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“There are some guys who have that defensive mentality, but it’s rare to have a guy who comes into the game and impacts it the way he does on that side of the ball,” Udoka said. “You saw it with Dillon, you saw it with Pat (Beverley). There are certain guys you have to prepare for because of what they do defensively. He’s one of them.” “(Udoka’s) mentality matched mine,” Smart added. “He allowed me to be me without any persecution.”
Patrick Beverley describes security threats after the Russell Westbrook injury: "I come in there, two police come next to me. I look at Coach McHale, he, 'Don't worry, everything's okay.' I, 'What's going on?' I, 'James, what's y'all room number?' We in eight something. I, 'Damn, why I'm only playing on number five?' I go to my room. It's two security guards outside my door. I, 'What the [expletive] is going on?' They done put hit out on me. Ball boy say, we go kill Patrick Beverley coming to OKC. People don't know that. They had to fire the ball boy. They be floating, they got a picture of him all around the thing. If y'all see him, yeah, all that. It's a real thing. Kill Patrick Beverley. They had to fire ball boy, all they got police next to my room and they got a police escort in my house in Houston and I'm in OKC. This is my first year of the NBA, bro.”
Patrick Beverley: "I'm officially in the NBA now. I'm broke as hell. I got to get all this money back. My buyout, $1.7 million. The NBA can only pay $450,000. I had to pay the rest. I put myself in debt coming to the league. I paid my own money to get to the NBA, bro. All the money I ever made overseas, I had to get all that sh*t back. I came to the NBA with like $7,000 in my pocket."
Tony Allen: You was talking about Houston, your time in Houston, you got a chance to play with James Harden, arguably one of the best scorers at the two position in your belief, right? Patrick Beverley: Number three: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Harden.
Legion Hoops: Pat Bev says Darvin Ham asked him for Russell Westbrook’s number to call and apologize: “I told Ham from the beginning, you gotta coach everybody… I see Ham in Vegas. ‘I just wanted to tell you, you was right. You and Russ was right. Y’all were the leaders of my team… You got Russ number?’ It’s too late then.”
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Patrick Beverley: "It's nothing I've ever experienced in basketball in my life. That Heat culture is absolutely real. Anyone who's been there, the practice facility, the locker room is downstairs, you got to go upstairs to get to the practice facility. Before you open the door to get to the practice facility, you have to have on knee pads and your jersey has to be tucked in every single time. I don't care who you is. Discipline off the rip. Before LeBron James got to the Heat, they didn't have a motherfucker with no headband. Think about it."
Former NBA guard Patrick Beverley has opened up about the difficult start to his professional career in Ukraine, explaining how the experience shaped the mentality he carried throughout his basketball journey. "I get a call to play in Ukraine – second division, Ukraine," Beverley said on the Out The Mud Podcast. "I hopped on that plane so fast. I was out of there." Beverley left Arkansas in 2008 and began his professional career with BC Dnipro in Ukraine. He played 46 games during the 2008-09 season, averaging 16.7 points, 7.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 2.2 steals, and 1.3 blocks. "When you hear this backstory and see the reason why I play the way I play, it makes sense," Beverley noted. "It makes sense that I celebrate all the small wins. I appreciate every small win."
"I went to Ukraine and just imagine – second division Ukraine. Not even first division," Beverley said. "No planes, no buses. We took trains everywhere," Beverley added. "I'm talking about 21-hour train rides. I'm going to places I had never seen before. "I'm probably making 6,000 a month. I don't care. I'm just hooping. I'm eating borscht [soup]. I'm for real."
Patrick Beverley: "I don't think it's fair that you can quit the game of basketball and come back. You can quit when not having a ton of success. You can quit because the game is hard and it's stressful when you're not playing well and the fans are on you and the media is on you, you can quit and have an opportunity to come back. When we've been looking at Victor Oladipo, who's been competing, who's been degrading himself, went to the G League, we witnessed Victor Oladipo work out in front of a ton of coaches and GMs and writing letters. This is the guy you pick? No disrespect from Ben Simmons, you feel me? Like I'm not with quitting the game of basketball because it's hard at the time and because I'm not playing right, I don't feel right. Everywhere I go, it's an issue and an excuse. I'm injured, and I understand injury, but to quit the game of basketball and to come back to get an opportunity, and you got Cam Thomas who don't have a job, who like putting in that work year after year and like a guy can just quit and come back anytime. I don't I don't like that at all."
Patrick Beverley: "I'm still doing it, man. Year 19, I'm still playing basketball, man. I get a chance to play with a new team in France, you know me, and I've kind of found my niche, you know. I'm not going to do the EuroLeague, I'm not going to do the big clubs. No, I want to take teams that are in the middle of the pack, that want to go up, and I'm going to bring them up, and that's my niche."
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Patrick Beverley: "I didn't know what Olympiacos, I didn't understand the team I was playing for at the time until probably five months into the season. My first professional team was a second division team in Ukraine. So I went from Ukraine, got drafted to the NBA, I spent one more year in Greece, which was the team with Olympiacos. A lot of people don't understand, I don't think they even know this, I tried out for Olympiacos and made the team. I didn't come in a situation where they wanted me. My agent knew someone, I tried out for Olympiacos, I just went there playing hard and I made the team."
Patrick Beverley: "What was said in Indiana was, I've never been spoken to that way my entire life in the NBA. I'm going to just say that. Do I regret the way I handled things? Of course. Could I have had handled things better? Of course. Obviously that you cross and you don't cross when it comes to just talking to anybody, any human being. And that line for the people that were around, that line was crossed several times. Did I handle it the best way? Probably not, but would that person go around saying those things again? Probably not."
Patrick Beverley: "Montrezl Harrell gets into a verbal argument with Paul George. That dynamic doesn't look good. They let Montrezl Harrell walk. Lou Kennard comes in, he signs a four-year $60 million deal. They got Lou Williams, the most six-man in NBA history, they got him on an $8 million deal. Lou Williams pissed. I come in, I ask for an extension, they try to lowball me. So they're doing all of this to keep superstars happy. And then you get rid of Paul George, and you get James Harden, and you get Russell Westbrook. You get rid of them, and you cut Chris Paul. Only person that you keep is Kawhi Leonard. Phenomenal basketball player. Don't get it twisted. Kawhi Leonard, when healthy, is a phenomenal basketball player. It's not even close actually. He has Michael Jordan numbers when he's healthy."
Draymond Green: "Patrick Beverley said on the The Analysis podcast that he helped ignite the winning culture in Minnesota. He said I really put on for the city of Minnesota. I don't know if people know this, but they hadn't missed the playoff, they haven't missed the playoffs since I got there. I'm not saying it's all me, but I started something in Minnesota for sure. I just want to remind Patrick Beverley that when he got there, young Ant-Man was there. Now, what I will say is, you can't take credit away from Patrick Beverley because Patrick Beverley brings a certain mentality to a group. And for a young talented player like Ant-Man to see that mentality and say, ah, okay, and also get that first taste of the playoffs, it then set you up for the future. So I'm not going to come on here and say, oh man, Patrick Beverley is tripping. I do want to remind him that a young Ant-Man was on his way."