Philadelphia 76er Patrick Beverley Replies to Fans on the Internet | Actually Me
On this episode of Actually Me, Philadelphia 76ers veteran guard Patrick Beverley goes undercover on the Internet and responds to real comments from Twitter, Reddit, Quora, YouTube and more.Director: Robby MillerDirector of Photography: Brad WickhamEditor: Marcus NiehausCreative Producer: Arielle NeblettLine Producer: Jen SantosProduction Manager: James PipitoneProduction Coordinator: Jamal ColvinTalent Booker: Paige Keffer; Meredith JudkinsCamera Operator: Chloe RamosSound Mixer: Eric RomaryProduction Assistant: Rowmel FindleyGroomer: Barry WhitePost Production Supervisor: Rachael KnightPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Rob LombardiAssistant Editor: Andy Morell
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00:00 Sup GQ, I'm Pat Bev and today I'm going undercover
00:04 on the internet, here we go.
00:06 Yep, it's actually me.
00:07 [keyboard clicking]
00:11 Quora, you ever heard of that?
00:12 I've never heard of this in my life.
00:14 Love that name.
00:16 Is Patrick Bradley a good defender
00:18 or does he just get away with a bunch of reaching fouls?
00:21 A little bit of both.
00:22 Accept the word good, take that output great,
00:24 but that's what happens.
00:25 When you a defender, you get away
00:27 with a bunch of reaching fouls.
00:29 It's like if you're an offensive player,
00:30 you go to the free throw line a lot.
00:32 I mean, come on casual fans, that'd be great.
00:35 He only three followers, so say less.
00:37 Who are the biggest trash talkers in the NBA?
00:40 Draymond for sure, KD for sure, low key Luka Doncic,
00:44 low key as hell, I'm definitely somewhere up there.
00:47 Russ, yeah Russ up there, cool little fella.
00:51 Twitter, it's gonna be interesting.
00:53 I saw Hoop Dreams for the first time
00:57 and now I'm seeing there's a sequel with Pat Bale
00:59 called Hoop Reality.
01:01 This is very true.
01:02 I had a camera following me around my entire senior year
01:06 trying to get a, I don't know, a part two
01:08 like from Hoop Dreams.
01:09 I mean, as a senior in high school, I thought it was lit.
01:11 I was hooping, team was winning, nationally, you know,
01:14 ranked team, we got a camera following me
01:16 and the homies around every day at school.
01:18 So, no, that's true, that was a vibe.
01:20 I had a ton of fun with that.
01:22 Why is Pat Bale crying like they win a ring or something?
01:27 First off, you can't write a sentence the right way.
01:30 That's first off.
01:31 Before you get traded, you get traded to a spot
01:33 where you get a chance to win,
01:35 get a chance to win the championship.
01:36 I got traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves,
01:39 a team who hasn't been in the playoffs, I don't know,
01:41 16, 17 years, whatever.
01:43 So, before season started, I'm the guy
01:45 who likes to go mirror, check mirror.
01:48 These are my goals, these are things I wanna do.
01:50 I like to manifest things,
01:51 I like to speak things into existence.
01:54 I wanted to make sure this team went to the playoffs.
01:56 That was my only goal, that's the only thing I wanted to do.
02:00 We did it, we did it against the team that traded me.
02:03 I asked the team that traded me for money,
02:05 they didn't wanna give it to me, Minnesota gave it to me.
02:07 We beat them, knocked them out the playoffs,
02:10 we're going to the playoffs, emotions build up.
02:12 I'm happy as fuck.
02:13 Is a man allowed to be happy?
02:15 Why do we always have to cry tears of pain?
02:18 We can't cry tears of joy?
02:19 So, that's all it was, it's me crying tears of joy.
02:22 Whoever don't like it, fuck 'em.
02:23 I mean, I don't know if I can say that,
02:25 but that's how I talk, so do what you need with that.
02:28 How the hell does the NBA bubble championship
02:30 not count, Pat Bell?
02:31 Can't pick and choose which titles matter
02:33 and which ones don't 'cause of the conditions.
02:36 It's very hard to answer this.
02:38 It counts, it does count,
02:40 but when you're playing in an environment
02:42 where you're not going against any part of like crowd,
02:46 you know, we had a team down 3-1, the Denver Nuggets.
02:49 Give Denver a lot of credit, they came back and won
02:51 and did everything they supposed to do in the bubble,
02:53 but that looks very different if 3-1 was close out game
02:56 in LA Clippers or close out game in LA
02:59 or you know, stuff like that.
03:00 So, for me saying the bubble ring doesn't count,
03:02 I think it's part ignorant, but at the same time,
03:05 the bubble didn't give you all the normal conditions
03:08 that you would have on facing other teams.
03:11 And I'll just leave that at that.
03:13 YouTube.
03:14 Bev and Russ becoming best friends
03:20 was something I did not see.
03:22 Me neither, on God, me neither.
03:25 Russ the homie, Russ really the homie,
03:27 really Russ the bro.
03:28 When I first came to LA, he was the first person
03:30 that kind of like anything you need
03:32 and he was at my press conference throughout the season,
03:34 you know, dinners, wine, fat wines, fat wines all the time.
03:38 Had a Christmas dinner together, think about that.
03:41 Me and Russ, really misunderstood, really misunderstood.
03:45 NBA great, legend for sure.
03:48 Next, Pat Bev.
03:50 You should have came to Golden State.
03:52 Would have had a chance to win a ring this season.
03:54 Heard that you chose joining the Bulls over the Warriors.
03:58 Is that true?
03:59 This is absolutely true.
04:01 But people understand in this game, right,
04:03 you talk to these NBA teams,
04:05 you talk to these GMs, these presidents.
04:07 The Golden State Warriors wanted me to wait.
04:08 They wanted me to wait to see
04:09 how the Gary Payton thing played out.
04:11 They wanted to wait and see how
04:12 the Steph Curry injury played out.
04:15 And in this business, you know, or any business,
04:17 if you have an opportunity that's waiting on you,
04:19 I don't think any normal person would wait
04:22 on an opportunity that's not fully there already.
04:25 So I took what was available to me at that time.
04:29 And what if I did wait and the Bulls close up
04:32 and Golden State Warriors said no,
04:34 now I'm left without a job.
04:35 But these are the casual things
04:37 that casual fans don't think of.
04:38 They think that, you know, you have this and this
04:40 and oh, you chose, no.
04:42 If the Warriors would have said,
04:43 Pat Bev, we want you to come to Golden State,
04:46 I would have happily been with the Warriors the next day.
04:48 But that wasn't the case.
04:50 The Bulls did that and that's the decision I made.
04:52 Back to Twitter.
04:55 Pat Bev was the best technical foul earned in NBA history.
04:59 The man showed a camera to the ref.
05:01 I don't think this should have been a technical foul,
05:03 not because the actual foul did not happen,
05:06 but the fact that it's been guys showing iPads,
05:08 it's been guys showing clipboards,
05:10 it's been guys showing whatever
05:12 that didn't receive a technical foul.
05:14 I guess the name on the back of the jersey,
05:16 you know, for me, if I do any little thing,
05:17 I get a technical foul.
05:18 It's just part of the business with me though,
05:20 but I've seen this happen play after play
05:22 and you never see a guy gets a technical foul,
05:24 but man, that was a good game.
05:25 That was a fucking good game.
05:27 Skip Bayless on national television.
05:29 I will give Patrick Beverly, he tweeted this,
05:32 'cause that's not how you spell my name,
05:33 but Skip Bayless on national television,
05:35 I will give Patrick Beverly a ring
05:37 and not Russell Westbrook.
05:38 I just don't like him.
05:39 How are these media shows allowed to blatantly slander
05:41 a player with extreme bias?
05:43 Me, you know, on my pod,
05:45 we had a real big debate about this,
05:46 how the media kind of controls the narrative players
05:49 and the control of narrative from players
05:51 can actually, you know, help or hurt a player
05:53 when it comes from, I don't know,
05:55 making 200 million to 150 million,
05:57 you know, if you're in that range
05:58 or from being an NBA or not being an NBA.
06:01 I agree with this.
06:03 The blatant slander, you know,
06:04 with extreme bias can cause somebody
06:06 to lose on a ton of money.
06:08 So use your words, don't use your words at people
06:10 and make sure your words are factual
06:12 when you do use, especially if you're part of the media.
06:14 So that'd be my answer to that.
06:16 Does any NBA player think about another player
06:19 as much as Pat Bale thinks about Chris Paul?
06:22 I don't know how to answer that.
06:23 Do you think about another player as much as Chris Paul?
06:25 No, I don't.
06:27 Warcore.
06:29 How was Patrick Bradley able to guard Kevin Durant
06:32 in the first two games of their playoff series
06:34 despite the substantial height difference?
06:36 So me and the homies, right,
06:37 we talked before the playoff series,
06:40 we talked, we didn't know him, ABC,
06:41 we started in two rookies.
06:43 Our leading scorer is two guys off the bench,
06:46 Lil Will and Trenz.
06:47 Obviously no one in the world thought we had
06:49 any slight of a chance of beating go to state,
06:51 probably except us.
06:52 So me and the homies, "Okay, Pat, who you got?"
06:54 I said, "Man, I told coach, man, give me KD."
06:57 They say, "All right, fuck it,
06:58 "how you thinking about guarding?"
06:59 So I got homie, homie like five, nine.
07:03 I have homie stand on couch.
07:06 Now homie kind of KD height now.
07:07 So like we at the crib, he got ball in hand,
07:11 I'm putting my butt all on the couch and shit,
07:13 like, "Yo, that's what I'm gonna do, bro.
07:14 "I gotta chop off his legs, bro.
07:16 "I can't give him power
07:17 "'cause he gonna shoot right over me."
07:18 So the key with that game was being aggressive as shit.
07:21 I understood the refs wasn't gonna call a ton of fouls
07:23 'cause they wanted to see that.
07:24 You know, it's always a build up from each series.
07:26 They wanted to see both of us on the courts.
07:29 The game says I had six fouls,
07:30 but I knew I had really nine going in,
07:32 if you know what I mean.
07:33 So I was able to be really aggressive with him,
07:36 just fouled a lot, used my strength,
07:38 used my lower body on his lower body
07:40 and kind of like, you know, kind of throw him off.
07:42 But yeah, that was how I was able to kind of, you know,
07:45 get that job done the first couple of games.
07:47 What should NBA teams do to prevent star players
07:50 from demanding trades?
07:51 Ooh, that's a good one.
07:54 Hold on.
07:55 What should NBA teams do to prevent star players
07:57 from demanding trades
07:58 and exerting too much control over their futures?
08:01 It's a business, all right?
08:03 Like, the next 30 years,
08:04 it's gonna be somebody else calling themselves the Claw
08:07 or the Beard, or it's gonna be a kid
08:10 shooting no-look threes again.
08:11 I promise you it is.
08:12 So this game is a revolving door.
08:15 I don't think this has to do with preventing star players.
08:17 I think that everyone should have a freedom to, you know,
08:19 if you're not happy in a situation and it's your future,
08:23 you should be able to control your future.
08:25 And if you want something better,
08:28 and I think that's up to you,
08:29 obviously you are the one who has to deal with, you know,
08:32 the media backlash, the, you know,
08:34 opportunity of is there another team or relocation?
08:37 That player is going through all that, you know,
08:39 none of the teams are.
08:41 No, I think you should be in control of your own destiny
08:43 and your own future.
08:44 I don't think the NBA should do anything
08:46 to prevent anything like that.
08:47 I think, actually, I think it makes it a better league.
08:50 Who is a better defender, Tony Allen or Patrick Faverly?
08:53 Two different defenders, but I'm gonna say me for sure.
08:56 But you gotta understand me and Tony Allen,
08:57 Tony Allen's like the big bro.
08:59 He's from Chicago.
08:59 So like, I've learned a lot, a ton.
09:02 Like I asked a ton of questions.
09:03 I've learned a lot from him,
09:04 but there's two different defenders.
09:06 He's, you know, he's 6'5", 6'6".
09:08 I'm 6'6"1".
09:09 You know, he played the passing lanes really well.
09:11 I really don't play the passing lanes.
09:13 I'm really on ball.
09:14 He guarded the post really well.
09:16 I'm short, so it's kind of tough for me to guard the post.
09:18 Just two different defenders, but I'm gonna still choose me.
09:21 Let's check Twitter.
09:23 Can someone tell me what is the road map
09:27 for Pat Bale to win Defensive Player of the Year?
09:30 I don't know.
09:31 I don't know the road map.
09:32 A lot of media people don't like me,
09:33 so this is a media-based vote.
09:35 So the road might be hard, it might not.
09:38 Who cares, as long as I, you know, continue to impact
09:40 and leave my legacy on the game.
09:42 That's really the most important thing for me.
09:44 I think you should ask the coaches.
09:45 You know, I'm a firm believer.
09:46 Just ask the coaches who blows up their ATOs,
09:49 meaning after timeout plays,
09:51 or ask the coaches who give their players
09:53 the hardest route during the game,
09:54 or ask the coaches, like, damn,
09:56 I gotta tell my big to keep screening Pat Bale
09:58 because he's so attached to, you know,
10:00 whoever that ball handler is.
10:01 Just, you know, just ask the coaches.
10:03 Back to YouTube.
10:06 Pat, what's harder, coming back from a blowout loss
10:09 in the playoffs or coming back from a really close game,
10:13 you losing crunch time?
10:15 I think the really close game, you losing crunch time.
10:18 You know, you come back from a game, it's close,
10:20 and then you still lose.
10:21 I think you find little things.
10:22 Ah, if I could've did that better, if I could've did that.
10:24 I mean, I should've passed it there.
10:26 Ooh, I should've shot it there.
10:27 Ooh, I should've rebounded there.
10:29 You see things to kind of fix.
10:30 You know, you get blown out, especially in the playoffs.
10:33 It's, man, scrap that game, on to the next type of vibe.
10:35 You know what I'm saying?
10:36 So, yeah, I think that's hard,
10:38 coming back from a game and then crunch time.
10:40 Pat, are you looking forward to being able
10:42 to play in more arenas like Boston Guard and MSG
10:45 now that you're a sixer?
10:46 Since you are someone that knows and loves the game,
10:49 is that like an added bonus to play in new arenas?
10:51 It is, and I don't care what you say.
10:54 Like, any NBA player, basketball player,
10:56 tell you, like, MSG, always, always.
10:59 You look forward to that.
11:00 You got the fit planned out for that.
11:02 Like, you locked in, you got haircut for a trip.
11:05 Like, you locked in on that game.
11:06 And Boston, for sure.
11:07 I mean, so much history with it.
11:09 Like, some of the old quarters still on it.
11:10 Like, there's so much history with it
11:12 that, like, you embrace these points
11:14 of playing in arenas like this.
11:16 So, yeah, for sure, 100%.
11:18 Signing off.
11:19 GQ, thank you guys for everything.
11:21 The questions were great.
11:22 YouTube was great.
11:23 Quora was great.
11:24 Thank you, thank you, thank you.
11:25 Until next time.
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