Beverley, a career marked by many clashes with opponents and by his specialty: provoking. But also tainted by the quarrel with her 15-year-old sister who degenerated beyond all limits
Sam Smith is a legendary journalist from Chicago. He documented Jordan’s Bulls epic. A while back he wrote a book with Derrick Rose. And he asked him who were the most difficult opponents he had ever faced. One name surprised him: “Patrick Beverley.” “Really?” the scribe asked the basketball player. “A hooper” the point guard called him, in jargon a significant compliment, someone who knows how to play basketball, in the strict sense of the term. Yet to the rest of the world Bev was a pain in the ass who could never keep her mouth shut. And not only that.