LA Clippers guard Reggie Jackson shared a hilarious story about Patrick Beverley and the team's first 24 hours in Orlando.
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00:00Patrick Beverley has an unbreakable spirit. As the team arrived in Orlando, subject to a 48-hour
00:05quarantine period, Beverley was checking up on his teammates and making sure they were all good
00:09and settling into their rooms. Reggie Jackson, one of the team's newest members, recalled Beverley's
00:14actions during Friday's Zoom press conference, saying, quote, we're all locked up now in
00:18quarantine, can't leave your room, probably two in the morning and all we get is a yo, yo. Everybody's
00:24like, what is going on? Bev is just yelling through walls, make sure everybody is good. It's the first
00:29day, he's just checking. Everybody's opening the doors and saying what's up with each other and
00:32that made, I guess, the first part 24 hours of lockdown even better, just knowing your teammates
00:36are there with you. That's just something very simple, but the guy has constant energy, a lot of
00:41intangibles. He's great with the team. As funny and unusual as the story sounds, it's perfectly
00:46on brand for Beverley. 32-year-old guard spends a lot of his time checking up on his teammates,
00:51both on and off court, and will do just about anything to keep that energy high in their minds
00:55It's difficult to measure exactly how important his presence is with the team,
00:58but the Clippers generally play better basketball on Beverley's on the floor.
01:02So far this season, LA has gone 37-11 when he plays and 7-9 when he's out. Last year,
01:08they lost all four games that he missed due to injury and went 13-16 when he came off the bench,
01:13compared to the team's 35-14 record in his 49 starts. As Jackson says, Beverley's quarantine
01:19shouting ultimately isn't anything major, but it was an action to put the team together during a
01:23time when they had to be apart. It pays to have a teammate like that, and the Clippers are going
01:27to need him to maintain that energy if they want to win this year's title. The NBA champion won't
01:30be signed for another three months, and it won't be that easy to stay focused.