Having played for the Los Angeles Lakers for half a season, Patrick Beverley knows just how tough the Lakers fanbase can be on their own players. He experienced it firsthand and isn’t holding back his thoughts.
Since D’Angelo Russell’s trade from the Lakers to the Brooklyn Nets, Beverley has become more vocal about his former team and its fanbase. In an earlier tweet, he pointed out how Lakers fans are quick to tear down players who don’t shoot well immediately, mentioning Russell Westbrook, Malik Beasle, and Taurean Prince as examples.
and if we’re being honest the moment he doesn’t shoot well lakers fans go destroy him.
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TPit’s yal on twitter that be killing players so don’t get mad. https://t.co/RrDUAFNfil
— Patrick Beverley (@patbev21) December 30, 2024
On his podcast, Beverley kept the conversation going in the aftermath of the D’Lo trade, highlighting how harsh Lakers fans can be toward their own players. He argued that Lakers fans talk so bad about their players that it ends up hurting their trade value.
“The Laker fans, the real ones. they know basketball because they’ve seen it a lot, they’ve been through it a lot. What they don’t understand is their effect on making their own team better. They talk so bad about their players that they actually decrease their value.
So now when a trade comes (…) and any team like, we like we had Mark Cuban on he said it was plenty of teams that he would love to do deals with, if you want to make a trade with the Lakers, ain’t nobody just giving you sh*t. Any trade you have has to be that someone go ‘no we want this, no and we want this’ obviously because you’re the Lakers, no one’s trying to help the Los Angeles Lakers as far as trade wise, management wise, and getting players that they want back. Okay cool, we know you guys want this guy? He’s a second round to every other team but to the Lakers he’s two first rounds, f*ck it. No one’s trying to help the Lakers.”
