The NBA isn’t quick on drama, even when the gamers are having fun with some much-needed time without work in the course of a protracted season. That a lot is true this yr, as Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley has gotten right into a forwards and backwards on Twitter with former NBA participant and present ESPN analyst JJ Redick.
NBA Beef Continues With Again & Forth Between Redick and Beverley
It started early on Tuesday morning. Redick was commenting on the Bucks’ scenario, and the truth that the crew is simply 3-7 within the first ten video games underneath Doc Rivers. Redick harshly referred to as out the pinnacle coach, saying that Rivers by no means exhibits accountability, and is at all times throwing his crew underneath the bus.
He would know first hand. Redick was a member of the Clippers throughout Rivers’ tenure because the crew’s head coach, and the 2 spent 4 years in the identical locker room. So whereas it’s considerably shocking to listen to a coach get referred to as out like he did on nationwide tv, the statements maintain way more weight when they’re stated by certainly one of their former gamers.
It didn’t sit nicely with Beverley. The journeyman guard took to Twitter to answer Redick, defending his present coach in opposition to the allegations, however strictly attacking Redick in doing so:
This Man Doc truly saved your profession. Began you when nobody else needed 2. And u retire go on TV and say that. @jj_redick
— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) February 20, 2024
Beverley is clearly alluding to the time that the 2 spend collectively in Los Angeles with the Clippers, a tenure that ended the season earlier than Beverley arrived to play for them. The accusations are fascinating, given the truth that Redick had the most efficient seasons of his profession whereas taking part in underneath Rivers, which is what the present analyst responded with in his personal tweet about an hour later:
Pat my man I had a 4 yr provide with participant choice for a similar cash to be a starter for a unique crew. FOH “saved my profession”. https://t.co/5lXowm2j8e
— JJ Redick (@jj_redick) February 20, 2024
Apparently, Doc’s son Austin is at present a fellow NBA analyst on ESPN alongside Redick.
The Milwaukee Bucks are in third place within the Japanese Convention and are 8.5 video games again of the Boston Celtics for the #1 seed.
