Nightcap - Hour 1: Luka goes NUTS in return to Dallas, Denver fires their GM & coach, & Pat Bev discusses Ja Morant !

Summary

Club Shay Shay Podcast Summary
Episode: Nightcap - Hour 1: Luka goes NUTS in return to Dallas, Denver fires their GM & coach, & Pat Bev discusses Ja Morant!
Release Date: April 10, 2025

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Introduction of Guest: Pat Beverly

Timestamp: 08:46 - 09:34

NFL legend Shannon Sharpe welcomes Pat Beverly, a seasoned NBA veteran and pro bowler, to the show. Pat expresses his admiration for the podcast and shares his inspiration drawn from Shannon and his partner, OO.

"I'm a big fan of the show. I mean, it's inspirational...translate that to me without diminishing yourself."
— Pat Beverly [09:34]

Luka Doncic's Emotional Trade to the Lakers

Timestamp: 09:33 - 14:48

Shannon Sharpe initiates a discussion on Luka Doncic's recent trade from the Dallas Mavericks to the Los Angeles Lakers. He highlights Luka's emotional reaction post-trade and his outstanding performance in his final game with Dallas.

"Luka was very emotional, but guess what? He was able to control those emotions. 48 points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steals. He was sensational."
— Shannon Sharpe [11:57]

Pat Beverly shares his insights into Luka's emotional state, comparing it to being blindsided in a relationship.

"When you're forced to leave and you're not ready to leave...the emotion is bound to come out."
— Pat Beverly [13:22]

Impact on Dallas Mavericks and Fan Reactions

Timestamp: 16:58 - 17:33

Shannon discusses the financial and fanbase repercussions of trading Luka, citing ESPN reports on the potential nine-figure losses and declining fan engagement.

"Trading Luka will likely cost the team nine figures...the Mavericks appear no closer to making amends with the fan base."
— Shannon Sharpe [16:02]

Pat Beverly reflects on the rarity of trading a generational talent like Luka without personal misconduct.

"A player of this magnitude...based on some personal things they didn't see fit."
— Pat Beverly [19:20]

Team Dynamics and Culture

Timestamp: 32:36 - 37:42

Shannon and Pat delve into the importance of team culture, especially in the context of the Denver Nuggets firing their GM and coach amid poor performance. Pat emphasizes that a strong locker room and clear roles are crucial for success.

"The locker room is the most important. The culture is the most important."
— Pat Beverly [39:08]

Shannon agrees, highlighting strategies like spacing and rebounding that teams like the Warriors utilize effectively.

"Spacing and rebounding are probably the two most incredible things that you have to do."
— Shannon Sharpe [37:13]

Comparisons of LeBron James and Other NBA Legends

Timestamp: 40:35 - 46:23

The conversation shifts to comparing current NBA stars with legends like LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and Michael Jordan. Pat discusses LeBron's work ethic and how players like James Harden and Kawhi Leonard set benchmarks for excellence.

"LeBron James has to go first...he gave me the blueprint of being in the NBA."
— Pat Beverly [89:07]

Shannon adds his perspective on the evolution of the game and the enduring legacy of these athletes.

"What makes it so incredible, Pat, ma'am, is that you got him under contract and he doesn't want to go anywhere."
— Shannon Sharpe [14:48]

Sixers and Joel Embiid's Situation

Timestamp: 93:46 - 100:34

Pat provides a critical analysis of the Philadelphia 76ers' management decisions, particularly focusing on Joel Embiid's injuries and contract implications. He discusses the challenges of maintaining team performance amidst injuries and high expectations.

"If you get rid of Joel, this don't go right."
— Pat Beverly [97:00]

Shannon questions the decision-making around Embiid's participation in the Olympics despite his injury, pondering the balance between personal pride and team investment.

"Do you think he should have played in the Olympics?"
— Shannon Sharpe [95:57]

Player Mentality and Culture in the NBA

Timestamp: 102:37 - 107:00

The discussion turns to the mental and physical conditioning required to excel in the NBA. Pat shares anecdotes about the rigorous training habits of players like LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard, emphasizing the importance of knowing one's role and maintaining discipline.

"Knowing your role helps everybody else out around you."
— Pat Beverly [46:22]

Shannon underscores the significance of mental toughness and adaptability in high-pressure environments.

"Once you know your role, you can thrive...the simpler you keep it, the better you play."
— Shannon Sharpe [29:39]

Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

Timestamp: 107:00 - 111:00

As the episode wraps up, Shannon and Pat reflect on the future of their favorite teams and players, emphasizing the need for strong management and cohesive team culture to navigate the challenges of the NBA.

"We got to fix that locker room, they got to fix the culture..."
— Pat Beverly [97:01]

Shannon reiterates the importance of strategic decision-making in team management to ensure long-term success.

"Once you get that together, you can navigate your way through basketball games."
— Shannon Sharpe [97:00]

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Notable Quotes

• Pat Beverly [09:34]: "Translate that to me without diminishing yourself... That's a big accomplishment. So that's impressive."

• Shannon Sharpe [11:57]: "Luka was very emotional, but guess what? He was able to control those emotions. 48 points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steals. He was sensational."

• Shannon Sharpe [16:02]: "Trading Luka will likely cost the team nine figures...the Mavericks appear no closer to making amends with the fan base."

• Pat Beverly [39:08]: "The locker room is the most important. The culture is the most important."

• Pat Beverly [89:07]: "LeBron James has to go first...he gave me the blueprint of being in the NBA."

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Conclusion

In this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe and Pat Beverly engage in an insightful discussion about recent NBA trades, team dynamics, and the importance of culture and role clarity in achieving success. They analyze the emotional and financial impact of trading a star player like Luka Doncic, delve into the challenges faced by teams like the Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers, and highlight the enduring legacies of NBA legends such as LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard. The conversation underscores the intricate balance between personal decisions and team investments, emphasizing that strong management and a cohesive locker room are pivotal for sustained excellence in the league.

Transcript

[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

All right, listen up taxpayers. It's time for what you all really tuned in to listen to me for financial advice. Tax Season Boost Mobile wants you to turn your tax refund into six months of saving. When you buy six months on their best unlimited plans, Boost will give you another six months for free. That's like six times two divided by one. Carry the A really good deal. They told me I should have been a tax accountant. Well, would you trust me with your money? Well, that's great news because I'm not done yet. Visit Boost Mobile store during tax season and enter to win up to $10,000 to double your refund. Or, if you're really good at math and money stuff like me, pay off what you still owe. Okay, time to take my financial advisor hat off and put on my lawyer hat. Requires upfront payment, tax and fees. Extra terms and exclusion apply. Visit boostmobile.com for full offer terms and suites details. And now I get back to my boring old day job. Head over to your nearest Boost Mobile store and make the most out of your tax refund. Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us. The Lakers win, clinch a playoff spot. One more win in their final three games and they are the number three seed. They win 112 to 97. Luka was very emotional, but guess what? He was able to control those emotions. 48 points, eight rebounds, six assists, four steals. He was sensational. Thank you for joining us for another episode of Nightcap, brought to you by Boost Mobile. Visit your nearest Boost Mobile store or boost mobile mobile.com to join their nationwide 5G network today. Y'all know me. I'm your favorite uncle, Shannon Sharp. My partner, Liberty City's own bingo ring of fame artery, the pro Bowler, the All Pro. That's Chad Ochocinko Johnson. Please make sure you hit that subscribe button. Please make sure you hit the like button and go subscribe to the Nightcap podcast feed wherever you get your podcast from. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your continued support. Because without you, there could be no Nightcap and we would not enjoy the level of success that we do. Make sure you check out Shea by La Portier. We do have it in stock now. If you cannot find it in a city or state near you order it. We'll ship it directly to your door. Please drink responsibly and please stay safe. Go follow my media company page on all of its platforms. Want to thank you again. We've been nominated for six Webby Awards. The Webby Award, Shannon Sharp, best entertainment creator, Best sports creator in Club Shae Shay, best creator slash influencer series, Nightcap, Best sports show, best video series, and best live Podcast recording. I've also. I want to thank all of you guys. I've been nominated for an Emmy Award. Could not have done it without you. Got some stiff competition. I mean, we got some real stiff competition. But just the fact. Yeah, I would love to win the award. I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I wouldn't. But it goes to show you that your support. You'll continue watching all of my stuff. I greatly appreciate that. And it does not go unnoticed, not only by me, but by the voting. Who votes on these very prestigious awards. The link is in our bio. Please go vote. Voting ends April 17th. Go check out my clothing company, Eighty Four. With Eighty Four being spelled out, everything is restocked. The link is pinned at the chat. Supplies are very limited, so once they're gone, they're gone. Please grab yours while supplies. Last tickets for our Not Safe for Work tour went on sale a couple of weeks ago. Our stops are Baltimore, Philly, Charlotte, Louisiana, Miami, nyc, Chicago. We close it out on the road in Detroit. Tickets can be [e-mail] tour that's shay shay media.com tour that link is also pinned in the. In our chat guest lineup is starting to shape up real nice. So hurry out and get your. Hurry up and get your tickets right now. We've got a special guest joining us. He's played a number of years on many different teams. You know him, known as a lockdown defender, but he was Mr. Basketball, if I'm not mistaken, in the state of Illinois. Averaged 33 points a game. But that's what he says. I mean, I ain't seen no. I ain't seen no. No tape. I ain't seen nobody. But that's what he's saying. And I got to take him at his word. He ain't never lied to me before. Never talked to him before either. But, hey, first time in life for everything. Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, Pat Bell. Pat Bell. What to do.

[Pat Beverly]

Thanks for having me, Mr. Ocho. Oh, good to see you, brother. Thank you, guys.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You watched the game.

[Pat Beverly]

Go ahead.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What'd you say, Ocho?

[Unknown]

I'm gonna say I appreciate you joining, man. Listen, I've always been a fan, you know, for. For many years, man. I hadn't had a chance to actually get a chance to sit down and talk to you. Obviously, we supposed to. We were supposed to meet up and talk not too long ago at one of. One of the games, but when we were interrupted. So I'm glad to have you on the show.

[Pat Beverly]

You was. You was at a game, somebody on the other team.

[Unknown]

The Philly game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Philly game, right.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. We were supposed to chop it up then. I appreciate y'all, man. Thanks for having me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Thank you.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm a big fan of the show. I mean, it's. First off, it's, you know, it's inspirational, you know, before we even start the show, just all the ass that you read off that you were part of, to be able to do it now for real. Because if, you know, you know, but we do it with football.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh.

[Pat Beverly]

So, you know, translate that to me without demising yourself. With you, continue being you. That's, that's a. That's. That's a big, big, big accomplishment. So that's impressive.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think our listeners and our viewers, they know when we first started this, OO and I didn't have any ads and OO was getting upset. I said, you know what? OO we're not going to complain about it. We're going to be so good, they gonna have no choice but to come. I say, we know, we know. We do what we do, we do what we good at. We become great at what we're good at. And they're gonna have to come because the people that watch us, the people that listen to us, they're gonna leave them no choice. And slowly but surely we kept building. We kept building. OO and I, we just got better and better. We gave the people what they were looking for. Sports, but we, but the stories is what captivated the people. And so it's not an easy process. People think that you just have a camera and a microphone and everything is okay. It's not quite that simple. And I think people that are trying to get into this business understand there's a lot of work, there's a lot of foundation that has to be laid and cemented before you can start to grow it. But it couldn't be. Well, and that's why I always thank our fans before we start the show and before we end the show. I always thank the fans because it's because of them. You see, OO got that big old sign. Boost Mobile saw the work that we was doing and the views and the mentions and the likes that we were generating, and they thought it was a great combination, and so do we. So we thank all of our sponsors and advertisers and companies that have signed on that believe in not only Nightcap, but Club Shay and everything under the Shay media. So we greatly appreciate that. Pat Bell Tonight, the Lakers win 112 to 97. You, you've been in the NBA a very long time and you've seen a lot of tributes when guys return. I don't know if I've ever seen a tribute where the guy was as emotional as Luka Doncic was. He was literally crying on the sideline, which lets me know he was probably more invested in Dallas than Dallas was invested in him because they chose to move on to a guy that's giving you 28, 8 and 8 over career and averaging 32 in the playoffs. But were you surprised at how emotional he was and how he was able to channel those emotions and go out and do what he did.

[Pat Beverly]

So you as an athlete, like, you know how it is when you first get drafted to a team and you've had failure and you've had success there, like, you were able to get something, you were able to build something, right? Especially us as athletes, whatever the role may be. Him getting emotional may be surprising to a lot of people, but when you're forced to leave and you're not ready to leave, yes. A lot of fans don't know how that feels, right? To getting so close, right? To getting so close to, man, y'all almost won a championship. We're one piece away, two piece away from a championship to get that close and to turn around and be blindsided, right? You know, like, I think it's the smoke error with the communication part, right? I think that was the most like, man, I did everything you guys wanted me to do. You guys couldn't tell me you feel me. So mixed with all that. I mean, the emotion is bound to come out. But, hey, listen, he was emotional before the game and he was emotional in the game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Belt, belt. Ocho, you know, Ocho pad bell. Me and Ocho talk a lot. It's kind of like a relationship. The relationship is most hurtful to the person that doesn't want to leave the relationship. See, if you're ready to get out of a relationship, ain't no skin off your back, you're ready to bounce. But when you're not ready to let said individual be it the man or the woman, is hard and you like, what can I do? Well, in a situation like this, because Luka, they didn't. They, as you mentioned, they blindsided him. It wasn't nothing Luka can do because the trade had already gone through. So now, you know, a lot of times in a relationship with, hey, I'll do this, I'll be better. I won't go out as much with the boys. I'll do this, I'll do that. So it hurts the individual that doesn't want to leave the relationship. But to see him that emotional, Pat Bev. It tells me he did not want to leave, even though he was going to the Lakers, which is one of the probably the most storied franchise at Boston and the Knicks, the most stored franchises in the NBA. Even though he was going there, he's like, bro, this is my home. I think he had just built what just closed on a $15 million pad or something out there in Dallas. He didn't want to leave. And all of A sudden y'all come up with all these reasons. I don't care what it was, bro. Do y'all see the numbers? I just took you to the NBA finals two years ago. We was in the Western Conference finals, and this is what you think of me?

[Pat Beverly]

It's only a couple people. I don't think people understand this. And m oeno it. It's only a couple people that average 32 points in the playoffs.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, him and Jordan.

[Pat Beverly]

And one of them didn't have no. And one of them didn't have no hair on his head. It's only a couple of those.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

And so you know. You know what, Pat? You know what that, like, you gotta listen.

[Chad Ochocinco]

You.

[Unknown]

You know what that tells me, Pat? And I've said it before. If they.

[Pat Beverly]

If.

[Unknown]

If this was a crime, if this trade and Anthony Davis leaving the Lakers and going to Dallas and Luca coming to the. Luca coming to the Lakers, if this was a crime, whoever's responsible for it would get life in jail. That's how. That's how bad this trade was. That's how bad it was. It's ridiculous for Luca to go out there tonight, to have that tribute, to have him cry and be emotional, then to have 31 and a half and finish the game with, what, 48. Unc. He finished with 48.

[Shannon Sharpe]

45.

[Pat Beverly]

Oh, the finish was 45, 45, 86.

[Shannon Sharpe]

With four steals, man, that.

[Unknown]

That's ridiculous. And then every time he touched the ball, you. You playing in Dallas and everybody.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, yeah.

[Unknown]

Then you got. Then you got the chance going on, and then you got the chance about, you know, insulting. Come on. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous, man. It's criminal. The fact that this even went through for a player of that caliber, just based on some personal things that they didn't see fit and giving him the type of money he was going to get in a year or two.

[Pat Beverly]

See, I like to look at it like this, right? We've all seen the stories of when a player leaves and you see fans burning jersey, right? Oh, yeah. You see fans. You got to put security outside to be an athlete. And to see the opposite of that, to see the fans gathered together around the athlete, right? And kind of. And kind of go at the top management. It's refreshing. You feel me? I wouldn't say it's fair. I just say it's refreshing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

This is what's being reported. According to Tim McMahon of ESPN, team sources have said trading Luca will likely cost the team nine figures, hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years. This season, the Mavericks are expected to lose millions due to the dwindling crowds, plummeting merchandise sales, and sponsors severing ties with the franchise. In wake of the trade, numerous fans have canceled their season tickets. And the Mavericks appear no closer to making amends with the fan base than they have that they have deeply hurt this season.

[Unknown]

Well, it's impossible to repair that because.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can't get it back. You can't. You can't get it back because you got to think about it. This is the biggest trade because we've never seen a guy this young, this talented that didn't ask to be traded to get traded. Kareem asked to get traded. Shaq left. There have been other guys. LeBron moved. KD moved. But to trade a guy at 26, averaging 28, 8 and 8, averaging 32 in the playoffs, and you moving. We've never seen anything like this, and we might not ever see it again. Because normally these guys like Luka and LeBron and Steph and the greats Magic and Bird and Kareem and Jordan, they don't come along but once every 15, 20 years. You got him. You got him. The thing what makes it so incredible, Pat, ma'am, is that you got him under contract and he doesn't want to go anywhere. Yeah. And you moving.

[Unknown]

Listen, hey, Pat, you might know better than me, your eyes and your ears are still to the NBA. And do you know if what Luka was doing away from the court, away from the game of basketball? Because the issue definitely had nothing to do with him. What he was doing on the court. Was what he was doing off the court really that bad to justify them moving him? A player of this magnitude that you just said average 32 in the playoffs, and there's only one.

[Pat Beverly]

A few.

[Unknown]

A few people that have been able to do that.

[Pat Beverly]

Was he. What he was doing.

[Unknown]

Was it that bad to really say, you know what, we gonna move on from him and send him to the Lakers and not tell anybody and just deal with the ramifications on the back end.

[Pat Beverly]

So you have to understand. So I spent some time in Europe, and I was able to deal with some really, really, really, really, really good Europeans. Right? And I dealt with a guy named Milos Tear dosage. Milos tear dosage. He had to have a couple cigarettes in his mouth after the game, but that's just how he relaxed, Right? Right. That was his Euro step, right? Everybody got something, right? Everybody got something. So that was his something. I don't know if it was similar to any of that obviously, we've seen the video, he drinking a cold one out. The big win with his pops. Somebody comes over, Mike Finley comes over, take beer out his hand. You know, we hear things about overweight, we hear things about, okay, he keeps getting hurt because right, right, we hit those things, but you really don't see them, right? You don't see him. It's just, you hear. So like, if that, if you can do all of that and that doesn't affect your play and you still showing up, people forget, not only does he show up, he shows up at the biggest lights there is. Every single time. Every single time. Like tonight. Yeah. And it's only y'all know, right, y'all been the Pro Bowls, y'all been in the spotlight.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y'all.

[Pat Beverly]

Y'all know how it is to motherfucker get that catch. You see that light on, you run into. You can't see run no more, right? He's doing, he's doing all that right in front of our eyes. 26 years old, generational talent.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Pat Beverly]

You let go. You let go.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I don't think, you know what? Me personally, I think we use the term generational, but he's a transcendent talent. Transcendent magic. Jordan, Kareem, Lebron, right? The guys that we're going to be talking about for two generations. So our kids, kids gonna be talking about this like, hold on, wait a minute. I mean, the guy had a 60, 20 point, a 60 point, 20 rebound, a 10 assist game.

[Pat Beverly]

He think he dropped Petrovich vibes.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, how many? Like, he's got like what, 40, 40 point games now. It's crazy how great he is. I was telling Ocho, Pat Bell, when I first got in the league, guys used to smoke. All the times I saw Greg Town with the Raiders at halftime, he outside sitting on his helmet, smoking a cigarette. I'm looking, I'm like, it doesn't really happening. Yeah, I mean, there were guys on our team that would, hey, we get a break, they go to the truck and smoke a cigarette or hey, they go fired up. It didn't bother me because they at the front of the line. We doing wind sprints day and first. So, hell, I'm thinking I need to start smoking so I can keep up with the ass.

[Unknown]

Hey, I tell you, listen, I tell you what, based on the Lakers performance tonight, somewhat of a pressure situation, I wouldn't really call it a playoff atmosphere. But I can tell you this, I can tell you this pack. We got Beverly Hills, we got Beverly center, we got Pat Beverly, you know.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Jason Kidd, Billy the Kid. Y'all saw what Luca did.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, and. And see, y'all gotta understand I've played against him, right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

I got trophies. I got trophies at home. A first team, two second teams. I don't just got one trophies. I got a couple.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Okay.

[Pat Beverly]

I guarded him in the playoffs.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, well, you the Clippers.

[Pat Beverly]

Listen when I tell you. And I guarded all of them. You know, I done guarded from Steph Curry's to Kyrie's to LeBron James to me trying to. Trying to guard Yokich in the post. I didn't try to guard everybody. Huh. He was different.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

It's his skill mixed with his ability to put the ball in a basket at a high rate mixed with elite iq. If this work, I'm gonna keep doing it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It don't work, right? On April 18th, centers are coming. From Oscar nominated filmmaker Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and Creed, starring Michael B. Jordan, comes the motion picture event of the year. Twin brothers Smoke and Stack, both played by Michael B. Jordan, return to their hometown for a fresh start, only to discover that an unspeakable evil is waiting to welcome them back. Don't miss the genre bending thrill ride. Shot with IMAX film cameras, Centers arrive only in theaters on April 18th. Rated R under 17 not admitted without.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Parent when it's tip off time at my house, there are a few things that are must haves on my checklist. My fellow friends and fans. Check. My favorite jersey. Check. An iconic drink that's a fan favorite. Check. Hypnotic can turn any cocktail into an iconic creation. With its game changing color and tropical flavor, Hypnotic should be in everyone's starting five. I consider Hypnotic the point guard of my game day roster because not only is it versatile, like having it on the rocks or as a base for cocktails, it also finishes smooth. And just like the banners in my stadium, letting people know that we take championships seriously. Having Hypnotic at my watch parties lets people know that I also take quality seriously since it's crafted with high quality ingredients for a championship level drinking experience. So the next time you need a break from the action with a distinctive timeout, look no further. Grab a bottle of Hypnotic and make your next basketball watch party iconic. Enjoy the vibrant taste with friends and turn every game into a memorable celebration. Hypnotic where every sip is a slam dunk. Hypnotic Liqueur Bardstown, Kentucky 17 alcohol by volume Hypnotic reminds you to think wisely, drink wisely.

[Pat Beverly]

Clorox Centiva smells like lavender.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cleans like Clorox and feels like.

[Pat Beverly]

All right, that could go on for a while.

[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

Y'all about to dribble in front of you, Pat. I'm a poster all day long.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I saw you guys when he was with the Clippers. Early in his career, y'all had elite defenders. You PG Kawhi. And he's still dropping 30 and 4. I'm like, hold on, wait a minute. I mean, Kawhi is a two time defensive player of the year. He's an all NBA defender, Pat. Pg. All NBA defender, Pat. Bev told you his accolade and he got three. He's like, hey, okay, Pat, send me pg. Pg. You better go get Kawhi.

[Pat Beverly]

It was nothing we could do. It was absolutely nothing we can do. It got to a point halfway through the series, like me saying, you know what? Scratch. Just let him score 50. We just go see if anybody else.

[Unknown]

Can beat everybody else.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Huh?

[Pat Beverly]

Oh, yeah, it was trouble. Now he, like you say, he's a different talent. He's a different talent. And. And J.J. redick, I don't think he gets enough credit. I don't think JJ Reddick gets enough credit. The Lakers facing throughout the entire system has to be probably some of the best facing we done seen this season. They have three really good ball handlers and creators. And I'm adding Austin Reeves to that. You can say what they call. Yeah, I'm adding Austin Reeves to that boy. Cahoot.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, they be sleeping on it. They look at it. Cause he white, Pat. Bam. And think he can't.

[Pat Beverly]

He cooking for him. That's how you get killed. And I know y'all know it was one defender that probably guarded y'all or one wide receiver that y'all seen in practice that was like, hey, man, hold on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He different. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Unknown]

And you know, you know what's funny? You know it's funny when watching Luca as well, when you think about all the superstars, when you watch the Kobe's, the Michael Jordans, there's something flashy about their game. There's something flashy about their game. And you can see it, you know, whether it be the skill set. But when I watch Luka, it almost seems as if he's moving in slow motion. When you look at it from tv, it's like, well, that looks so easy. That move was so easy. It's not flashy. But every goddamn thing he does is effective and it goes in half the damn time.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I think the thing is, what you talk about when you talk about those guys, Pat Bevin, correct me if I'm wrong, when you talk about the elite, the one thing they had was supreme athleticism. We see Luka now, we see Jokic and you like I know right now, with two repaired hips and a bad knee, I cannot jump Luka and Jokic. I bet you my vert higher than both of those. But I tell you what, you not going to speed them up. They're going to go at their pace. And as Pat Bell said, they know how to put the ball in the basket at a supreme level over and over and over again. And because they can pass wherever you bring the double team from, they know where that man that left to come, double him. They know where he has on the court. So now they can snap past it. You see Luka do this all the time. He go and he passes behind his head because he knows there's a guy over there or he'll clear cross court. And when you got him, you got LeBron High IQ and you got Austin Reeves. As Pat Bell said, that can handle the ball and can pass out of Austin Reeves. Not get the third defender, your third best defender gotta guard Austin Reeves. Cause your two best defenders, they better. One better take Luka and The other take LeBron. And you hope and pray they have an off night, because if they don't, you got nothing.

[Pat Beverly]

Nothing, nothing. Absolutely nothing. The defending off the bench from the wing position is really good. Their ability to get to generate great shots. Not, not, not, not. I'm a dribble 15 times and I'm a shooter. Step back right. You might see that from Luca from time to time. But they're to get the paint by posting by. By playing without dribbling. Is proud of himself.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Pat, your. Your. Your wi fi glitchy. I want to read this. The Mavs tried to line up sponsorship deals with a few of Luca brand partners. For tonight's game. But Lucas Camp rejected the idea. Team sources told ESPN that the Mavs had also lined up a lucrative sponsorship deals for Wednesday's game with multiple companies that Doncic endorses. But those deals fell apart after Doncic camp declined to give his blessing, pointing noted that he now plays for the Lakers. I mean, you got. You got some. You got some eight figure deal. And Luke said, nah, I'm good. I don't give a damn how mad I am. You mean to tell me you got eight figures for your boy? Let me get at that. I'm getting. I'm getting all 10 deals. All deals that start with 10 and go upwards.

[Pat Beverly]

I got to have that, I got.

[Unknown]

That, I got to have that.

[Pat Beverly]

Gotta have that, gotta have that. Definitely gotta have that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. But these are the type of deals that can set you back for a long period of time. Now, I think they're going to be okay. You got to think about it now without Kyrie. Now you get Kyrie back. Who. The supreme scorer, who will be unbelievable with AD in the pick and roll. I think they're going to be okay. I think they're going to be okay, Pat. I really do. But yeah, Luca, man, I just. I just.

[Pat Beverly]

From. From a. From a. From a standpoint of. From a standpoint of like, okay, we see the trade, we hear the fire Nico, but we in his defense, right? Cause everybody had a day, right? Every. Everybody had a day in his defense. How does this look five years from now? Right? How does this look five years from now? Like, we seen how it looked before Kyrie got hurt. Before Kyrie got hurt, they didn't lose a game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

Right. I mean, so. So it was just bad timing. It was. It was a lot of bad luck and a lot of bad timing with that. You know, the trade happened then damn near the whole team go down, you know, so. But we gotta. Everybody got their day.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Let's. Let's see, let's see. Two to three. The question is, are they gonna give Nico. Because, look, people keep blaming Nico. Pat, Bev, you know, this a deal of this magnitude, you going all the way to the top. This is what we got. Now next year, this year or next year, we're gonna have to give this man a supermax contract, which is five years, $345 million.

[Pat Beverly]

You give it to him expeditiously.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I agree. See, A.D. i told you is gonna want a three year deal at a supermax number at 193. Maybe.

[Pat Beverly]

You wait one second.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You wait.

[Pat Beverly]

We got. We gotta Take care of some over here first. Okay. Because at a time, AD was taken care of first and somebody else had to wait.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Correct?

[Pat Beverly]

Right, Right. So that's the pecking order.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And you got Kyrie. Kyrie coming up, too.

[Pat Beverly]

Okay, well, at the. Luca, Kyrie, we go get to you, ad. We go get to you after that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

We talk about pecking order, though.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

This is if. If. If all of us is GMs, I believe that, though.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That'd be Luca, right?

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Exact same way.

[Pat Beverly]

Hold on.

[Unknown]

If all of us was GMs, Luca would still be in Dallas.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm talking about we.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We'll be.

[Pat Beverly]

We'll be trying to decide what new blue. We go well in our jerseys.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look here, if I got Luca, he could come in with a keg. I put his ass in the game. Hey, as a matter of fact, he want to smoke. Well, you can't smoke in the building. But I'm saying, hey, I'm gonna have a designated area. Hey, Luca, go get you a couple of pools. Hey, get a man a vaping pen or something.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, pen.

[Unknown]

And I'm gonna have some beer waiting for him after every game. What beer you want?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, baby.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, but so. But we still got time to see. We gotta see how Nico, you know, he pulled this off, he might pull something else out of the sleeve. So you gotta get. Everybody got their day. So he gonna have his day. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Pat, as I mentioned earlier, if the Lakers win one more of their final three games, they get the number three seed. The scenario. What would be the worst first round matchup for the Lakers? Would it be the Clippers? Would it be the Warriors? Would it be the Nuggets? Would it be the Grizzlies or Minnesota? Who do you think the worst case scenario matchup for them would be?

[Pat Beverly]

So it was different from a long. Like, from a long time, it was different. I felt like the older LeBron got, the younger the league got. And everybody just kept picking on the Lakers, picking on the Lakers, picking on the Lakers, Right? Taking advantage. Right. Taking advantage of the Lakers. I ain't gonna lie. This might be one of the. Cause, you know, you get that team in the playoffs, it ain't about schemes, ain't about plays. It's all about size. It's all about matchups.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

Right. Half court said it's all about size and matchups. Who can generate the most points. Half court. What the Lakers can do with the.

[Shannon Sharpe]

With those.

[Pat Beverly]

With that team, with that. With those three ball handlers. I think they a mismatch for everybody. In the West. No one. No one in the west can guard Luke.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, Nobody.

[Pat Beverly]

We've seen it. Like, we've seen it. We've seen it in Phoenix when they got them out of there. We seen it like, we. Okay. Come on, Minnesota. Rudy Goldberg, player of the year. Oh, y'all young, too. All right, come here, let me holler at you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

We singed it. You saw what he did to OKC last year. We've seen it.

[Pat Beverly]

Like, it ain't. Like it's a surprise. Like, we actually watched it on TV. Like, damn, Luka done gave him 30 again. Like, we've seen it. So, like, I think the Lakers might be that. I think the Lakers are that team. I think they're a bad. No one wants to see the Lakers.

[Unknown]

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Now, Pat, now listen, I've heard, I've heard many discrepancies when it comes to the Lakers about their, their, their, them not having a big. Do you not see or worry about them not having it big when they face certain teams, especially the team that unnamed and only being able to go small? And when they do have to go big, LeBron sometimes having to go down to the five, Jackson, Hayden not playing as many minutes at the five and sometimes being in foul trouble.

[Pat Beverly]

So my thing is this. LeBron is naturally, at the age he is and how his body is made up, he's naturally a 4,5ish type anyway, right now, right? Because the league is changing, right? Not because of skill set, because the league is changing, right? He can be the backup 4, he can be the backup 5 on any, any really good team, right? My thing is, it's, it's ways to defend the rim without having a shot blocker.

[Shannon Sharpe]

If you, if you got, if you.

[Pat Beverly]

Tighten that, if you tighten those gaps up and you make these teams shoot threes ball don't get in the paint. If you got these defenders like Rui. And Rui was great tonight, by the way.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Big body, phenomenal.

[Pat Beverly]

He was phenomenal. You talk about Benny Smith Jr. You talk about Vanderbilt, right? You talk about these wings. They all look the same size. They all dive on the floor. They all got a little muscle and a little gristle to them, right? You talk about these guys. You don't need rim, you don't need rim protection. If they can't get to the paint, you don't need rim protection.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And the thing is, you're going to get great in the half court. You're going to get great shots because eventually, and you saw this Tonight, you saw this against okc. You see this a lot. They gonna blitz Luka. They gotta get. They gonna make him give it up. If you don't, he gonna punish you. There's not a defender that can deal with Luka one on one. You gotta make him give it up. And you'll find out early on how soon you're gonna have to make him give it up. Because he's gonna test him because he gonna shoot a couple of step backs early to see if he can feel it. Now, when you defend that, now, he gonna get by you, he gonna stop you gonna rear end him, and he gonna be and one. So you, soon you'll start blitzing, making him give it up. But he's giving the ball up to LeBron James. He's giving the ball up to Austin Reaves. Let that sink in for the first time. LeBron James is going to go into a playoff series and he's the second best player on his team. And it took it 22 years for it to happen. Pat Bell. But now he's the second best player on the team.

[Pat Beverly]

And that's not because LeBron is a lack of talent or anything. Right? Right. That's not because of that. That's just because they have some other really good playmaking over there. Luka. Legit, right? And people don't understand when it comes to basketball like spacing, and especially in the playoffs, spacing and rebounding are probably the two most incredible things that you have to do. Rebounding, like I break it down in football terms, you get hand on that ball, that ball get loose, you can't drop ball, you can't fumble ball. Not this game.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right?

[Pat Beverly]

Not this game. You could get away with it. I don't care how you do get away with it, but this game, you can't do it. Rebounding is exactly the same way. So if you double teaming loop, right, you got two guys on him, he passes out to a guy who misses a three. Now you're rebounding the shot. Yeah, right, that's, that's the, that's the, the, the, the, the, the give you get from, from, from trapping, okay? You guys might trap. We might. You might have to shoot a shot that a guy can't shoot, but we go get a good rebound. Now because y'all space that stuff, right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Those who know basketball, that's what the, that's what the warriors do. See, people think because the warriors are small, they can't rebound it. Well, if you just playing conventional basketball, you would be absolutely correct. But because they shoot the three. And now you're scrambling because they swing the ball and you trying to run somebody off, you're out of position. The ball goes up. Now you scrambling now, Moody, Pod. Draymond. Moody, Draymond. All those guys are getting rebounds. And you like, well, damn, this little ass team out rebounding us by 10. You look up, you're like, damn, we got our rebounded by this small ass team. Yes. And because like you said, they got three guys that could pass. And the thing is, if the Lakers. Look, normally when the bench gives them like 20 points, the Lakers are hell to beat. Because you know you're going to get at least somewhere between 75 and maybe 90 from the big three. Yeah, you're going to get that if you get 20.

[Pat Beverly]

Yep, agreed.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They're going to be hard to beat. They're going to be hard to beat. And really, if you go back and look at the west, the only big. The only one team that has a big that could punish the Lakers. And that's Yoke.

[Pat Beverly]

That's it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm not worried about. Look, I'm not worried about Hardenstein. I'm not worried about Chad. I'm not worried about. I'm not worried about anybody big in the west other than Yoke. The question is, the problem with Denver is that seemed like when Jamar Murray get to the playoffs, he like, oh, I'm supposed to be Magic Johnson. I'm supposed to be one of these all time historic, great guards. And he goes crazy, especially against the Lakers.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, yeah. But I think. I think this year, though, I ain't gonna lie to you, I think this year, y'all know, we all athletes, like, we all. We all have done it. I don't care how good your team is, if there's any type of dark cloud, any type of negative energy. Right? Right. You lose a coach, it takes a lot of more energy to be focused on. Okay, let's win a championship. Right, right, right. A famous coach, Doc Rivers, told me, he said, pat, I do basic stuff because I want my players to understand the better they understand, the better they cannot be players and just be athletes. Right. So you got this guy firing you, hearing the new voice. Now, you guys know the new voice don't sound like the old voice.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

They don't sound like coach. I can't run up to him and, hey, coach, check it up. I see an opening right here. Like, it's just different. So that takes time. Right? So I wouldn't be surprised if Denver was out of their first round. I ain't gonna lie to you. First round. First round. I ain't gonna lie. I mean, with that going around, I mean, that's just how the basket. That's how the sports gods are, right? You know, you disrespect the game, you fire a coach like that in the playoffs. This ain't a Cinderella story. They ain't just gonna beat everybody. Like, they gonna be put to test. They gonna be put to test.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You mentioned head coach Mike Malone and the general manager, Calvin Booth was terminated. ESPN reported that the tension had been brewing between Booth and Malone for quite some time. So so much source that the source described it as a cold war. Denver had lost four straight and was just 11 and 13 since the All Star break. Players such as Yoke have displayed frustration on the sideline. Vibes have been low, according to a source. There's another report that said Westbrook's minutes were a part of the riff. It's reported that Booth was questioning, bro, why are you playing Westbrook when you should be playing? I forget the younger guy's name.

[Pat Beverly]

Pickett.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's his name?

[Pat Beverly]

Pat. Her last name is Pickett.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep, yep, yep. That's it. And so you look at. Yo, he's giving you 45, 13 and 10. And they lost all three. He gave you a 60 point triple double, a 40 point triple double. And he was an assist short of a triple double on the 38 point game. So he gave you 45, 13 and 10 over three games, man. And they lost all three games.

[Pat Beverly]

So my thing is this. It goes back to. We was talking about Dallas, right. I don't think this is a problem that was just been brewing this year. I think the problem was lost after they won the championship and they didn't pay Bruce Brown, right? You lose, you lose your.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right.

[Pat Beverly]

I wouldn't say he was the heart and soul, but you lose a little grit, right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

If things get hard, you need a little bit more grit. Okay, cool. They was able to sustain that. Right. Then the following year, they came up short. They lost to Minnesota. And actually the year before, Bruce Brown had a stellar. He got paid off that Minnesota series. Then coming in free agency, you lose Caldwell Pope, right. You talk about. Now you done lost. And as a team, you need the locker room. The locker room is the most important. Right. The culture is the most important. And. And the ability to win games. And the real games is not based on the star players. It's based off the culture. That's what makes them so good. Right. So you lose these two guys Right. You try to fill a void with Chris Brown. You try to fill a void with Watson. You try these young guys pick it. Right. And then you want to go get Russ. Right. You're surprised it doesn't work now. And now you have to point blame at somebody. You talking about they beat us 31 in the bubble?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

We was supposed to play the uncle. You know that team we had, we.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Was supposed to Lakers. Y'all had a three one. Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, they beat us three one. So I'm able to see this, this team up close and personal. I'm able to see this coach up close and personal. Right. Elite coach. I honestly think he overachieved in Denver. Overachieved. And to be able to come down there, implement your system, right, Have a two time MVP that's selfless. Usually the MVP is like, no, give me the rock, I'm shooting a fade away. Aha. I'm doing this. I'm talking about a selfless mvp. Right. And you don't make the moves you're supposed to make in free agency. And you wonder why your team is not the same team. It baffles me. It actually baffles me, Pat.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I was wondering, did you hear what James Harden said, the reason why they're having success? He says. Well, he said personnel. He said personnel. There's only two guys that's not there. And I don't know what he was trying, what was he trying to say? Because the only thing is personnel. I don't need to say anything else. Yes.

[Pat Beverly]

This thing was like, everyone knows their roles. Right. And as a, and, and, and, and as a player who's, you know, I didn't have a cup of tea. I spent 12, 13 years in the NBA. Right, right. So like knowing your role and for me to be, you know, the ultimate role player. Right. Knowing your role helps everybody else out around you. Right. Not only do you know your role now, you can thrive in your role.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Correct.

[Pat Beverly]

Right. Okay, cool. I know, I know. My role on this team is strings, rebound. And if I get it, you know, I get it in the corner, I'mma shoot it. That's my role. I'mma stay in my role now. I'mma thrive in my role. Right. He had guys over there, obviously the Paul George. We can name the Paul George, the Russell Westbrook, the PJ Tucker. Remember PJ Tucker was Bones island also.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

Remember they went through that whole debacle with Ty L. They were arguing and they were, you know, warm part of the team here. Can't forget those guys. Also, all that mixed together again talked about it's hard to win games like that, man. You got so much. You got so much bad going around. You can't basketball how?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause you got James Harden. Look, it seems to be like James Harden is going to be James Harden.

[Pat Beverly]

Hard to focus. Kawhi is back healthy.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Kawhi's back healthy. Zoobox is playing unbelievable. I still Magic, my guy. I love Magic. Magic was out of his mind for trading Mike Moscala for Zubots. Can you imagine Zubots with LeBron and Luca or Zubots with AD and Braun? Because now. Now Luca, now, AD could have slid to the four like he wanted to play. Leave Zube at the five. Can you imagine what that would? I only want. Let's not talk about things that what could have been.

[Pat Beverly]

No, I was there when we traded for Big Zoo. I was there. Hey, man, Pat, you getting this big center in? I mean, where you from, man? Tell me he from, man. He from overseas, Pat, man, I bring him in. Big Zoo, man had a box haircut. Yeah, I got him right, huh? Hey, man, no. Put some swag on you, man. Yeah. Unbutton your shirt. Take your chest out. I got Zoo right top. Top four center in the NBA right now.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He played like it. I mean, he's had a 3020 game. A 20, 20 game. Zoob is playing. And guess what? He can get his points. And you don't run not one, playboy. Not one. They don't say, hey, Zoo, go down there. What hand you want on? You want to left. Get on the right block. I'm gonna throw it here. Go down to the left. I'm gonna throw it down. All he does. Hey, James Harden, layoff. Oh, he get it off the rim. Put it back. I'm not running anything for him. So now I get James Harden. Do what you do, Kawhi. Do what you do. Like you said, know your role. Ocho knew every game. I'm number one receiver. I'm gonna get my catches. I'm gonna get my 10 targets. Now, Ocho ain't gotta think I. Hey, I ain't.

[Pat Beverly]

Oh, hold on.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I ain't got but one target. Okay, the next three quarters, I'm gonna get at least three. A quarter, maybe four. So when you know your role, like you said, Pat, when you know your role, yeah, you can thrive. And the simpler you keep it, you don't have to think. I can just let my athletic ability take over. I take my athletic ability over anybody that play. I'm playing against, right?

[Pat Beverly]

And that's with anything, right? That's with life, right? And the minute you start to merge to the left lane, you know that ain't your lanes stuff start all you start to hit that little gravel. No Stan your lane young man. You try to merge in the right lane. You hear that horn? No man, somebody behind you real quick. Stay in your lane, man. You stay in your lane. Good things happen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

Rondo recently said he holds no hard feelings towards Ray Allen and wasn't responsible for not inviting Ray to the Celtics reunions. Pat Ocho, will KG and Truth Paul Pierce, will they ever bear the hatchet? Is this thing gonna ever go away? You won a championship. What's going on, Pat?

[Pat Beverly]

No, I don't think so. Right. I don't know personally what, what went down in that locker room when that happened. Right? So I, I, I, you know, and it's just speaking off just being a basketball player, I think it's deep. I think it's deeper than, than what people saying. I think it's a little bit more to it. It has to be.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn.

[Pat Beverly]

It has to be. It has to be not, you know, to hold a grudge that long. At that age, you can be young, hold a grudge, but to be. You talking about in your 40s now, you feel me? Like, you feel me? It has to be something.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And you won a championship. It wasn't like y'all got close, and he left when y'all was on the cusp. You hadn't won a championship. You had been to another. And, you know, I mean, come on, now, you give a choice. Let's see, you gonna stay there and play with Ticket and Truth and Rondo, or you gonna go play with D. Wade, Chris Bosh, and LeBron. I'm giving you a choice.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm gonna go play with D. Wade. LeBron, Chris Bosh.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Exactly. Ocho, you was down there in Miami. So, you know, think about, you got LeBron, and that was LeBron at his apex. Oh, yeah, that was that. In the crescendo, you got D. Wade slashing. You got Chris Bosh, who sacrificed the most because Chris Bosh was a 2010 guy. People don't realize, Pat Bell, how great Chris Bosh was when he was in Toronto.

[Pat Beverly]

He was, hey, you know, I got, I got drafted to the Heat.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Oh, did you?

[Pat Beverly]

Margaret, The Yale was LeBron James rookie. Okay. Chris Bosh was the second best skilled player on the team.

[Unknown]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

The stuff he was doing in practice and. Okay, you can ask Adonis Haslam, juwan Howard, Jamal McGlory. Not Jamal, big Cat. The guy. One of the coaches in Toronto. I forgot his name. You can go down the list for the guys that was there. What he was doing to people in practice. I haven't seen a four man ever do that to nobody.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Nobody.

[Pat Beverly]

He was destroying people in practice every single day. Every day. I'm a rookie, huh? I'm looking at Mike Miller, I'm looking at Carlos Arroyo pulling up in red Ferraris. And LeBron James he270. And I'm looking at D. Wade.

[Unknown]

I'm rookie.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm in there like, oh, okay. That's what it is, right? So like. So, yeah, I seen that up close and personal, and I seen the preparation with that up close to personal. Man was in the weight room before everybody. Chris Bosh. It's sad that what. What happened to him.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It's sad.

[Pat Beverly]

It's sad. Like, he's supposed to go like, he's supposed to do more. You're supposed to hear like, more stories like, yeah, he hit a gang winner in the championship. He got. He's a four time champion. He's one of those guys.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

Elite talent.

[Unknown]

Hey, Unc. I think it is personal too, Unc. When you think about it, with what Rayon said, obviously him not being responsible, inviting Ray, I think it's more than just basketball, you know, it's something we don't know about. And it makes me think about the movie life when Martin. When Martin and Eddie got into it and it was personal for years and they didn't speak at all. It's like that kind of level, like, well, damn, you can really do that to us after all we've been through and you gonna go play with the enemy and then.

[Pat Beverly]

And then win.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

And then when the reason they wanted.

[Shannon Sharpe]

To hit the shot heard around the world.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, I don't want to hear it. I'm Ray Allen. I'm Jesus Shuttleworth. I don't want to hear they taking that.

[Unknown]

They taking that personal way.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But like I said, I just, I think it's. I mean, it's what that's been. It's. Man, it's been 15 years. It's been what, 12, 13 years. But it's time to move. You're closer to the end than the beginning. You only got so many more trips around the sun now. I mean, I hope y'all don't think y'all got. Y'all got. I don't know how old Paul Pierce and Ticket is. Like you said, Pat, they in their 40s.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Your best years, your absolute best years are behind you to have a petty beef because someone left. Okay, I guess people should feel bad for Ticking leaving Minnesota. They should feel bad for a truth leaving Boston. But nobody holds that against him because you went to a situation that you felt was best for you. At the end of the day, guys don't owe guys anything. I got to do what's in the best interest for me. I'm a business. I'm an entity. I mean, you think Google making decisions on. Based on what Microsoft doing or what? You know, Microsoft is Oracle on the video. I'm a business. I gotta make the decision that's best for me. And I believe if the money's comparable, money's gonna be better. Cause they ain't got no state taxes in Florida. And I'm playing with LeBron, I'm playing with D. Wade, and I'm playing with Abash. Yeah, I'm a grown. And I'm a grown.

[Pat Beverly]

And I'm a grown ass man. I can make my own decisions.

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ocho, you.

[Unknown]

You hear? Can you hear me?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Somebody might. Is it only me because I can't hear Ocho or Pat. Bev.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, we can hear you. Can you hear us?

[Unknown]

I can hear you.

[Pat Beverly]

Huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

I can hear you.

[Pat Beverly]

I can hear Ocho, too. Ocho, I can hear you. You can hear me, Ocho?

[Unknown]

Yeah, I hear you. Clear.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Y'all keep. I can't hear you right now because I don't have my ears in.

[Pat Beverly]

Sorry.

[Unknown]

Oh, you can hear me? Oh, he can't hear.

[Pat Beverly]

He can't hear. That's. See, look, that's what happened when you. You talking about age. See what happened when you get old. You stop here.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, I know y'all talking.

[Pat Beverly]

Ish.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But that's okay, y'all. Y'all too hard about to be talking.

[Pat Beverly]

Man got good sense, don't he? Man got good sense, don't it?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yo, y'all love the Kiki kid. Ocho falling all out his chair. Pat Bell. Pat Bell standing on his head like. Yeah, y'all talking. I know.

[Unknown]

Oh, oh, he still can't hear you.

[Pat Beverly]

Oh, okay.

[Unknown]

What's up?

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's up? What the hell you be. What's up? You. Hey, hey, Chat. You know how you walk in a room and everybody be quiet like, hey, man, how you doing? You've been talking about me for the last 30 minutes, talking about how I'm doing.

[Pat Beverly]

No, I told him. And the decision he can make. He can make it because he's a grown ass man. Right? I'm not entitled to tell y'all to what to do or not to do. I'm. I'm Ray Allen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah, and he was Ray Allen before he got y'all. They make it seem like Ray Allen was not Ray Allen. Do they remember Ray Allen in Milwaukee? Do they remember Ray Allen in Seattle? Ray Allen was.

[Pat Beverly]

His name was Jesus. Yes. The first black man named Jesus.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I don't think people. I don't think people realize that. People don't realize how, hey, he turned into a three point shooter. But Ray was going to the rack, dunking on folks.

[Pat Beverly]

His role changed, and he knew his role.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Ray was giving folk, giving folks that business.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, this is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm gonna need your expertise on this one. Josh threw a grenade at the crowd the other night. You know, he. Yo, he can't. He can't. He can't do that anymore. He can't do. Pat, if you was in the locker room with Ja, what would you sit down and talk to the young brother? What would you tell him?

[Pat Beverly]

I wouldn't try to. Right. Cause I was in the locker room with Anthony Edwards, too. Right. So my job in the locker room is, man, look, I ain't here trying to be your daddy, but I'm gonna try to be a brother. You feel me? You know these folks on you, right? You hot right now. You just got out?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

You just got out. Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You got to check in every so often, man.

[Pat Beverly]

Look, stay off that corner. Them folks, they looking for you. Yeah. Calm down, tread lightly. Just do that for about six months. Them folks go give you everything you want. You can keep it moving. Oh, not him.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I mean, and a lot of times, Pat, we hear people, that's not in that position, let that man be him. Let that man live his life. Well, that's why you're not in that position. Because I don't care what anybody says. There are certain things that you have to do, no matter who you are or how much, how big you are.

[Pat Beverly]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

It is what it is.

[Pat Beverly]

Nah, but my thing is, I hope it's not. I hope it's not going to be a lingering thing. That's my thing. I hope it don't get to a point where we told you so you feel right. They did. They did it to Alice. Right. They did it to the island. I'm talking about a. A trendsetter. You talking about somebody literally changed the game. They got right out of there. Not. Not. Yeah, not because of. No, no guns and no. AI wasn't even doing that. They got him out of that. Because I practice. Do you practice? They made a thing, a big thing, and got him out of that. So that's my fear and everything. Right. You don't want to get to a point where you're such a big distraction that it's a negative connotor that comes to you and around that organization. So you just don't want. Especially his age and especially what's going around now, Right? Right. Especially what's going around now. Especially what's going around in Memphis, in these inner cities who need. Who need that face, they need Josh, right? Cause he's their coach, right? So if he can like turn that light, right, and just turn it the other way. Right. And I ain't telling you to go out there and pray to the gods and do all that. I'm telling you to be yourself. Be a basketball player. Be swaggy, do your dance right. My son. Do the grit. So. So they taking some type of positive from it. My thing is that just use that big old light, that big old platform you got, John. Let's just use it in another way.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's awes me ask you a question.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

How surprised would you be if Memphis moved y'all in the off season?

[Pat Beverly]

That's the next. I mean, that's.

[Unknown]

That's.

[Pat Beverly]

I wouldn't say that's going to happen now, but that's usually the next steps. You see a coach leave, right? Anytime we're in the locker room, we see a coach get fired with motherfucker players get to looking around and I'm somebody next, man. Then it becomes player.

[Unknown]

I mean, listen.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I'm g. Tell you. I'mma tell you. I have my sources in the NBA. I'm not going to disclose those sources because they probably wouldn't tell me anything else at this point. Right. And Pat and. And okay, I could tell you, you know, I can see John coming down here, coming down here to Miami.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I. I ain't gonna tell you who told me. And I'm not telling you. I'm not telling you what I heard. I'm telling you what I know. So if it does happen to have happen, you know, later on in the future, just know you heard it from me first.

[Pat Beverly]

Man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I don't know if y'all got anything that they want. Y'all gonna trade them Bam. Y'all gonna trade them Tyler Hero. Cause that's the only pieces that y'all got. They're not gonna give you y'all best players. You gotta give them something comparable ojo.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Right?

[Unknown]

I mean, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. But I'm just. I'm just telling you what I know. That's it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Because the reports are Nico Harris. Harris, Harrison. Harris Harrison. He reached out To Minnesota Ant man. Is he available? Nope.

[Pat Beverly]

Absolutely. Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He reached out to Milwaukee. Is Giannis available? No.

[Unknown]

Absolutely not.

[Pat Beverly]

So.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But at that point in time, he was like, hold on. We're probably doing too much calling around this. Gonna get out. So now. So now, Pat Bell, we gotta hone in. Okay? Our next move gotta be our best move.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He called la. Rob. Hey, man. How you doing? Yeah, man, I'm good. What you think? You think we can get Anthony Davis off you for a Luca?

[Pat Beverly]

No, no, no, no, no. The language was different. The language had to be like this. Hey, ring, ring, ring. What's up? Hey.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hey, man. What's going on, man? How you doing?

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, I'm good.

[Chad Ochocinco]

Check it out.

[Pat Beverly]

I got something for you. I'm about to give you a Ferrari, you give me back a bag of potatoes. Come on, Pat. You could have been me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No matter of fact, Uncle, I ain't.

[Pat Beverly]

Gonna lie to you. A bag of potatoes with a hole in the bottom. Cause you giving me damaged goods. Ooh.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn, Pat, that's good. At least you could have said a.

[Pat Beverly]

Bendy Pat, man, you're giving me damaged goods. Man, I got my goods. I couldn't even eat my goods. I can't play my goods. I can't cook my goods. My goods ain't available, right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn.

[Unknown]

Damn.

[Pat Beverly]

I see you, but I see you in la. You driving Ferrari. Unc.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You. You.

[Pat Beverly]

You doing me like this.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

And now they looking at me crazy, talking about fire me. No, no, no, no. We ain't gonna do that. Nah, we ain't gonna do that. Not here. Not here.

[Shannon Sharpe]

But you know what? In order. Because here's the thing. There are certain people you don't even call and ask about. You're not even calling Boston asking about Jayson Tatum. You're not even.

[Pat Beverly]

There are certain.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You're not. I mean, there are certain people you won't even call. So the mere fact Rob probably said, hold on. You would really consider trading Luca, right? Cause Rob is thinking like, hold on. You not calling Golden State about no step. You not calling OKC about Shay.

[Unknown]

You know, they not answering the phone.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You're not calling Denver about. Yo, there's some things you don't even pick up the phone and call. There's some things like we were growing up, you wouldn't ask your mom, dad, or grandma. I wouldn't even bother because I already know what dance is, right?

[Pat Beverly]

I answer no every time.

[Unknown]

Listen, hey, you get. You getting ready to go in the store with your mama. Matter of fact, she tell you before you even get out of the car.

[Pat Beverly]

When we get in here, don't you ask for nothing.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Don't ask for nothing. And you better not push that bug up on my damn heels either. For real. Hey, Ocho, you know we pushing the bucket and all of a sudden they stop.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

And you not paying attention.

[Pat Beverly]

Boy, I did not tell you, you hit that. You hit that lower calf, that Achilles.

[Unknown]

Yeah, matter of fact, hold on. My grandma. Listen, I never forget. Oh, you know about Zaire. You ever heard of Zaire's before? Oh, man, Pat, I done ran into my grandma into Achilles, not paying attention, pushing the buggy, and she done stopped abruptly in front of me, and I had no idea. Ran into the back of her, and she didn't even look back at me. She just cool swing without even looking back because she knew exactly where I was at.

[Pat Beverly]

Right outside the head, right upside the head.

[Unknown]

Boy, that's nervous, right?

[Shannon Sharpe]

You can't ask for nothing. Like, don't ask for nothing. We going here so far, so on, why we gotta go.

[Pat Beverly]

I didn't get your feelings on this because, you know, the way you handled this was very, very, very perfect. You had two friends kind of get into it a little bit. How'd that feel?

[Unknown]

Who?

[Shannon Sharpe]

That LeBron and Stevie Day.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, man, I know that put you.

[Shannon Sharpe]

In a little pickle, man.

[Pat Beverly]

I know that put you in a pickle, Batman.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Look here, Stephen A. Is Stephen A. LeBron felt that Stephen A. Crossed the line because he questioned him as a father. You're not questioning Bronnie's skills. You're not questioning my skills. You questioning saying I'm doing damage to my son by having him play? Bro, he's the 55th player. I mean, there's only 60 players selected. They make it seem like they took Bronnie in the lottery, right? And if you. I'm not in. Plus, you have to understand, the man had a major medical issue. Give him some time to recover from that. Now, if in three years he's still melling around, okay, it is what it is. Maybe he's a career G leaguer, maybe he's a serviceable role player. But for me, once, it tells me a lot for LeBron to do what he did. Because LeBron has swallowed a lot of stuff for 22 years. For him to approach him in a public setting during the timeout of a basketball game lets you know just how upset he was. He said what he said. Stephen A. Said he understood. Cool. The problem that I had with Stephen A. And I told Stephen A. This, bro, you should have left that alone. Once you say you understood it. But when you went and made the rounds and you said what you said on Gill's arena and you went to other platforms and then, like, you added yeast to the story, that's why I was out on it. I mean, Stephen and my guy, we talk about a lot of stuff. Not just, you know, first take stuff. We talk about a lot of stuff. And, you know, he's helped me, given me some good advice, and I like to think I've given him some. I just wish whatever happened that Friday night, or whatever it was, that would have been the end of it.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah. And we made a good case on our pod. We made a good case. People should be judged. Case scenario. Right, right. Talk about the talent. Right, right. Talk about me not being good. Talk about, like, criticize me. Right. But don't criticize me because of who my dad is.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

Like you say, I'm 55th pick. Ain't nobody talking about these two bum ass. That was number one and number two.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Exactly.

[Pat Beverly]

That's losing every game we don't even know. Look, we talk about Bronny so much, people forget that he was the 55th pick. People forget who the first three picks were.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Hell, I couldn't tell you. I mean, hardly any of the picks.

[Pat Beverly]

My point exactly. You feel me? So, like, when you, when you dealing with that. Right. And, and, and, and, and, and one thing I like with the. About the James family, the way they take the criticism is, is everybody can't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Everybody ain't built for that. No. Pat Bell.

[Pat Beverly]

Remarkable.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

But also, Pat, you know, you've got to understand. You got to understand how long they've been in it. How long they've been in. So really, after this, after this long, you got to think the pressure has been on LeBron since, what, coming out of high school?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes. It was a junior in high school. Everybody. He burst off the. When they put him on cover on Sports Illustrated, said the chosen one.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So he's 40. He's 40 now. He was 16 or 17 then. So that's been 23, 24 years. For damn near a quarter century, he's been in the public eye.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So it's just like any parent, if you're in a situation and you can help your child, who doesn't? We see these CEOs and presidents and these owner companies. What did Jerry do, all of his kids? Ain't nobody say nothing. Well, Steven ain't qualified. Charlotte ain't qualified.

[Pat Beverly]

Right.

[Shannon Sharpe]

As a parent. That's what you do you try to put your kid in the best situation and then it's up to him to make the most best of the situation that you put him in?

[Pat Beverly]

We got, we got the blueprint from them. That's what we got, the blueprint. Oh man, I see these CEOs, they're doing this, man. Okay, man, this person deserved this job. But they go hire, they go hire cuzzle over here. Cuzzling ain't really did nothing. They still go high.

[Unknown]

Okay, cool.

[Pat Beverly]

We still all that. Anyone. So let's do the same thing, right? I mean collectively, longevity, you talk about legacy wise, you have to get the first, the mom a lot of credit because it starts with her and it trickles all the way down, right? To Ms. Savannah, it trickles all the way down. You have to give that family a lot of credit. They've done a lot. And to steal every time you see them, for them to look so royal so like with so much royalty and handling themselves. Class is really impressive. Especially coming from the black culture. Especially coming from the black culture.

[Unknown]

And this, this is how I know, this is how I know not only the James class, the, the James family is class personified, but LeBron James as well packed because you think about his accolades, his achievements and what he's been able to do since coming out of high school, the pressure being on him, him being able to take it all this time and reaching a milestone of being the highest scoring NBA player of all time. And the fact that when he hit that 50,000 points, you know, in whatever game that was, I just wanted to show you because the rest of the chat has seen it. Some of the other people that have been on here, babysitt uncle has been able to see it. You know, LeBron gifted me the 50,000 ball, the 50,000 point ball. And I just want to show it to you. Just check that out.

[Pat Beverly]

You sure?

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

You know I was on the Lakers when that game happened.

[Unknown]

Yeah, this the ball right here.

[Pat Beverly]

You turn around a little bit. No, that ain't it. No, you ain't. No, that ain't it. I know I ain't play with that ball. I ain't play with that ball. Yeah, I scored too that game. That ain't the ball. I scored with. That ain't the ball.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's going on with you? Lou Wills and Brandon Jennings. You posted to day that you kick their ass in a one on one tournament. Lou Williams, Jeff King, Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson, every one of them both know you get on the court with me and I'm gonna dog Y'all, what you.

[Pat Beverly]

What you say? Low five, high five, patent five. What are you talking about? Yeah, hey, no, but so you gotta understand, like, for me, my role coming to the NBA was very different, right? I. I've been on the team with Talos, right? I've been on the team with Lou Will, right? I've been. I played against Brandon James. So five on five segment is very different than the one on one set. Absolutely.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

But I'm able to practice against these guys, and I'm the guy that. Man, I. I can't shoot anyway. I gotta play defense all the time. Cause I gotta say, y'all ass anyway. So, okay, so they know what I bring to the table. Like, you know that guy in practice that. No matter you suit up with you, man, he gonna give me hell every single day. He ain't gonna let up. Right, Right. Or if y'all. In my case, y'all probably was the guy that didn't let up on camera. I'm saying. So that's how it is with me in practice. So, like, I know, coming in in the dough, like one on one in the dough with me, like. Like, with me, I'm a different animal. Like, I. I don't stop chewing. I. I keep going. I keep going. I keep going. I'm. I'm. I want bone. I don't want flesh. I want bone. I want meat. I want gristle. I want veins. Like, I'm. I'm. I'm. Yeah, I get wild when I'm in that cage, you know? So I like that. That. I like that. Yeah, it's different.

[Unknown]

Hey, I got a question. Since you really got that kind. You got that. In fact, you got that. Obviously, most. Most of us, we call it that dog mentality. It's not something that's taught. It's already in you. You already got that. So I'm just curious. You talk about playing them boys. If you and I were to play one on one, knowing that we both kind of think alike and we cut from the same cloth, you think a game. The 11 you could deal with me.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, yeah. Not, not, not. Like, see, look, my finger's doing something. I don't even know what they're doing. Right, right, right, right. But look, look. But not, not, not, like, just because. Because, like, you play a different sport or whatever. That's not the case. Just. Just the case that I will die out there before I lose. Are you willing to do the same? Hold on.

[Unknown]

I'm willing to die about a lot of things. Like, I. Okay, let Me tell you something, Pat. Let me tell you something about me, right? I owe him $5200, right? I ain't pay UNC money about 7.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You about to die, Pat, before you get a hold of it.

[Unknown]

I'm willing to die by that 50, 200.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Isn't you crazy? He gonna talk about I owe Unc and I ain't even paid it. And I ain't thinking, oh, hell, no. Oh, hell no, baby. You about to stand up on a ass cut before you get on the court.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, and on the side.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Chad, y'all heard this bad. This man be talking about all night. Talking about, yeah, I'm gonna run your money. We get to Baltimore now, he get to it with Pat, he ain't gonna pay me my money.

[Unknown]

Listen, I would just use that. I'm using it as a small example now. I'm gonna give you money anyway.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm just.

[Unknown]

I would give. I was telling Pat. I'm trying to give him an example how, like, I'm willing to die about not giving it, but I'm gonna give it to you.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm trying to get Pat.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I'm trying to get Pat to understand, like, I'm really like that, too. And if you're willing to die, by that, I mean we on the same page, right?

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

I would really love to schedul between us. I come to you, I'll spot you.

[Pat Beverly]

Five to 11. Who, me?

[Unknown]

I'm talking. Ain't no Al here.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm talking to you.

[Pat Beverly]

No, no, no, no.

[Unknown]

See, this. This the thing you play. You played professional basketball. You have yet to see me play. I averaged 56 in high school. I was supposed to go to the NBA, but I got in trouble. I got suspended. I got kicked out of school, so I had no choice. And I went to a school that only had football, so I was forced to do that.

[Pat Beverly]

You hear me? Huh?

[Unknown]

So I got the skill set, and I could transition into that. And if I need to get back to what I normally do and that putting belt to ass on the court, you could be the first one.

[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

Clorox Centiva Smells like lavender.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cleans like Clorox and feels like.

[Pat Beverly]

All right, that could go on for a while.

[Shannon Sharpe]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

Use as directed.

[Pat Beverly]

Amazon One Medical presents painful thoughts. Do they ever actually clean the ball.

[Unknown]

Pit at these kids play gyms? Or is my kid just swimming in a vat of bacteria catching whatever cootie.

[Pat Beverly]

Of the day is breeding in there?

[Unknown]

A cootie that'll probably take down our whole family.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Luckily, with Amazon One Medical 247 virtual care, you can get checked out for.

[Pat Beverly]

Whatever ball pit itis you've contracted. Amazon One Medical Healthcare just got less painful now. So, so with, with sports, and I think we all know this, with sports it's, it's the, the, it's the major, major component that's always important and that's conditioning, right?

[Unknown]

That's me, that's me. I'm conditioned, right?

[Pat Beverly]

I just played a game a month ago in front of 7,000, you know, 18, 5 and 5. You know, I'm okay, yeah, they screaming another language over there while I'm playing. I'm, I'm half my way. I'm backpedaling on the way back like this, right? Okay. So conditioning is a part of it. Mental conditioning is the most important part of it. That's, that's what they don't teach you. That's what you can't get in the gym, right? That's. That's that stuff. I'ma just lift and keep doing this rep until all my muscles burn. Until I feel a burn that I ain't never felt before. And then when I feel that, I'm gonna do some more, like. Okay, that type of. Yeah, I get wild. Okay, let me.

[Unknown]

Yeah, let me. Let me. Let me tell you something about my kind of conditioning.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

Can you hear me?

[Pat Beverly]

Y'all say y'all got me wild?

[Unknown]

I'm gonna tell. I'm gonna tell you about my kind, my kind of conditioning, all right? My conditioning. You know, I play soccer.

[Pat Beverly]

You let me write it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Let me write this down.

[Pat Beverly]

Cause I like to be ahead.

[Unknown]

Write it down. I play the striker, you hear me? I play the nine. I played 45 minute half straight with no break, running full speed. You hear me? That's fast. That's no breaks, no timeouts, no commercials. 45 minutes, that's two halves of those. Okay? That's part of my conditioning then. My physical and mental conditioning. I take these right here, huh? These called roast balls. Now, this kind of conditioning, I don't.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Know, Pat, you pop one of them, it might be over.

[Unknown]

Let me. I pop one of these, you hear me? I put chan cam, put her through the mattress, you hear me? I make sure she touch every corner.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Of the wall, huh?

[Unknown]

I put on the ceiling fan and I. I tie it to the ceiling fan and make it go around in circles. That's the kind of condition I'm talking about.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You ain't.

[Unknown]

No post up.

[Pat Beverly]

Who, man, he took that on, man.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Shooting up a jumper. Don't try your back on him. I'm just saying there. Hey, Pat, let the three go.

[Unknown]

Hey, wait, boy.

[Pat Beverly]

Pat, I love you, boy, but those guys, man, they know. They know. Those guys, man, they just, you know, they. I get the text. Like, it's funny because I get the text from guys like, yeah, man, let's. Let's keep running it up for the media. And in my mind, I'm like, no, I'm dead serious. Well, I ain't doing this. Cause no media. I'm dead serious. I bust all y'all ass, like, for real, like. And we could do it with cameras, without cameras. However you wanna do it. You feel me? How you wanna do it?

[Shannon Sharpe]

So, yeah, in fact, so let me get this. I get a sponsor, and I'm gonna put 50,000 on the line. So you, Lou Will, Ty Lawson, Brandon Jennings, one On one. Winner take all. Who taking the money?

[Pat Beverly]

I'm gonna say this. You will be not an intelligent man to bet against me, I tell you that.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, we gonna put it down. The winner get it all. The winner get the whole 50,000.

[Unknown]

Matter of fact, add 5,200 to that 50,000.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Stop whipping ass. You ain't fit to add a mofo thing of mine to it.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, no, hey, listen. I know it's cap when I tell a person, come on, let's play 100. Let's play one on one. For a hundred thousand. You go get. Go to your chase. I'm gonna go to my chase. I'm gonna take out a hundred, you take out a hundred. Don't nobody got to be there. We'll play. I guarantee you all of them will say no.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I don't know. Hey, hey, hey. Brandon Jennings, Ty Long.

[Pat Beverly]

Hey, I got y'all. Matter of fact, I got something even better for y'all, right? Y'all. Y'all both know, and y'all say y'all got sources. And y'all both know people that's in basketball.

[Unknown]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

Ask them. Just ask them. Hey, man, look, if one of them suited up with Pat. Cause, you know, we don't really know, but if one of them suit up with Pat, how the outcome would be, Everybody will tell you the same. Like, man, yeah, they can play. But boy, Pat different. He different.

[Shannon Sharpe]

He different.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, he different. He different. He just different. He not gonna stop. He's still working out. He's still playing basketball. Like, he Pat different. He different. Yeah. So that's all.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Are you trying to. Hey, Pat, are you trying to come back to the NBA, or you cool with where you are now?

[Pat Beverly]

You know what? I'll lie to you and say I don't want to come back to the NBA, right? I'll lie to you and say that like, you're a basketball player, you want to keep playing, you want to get a game, anything you can give it, right? You want to get a game, everything you can give it, you can play, play. I still can play. I still got a good three years left in me. You feel me? We just got a couple calls if I want to decide to go back overseas and play. So, like, basketball is always a door open for. Open for me. But again, we speak about longevity also, which is important. You know, I've done a good job, take care of my body to still even be in this position. So, yeah, if that opportunity presents itself, I'm going to be Mr. 94ft to Be Ready?

[Shannon Sharpe]

So in other words, in your clause in the overseas, you can opt out to come to an NBA if an NBA team offer you. Correct, Correct. Okay.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah. Yeah, I like.

[Unknown]

Yeah, I like it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

So, yeah, I mean, it's been a fun ride. I've been doing this for 17 years, right. I've been doing this five years overseas. I done seen the whole world, man. I done seen Italy, I done seen Russia, I done seen Israel, I done seen Greece. I done seen so many different countries.

[Shannon Sharpe]

What's some of the best souvenirs that you brought back from the countries? Because I know you gotta bring something back, because Russia and Italy and Israel and the Greece and Turkey, all the places you've been. What's some of the best souvenirs that you bought back?

[Pat Beverly]

Pat, you know what? I'll just say my mental ones, right? The people I've met through my journey, right? The coaches I've had, because, you know, the European coaches are very different than what the NBA is. The friendships I have, right? The restaurants that I can go back in Israel right now if I want to go to. And it look exactly the same, right? I'm able to bring my mom, you know, shot glasses from different countries. Just, you know, she don't drink at all, but just to have something that, you know, my son brought me this. So, like, I mean, this ride of mine, you talking about 12 years in the NBA, five years overseas, man, 17 years pro, doing it. Inner city kid from Chicago. You gotta think John Shire, me and Derrick Rose, we all the same class. I was the third best. I was the third best player in that class. I'm the only player still playing basketball.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah. John Shire, the coach of Duke, John.

[Pat Beverly]

Shire, him, me, Derrick Rose, I was the third best player out of all of them. Wow. I'm the only one still playing basketball.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Bet y'all didn't know that, did you, Chad?

[Pat Beverly]

That.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow. Pat Bab, you're 12 years in the NBA. You played with a lot of great players. You was on Philly, you played with Embiid, and you with LeBron and AD, and you with Kawhi and PG. And James, you played with James Harden. You played with some of the great. All 75 players, if you don't mind. What was some of the things that you would think that kind of made them who they are, what they are? LeBron.

[Pat Beverly]

I'm gonna start with LeBron James because he has to go first because he probably was the biggest impact in my career. I met LeBron when I was a rookie in Miami, and he really gave me the blueprint of being in the NBA and what his goal took to stay in the NBA, Right? He just did all extra shit like, okay, we sprinted with the Miami Heat. He fucking passed. Let's do five more sprints.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I'm a rookie.

[Pat Beverly]

What I'm gonna say no. LeBron James. Okay, we doing a sprint. He don't want to do regular sprints. He want to touch the wall.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You feel me?

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah. It might be nothing. It might be an extra little two feet. But those extra two feet add up over so many more times. Right? Right. With James Harden, I seen his ability to take the game of basketball and make it okay. How can I cheat the game when I say cheat the game? How can I get to the free throw line 20 times? What's the gray area into that? How can I use my IQ when my athletic falls, my athleticism falls and still be an elite skill player? Right? So I learned pick and roll isolation. The amount of time it takes to get from an ISO to from a switch. Then I go, Kawhi Leonard. I've never seen anybody in my life work out like him on the basketball court, Right? As basketball courts, basketball players, you rep it, you know, you might shoot five spots, you might shoot seven spots. I'm gonna shoot five. The corner, the wing, the top of the key. Corner, wing. I'm gonna shoot five spots. Him, he different. He shoot nine spots. When you shoot five spots regularly, you make 10 with him, he make 20, 29 spots. And it's not surprising to me when he plays sometimes and he gets hurt. Yes, he gets hurt because he's putting in so much extra work on a basketball. Wow. I've never seen a player. I've never seen a player work out like Kawhi Leonard in my entire life of being on this earth. Damn. His workouts are simple. They're extremely hard. They're extremely hard. I'm talking about make 29 spots. Make 20 another nine spots. Make 20 going left, left, fast spots. Make another 20 left, fast spots. Your arm's so tired and you yo, your mind so drained, like you for. Yeah, I done got up a thousand today. We're gonna do it again tomorrow. Pat 2000. We go do it again tomorrow. Pat 3000. We had 6000 makes in a week. I say, man, this man's. This man different. He different. Yeah, we. You miss gang. You missed the gang winner. You got to make 20. You missed 20. You go back down to 15. Mm. I'm talking about when it comes to like. And it's not a Lot of. Ain't no joking in the locker room. Ain't no. A crew full of 8 to 10 people. Ain't no cameras. It's me, his homie, my homie, four people. Homies, rebound. Let's work.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

So what he did would like. And everyone knows, but y'all know, like, with that amount of work you put in. Yeah. You know, you might be hurt. It might not show up this game, but in the playoffs, he shows up every single time. Yeah, every single time. So I was able to have some really good bets. And I ain't gonna lie to you. Huh. I had some motherfuckers that I was like, yeah, let me stay away from him. I'm cool.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You feel me?

[Pat Beverly]

I done have bets. They walk in there with flip flops on. Game starting the hour. They walking there with flip flops on. Okay, cool. Okay. Next two years, they have to leave. Ok, cool. Yeah. Pat, don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. So I had the best of both worlds. I was able to see people with big names get out the league, and I was able to see people that stayed in the league without big names. I ain't Never averaged over 10 points a game. I played 12 years in the NBA. I missed the playoffs once.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Wow.

[Pat Beverly]

I got drafted 42. I got drafted, same draft. Steph Curry draft. They took 19 point guards. I was one of them. Earn, keep. Earn my keep.

[Shannon Sharpe]

That's it.

[Pat Beverly]

I made over $100 million in the NBA, man. Uncle. I earned my keep.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You recently made some critical comments about the Sixers wasting opportunities. If you were the GM of the Sixers, you got Max contract. Joel Embiid. Max contract. Paul George. Max contract. Tyrese Maxey. You're the gm. Pat Bev is the GM of the Sixers. What are you doing this off season?

[Pat Beverly]

This off season. It'll be tough. It'll be tough for me again. Cause now I have damaged goods. All those players you name, they ended the season hurt, right? So now I'm doing a deal with a team. It'd be tough for me to even get that off. They didn't play well. They underperformed and they hurt. So, yeah, I'm giving you unk that red Ferrari Ain't a red Ferrari no more. It got a little dense in them. The little painters chipped a little bit. The muffler hanging back on the loose. It ain't the red Ferrari no more. I don't think you want to drive it. I ain't gonna lie. I don't think you want what I got to give you now we gotta overload. We gotta add some first. Some first rounds, you gotta add some second rounds. I think they put themselves in a position to either be really good or to be really bad in the field.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Well, I mean, when you got the contract, Joel embiId, you got three years coming at 193 million. You got Paul George, got. He's gonna pick up that fifth year option. He gonna pick that up. So you basically. So, basically, you got Paul George for another four years, excess of 200 million. Tyrese Maxey, I think Tyrese Maxey is. He's. He's gonna be an all star. He's phenomenal. But I just don't know what you're gonna do with Joel Embiid with his injury history, with his age and that contract, Paul George, his injury history as a blade, his age and that contract, what could you possibly do?

[Pat Beverly]

You know what? You gotta let it play out one more year, right? And then, like we said with anything with basketball, the first person to go on ain't the player is the coach, right? And I played for Philly. I played for that beautiful city, Unc. I played for Nick Nurse, right? I played with Joel. I know how nice he is. I played with Tyrese Maxey when he got most improved that year. I know how good he is. But. But you gonna feel a lot of pressure from that city. Y'all know Philly.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yep.

[Pat Beverly]

Philly a different city. When it come to sports. When it comes to sports, Philly take they, they. They take they. They sports. They go to sleep with it. They go to sleep with they sports. They, they, they. They drink coffee, coffee mugs, they got Phillies cup, they go, they sleep, they wake up with they sports. If you don't do something fast with that, no matter what it is, and, and don't do the wrong thing. And the wrong thing is get rid of Joel. You get rid of Joel, and this don't go, right? Yeah, it. You talk about losing for a lot of years, right? But if you get the right doctors in, you get the right medical staff, and you get the right locker room pieces around them that, you know, maybe you guys don't feel hurt. You feel me? Yeah. Maybe you guys, I ain't gonna lie. If you got 10 games to go, right, and you need to win seven of em to make it to the playoffs, that knee that was hurting, it don't feel that bad today, right? But if you got 10 games to go and you gotta win 11 of them, you know, I'M cool. Yeah. I don't want to play tonight. Right. It's just different, huh?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Right?

[Pat Beverly]

They just need.

[Shannon Sharpe]

They need a culture.

[Pat Beverly]

They need a culture. Anything with that involves winning, regardless. If it's a company, it's a football team, it's a basketball team, it's a karate unit with 10 year olds. You need culture. You need culture in order to be good at anything. You need the right culture and. Right. And this year they didn't have Pat.

[Shannon Sharpe]

I look at Ocho and I, we had a discussion and I said, I looked at it like this. Joel Embiid ended the season. He played in the postseason, but basically he was on one leg. Why not have the surgery on the leg or rest the leg? If surgery wasn't required, why go to the Olympics? And I understand the Olympics. America has done so much for Joel Embiid and his family made him rich. But wild is beyond his dreams. But he had a talent. He parlayed that. I don't get going to play for the Olympics. And if I'm the Sixers, I'm not going to allow Joel to play because I got two, $300 million tied up in you. And you spent the half the season, the majority of the season injured. Do you think he should have played in the Olympics? If you, if you own this, if you're Josh Harris and you own the Sixers, are you allowing your injured player, who injured the season, who the last part of the season and in the postseason was injured, are you going to allow him to play or to have. Or are you going to say you need to have surgery or you need to rest to make sure you're healthy for the 76ers.

[Pat Beverly]

So throughout that whole year, they knew that the team came up short the year before. So being around the NBA at that time, you heard little chatter, right? You hear a little chatter and Joel playing and KD playing and Kawhi you playing, Steph Curry playing. LeBron said he playing. Did you play like you start. You start hearing about it.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

And now it became not everybody playing, all the top dogs playing, right. You didn't want to miss a seat on that bus. Because what they did, they go down in history, right? They gonna go down in history. So with that, with the States have done, you know, in his defense, in his mind, he was like, you know, Pat, like, like, feel me like, man, like my son was born here. Feel me like my son was born here. I'm putting on for the little homie. Right? You can't go against that, huh? Right. I'M putting. I'm putting on for my son. So, like, I thought what he did, the decision he made, I thought it was a fantastic decision. Right. I thought him coming up winning gold, I thought he was gonna take that momentum and go back to Philly, because in the Olympics, he seemed. He seemed in great condition. He seemed in elite condition. He didn't seem like, you know, like he was dragging or anything. He looked really good. He was probably one of the reasons, the main reason he hit the mid range shot when US couldn't score. Right there on the right wing over Jokic against Serbia.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Serbia.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, he hit that shot. That was a big shot. People don't understand. That was probably one of the biggest shots because USA couldn't score. He hit that shot. They go on, Steph Curry do his thing, LeBron do his thing, but they win a game like they brung home the gold. I can never fault a person who put on for his country and brought us back gold.

[Shannon Sharpe]

No, but if you, if you Josh Harris and you got $300 million tied up in him, you can fault him.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah. Yeah. If you Josh Harris, you looking at it from a whole different business.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Absolutely.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yeah.

[Pat Beverly]

You looking at it from a business point. Yeah, I hear you. I hear that. I hear you. But, yeah, we gonna need. We gonna need gold in Philly, too. So. Yeah, it goes both ways. I'm just glad I made Josh Harris. I'm glad I. That's a. That's a hard job to have. Yeah, that's a hard job to have.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Cause you shelling. You shelling out money. Because here's the thing. And you had. What's the gym in Philly. You had him in Houston.

[Pat Beverly]

You talking about the gm. I walk on the bus, uncle. I say, hey, Darryl Moore, you trading me? He. No, Pat, I ain't trading you, uncle. I was traded three days later.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Damn.

[Pat Beverly]

And you know me, I'm 12 years in, so. And I know him. He came and got me.

[Shannon Sharpe]

You feel me?

[Pat Beverly]

He came and got me in Europe. So he brought me to the Rockets. He gave me my first contract, so it's my mama know him.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So you really can't even be mad even though he traded you? Can't be mad cause he brought you.

[Pat Beverly]

That's my man. Yeah. It ain't personal as business, but. Yeah. I got on the bus, Uncle. I got right on the bus. Hey, Darrell, what's going on, man? I see you on a lot of away games lately, man. I know Trey about to go down. I'm getting traded. Oh, no, Pat. You cool? Yeah. Yeah. Pat, you going to Milwaukee? All right, cool. Thank you. I know the business. You feel me?

[Shannon Sharpe]

But if this thing don't work out because he extended Joel Embiid when he didn't have to. It's easy to give somebody else money away, Pat, as opposed to spend your own. Josh Harris looked like. Hold on. You brought in Paul George, gave him a five, basically a five year deal when it seemed like the Clippers was only willing to go to three. You signed Joel Embiid when he had two years still left on his deal, and you gave him a three year extension at a 193. This better work out.

[Pat Beverly]

You gave Nick Nurse the bag.

[Shannon Sharpe]

Don't forget about that. It better work out, Pat.

[Pat Beverly]

You gave Tyrese Maxey the bag.

[Shannon Sharpe]

So you got three guys basically on a max contract.

[Pat Beverly]

Yeah, I just. It's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough. I think this is years out. I don't think this is something that can just turn around instantly. I think again, I think they gotta fix what's in the locker room, right? If it's a star player, if it's a superstar player, if it's the kid who you draft, or if it's the role player who waving town, you gotta get that. You gotta get culture together. And once you get that together, you can kind of navigate your way through basketball games. That's the easy part. But they got to fix that locker room. They got to fix the culture that, that, that that organization back. They got to get it back.

[Shannon Sharpe]

The volume.

[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

Favorite. Check.

[Chad Ochocinco]

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[Pat Beverly]

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[Chad Ochocinco]

Sorry, nope.

[Pat Beverly]

But a box fan? Happily, yes. A day of sunshine? No. A box of fine wines?

[Shannon Sharpe]

Yes.

[Pat Beverly]

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[Shannon Sharpe]

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