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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