am. And usually when athletes speak to you,
Speaker 2: it's just kind of like not real. They don't actually
Speaker 2: mean anything by it, they just do it. But Pat Bev,
Speaker 2: when he got crickets back, was not having any of
Speaker 2: that bullshit.
Speaker 1: No he was not.
Speaker 2: So he said it again and said hello everybody, and
Speaker 2: then proceeded as he got up to the post. This
Speaker 2: is him walking in the door as he got to
Speaker 2: the podium. He decided to school them on the etiquette
Speaker 2: of just being a human being. Hey, when it's good
Speaker 2: it's morning, we say good morning. When it's night, we
Speaker 2: say good night. Understand, So say hello. We're a family, right, okay,
Speaker 2: so say hello. Holy shit. And I saw the actual
Speaker 2: footage of this. Some of the other reporters were taking
Speaker 2: phone the phone footage and one of them responded.
Speaker 1: Sheesh, so things are getting a little uncomfy already.
Speaker 2: In day two, But the big question is how were
Speaker 2: Patrick Beverly and Russell Westbrook going to cohabitate because they
Speaker 2: pretty much hate each other. It dates back to twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: if you don't remember, when Beverly crashed into Russ's knee
Speaker 2: trying to play a swiper in a late April game
Speaker 2: and that actually ended westbrook season, and I took.
Speaker 1: That personally meme. Beef then ensued.
Speaker 2: Beef then got worse in twenty eighteen in the playoffs
Speaker 2: when Russ did the hole rock the baby gesture every
Speaker 2: time that he scored on Pat Bev, and Bev then
Speaker 2: try to take out his legs also kind of whacked
Speaker 2: it Russell Westbrook rock the baby because he did that
Speaker 2: to Dame too, and then Dame sent his ass home.
Speaker 2: So fine anyway, escalated again in November twenty nineteen when
Speaker 2: Russ was asked about Beverly's d's defense not the other D,
Speaker 2: in a postgame presser and gave us this gem, Pat
Speaker 2: Beverly trick y'all man like he plays defense. He don't
Speaker 2: guard nobody, man, He's just running around doing nothing. And
Speaker 2: Pat Bev waited to respond, waited to respond until this
Speaker 2: last offseason when he finally did oh boy. In the
Speaker 2: midst of Russ's famous struggles banging shot after shot after
Speaker 2: shot after shot off the side of the backboard, Beverly tweeted,
Speaker 2: I remember when somebody said all I do is run
Speaker 2: around and trick y'all? Well, my boy is the real
Speaker 2: magician this year. Then, to top it off, he tweeted,
Speaker 2: ain't no fun when the Rabbits got the gun?
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: And right before he got traded this off season, Pat
Speaker 2: Bev went on JJ Reddick's podcast and said that Russ
Speaker 2: damaged his career. Coaching staffs, players, fans, they look at
Speaker 2: me way different now, he said, So the first question,
Speaker 2: obviously in the presser is not hey, Pat Beth, how
Speaker 2: much do you love la Now? It's really what's up
Speaker 2: with you in Russell Westbrook now that you guys are
Speaker 2: team mates. Very diplomatic non Pat Bev answer, He said, well,
Speaker 2: I was asked the same question two or three years
Speaker 2: ago about someone that I always wanted to play with.
Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook was the first name.
Speaker 2: A player with that competitive spirit, that fire, that will,
Speaker 2: that dog, that nastiness, that grit. To have a running
Speaker 2: mate like that, I've never had that, so I'm super
Speaker 2: excited to see where it goes. You've never had that
Speaker 2: you play with Kawhi Leonard, You've never had that you.
Speaker 1: Play with Aunt Edwards. Pause, que up and that's a lie,
Speaker 1: And that is just a lie.
Speaker 2: Pat Bev trying to change cultures everywhere that he goes,
Speaker 2: and in a lot of ways, Pat Beverly, you could
Speaker 2: see as like a veteran line cook brought in to
Speaker 2: change a failing restaurant filled with superstar chefs. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna put up with any of their bullshit. He's gonna
Speaker 2: make sure they're always sharp, no packets of cigarettes.
Speaker 1: On the oven.
Speaker 2: He's gonna bitch when their stations aren't clean, and he's
Speaker 2: damn well gonna make sure that they're all there for
Speaker 2: family dinner. He said, Yes, I've been watching the Bear.
Speaker 2: Back to the Bear, been watching the Bear. Tremendous series.
Speaker 1: He says this.
Speaker 2: If you can't have those tough conversations amongst each other
Speaker 2: ahead of time, you're damn sure not gonna be able
Speaker 2: to have them in front of twenty thousand people when
Speaker 2: the crowd is going against you. So my thing's always
Speaker 2: been camaraderie, team, team, team, and if you do that
Speaker 2: and play hard. You just let the dominoes fall wherever
Speaker 2: they fall. From there, and if the Lakers can convince
Speaker 2: Lebron James and Russell Westbrook to play.
Speaker 1: Defense, I don't know. All I know the Lakers aren't
Speaker 1: gonna be good, we know that, but
Speaker 2: They did get way one hundred percent more interesting