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Patrick Beverley on playing in Israel: ‘Now I know how LeBron James feels’

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Beverley, who is continuing his preparations for the new season with his team, made statements about the popularity he has gained with his new team on his own podcast, Pat Bev Pod. “Now I know how LeBron feels. I’m leaving a game and the players who were my opponents a moment ago want to take pictures with me. Even the opposing coaches want pictures. I go into a game and the opposing fans boo me when the ball is in my hands. After the game, 30-40 kids come up to me all of a sudden and want to take pictures with me. It’s the same in every country I’ve been to. Today we had a friendly in Belgrade, and I must have taken at least 50 pictures after the game.”
Source: EuroHoops.net

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Hear @Espngreeny tell @TheFrankIsola what company Caitlin Clark is in as she continues to shine during her rookie season
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Tommy Beer @TommyBeer
Per @bball_ref,
Most games with 20+ points, 5+ rebounds and 5+ assists by an NBA player
As a teenager:
1. LeBron James: 33 games
2. Luka Doncic: 17 games
In their 20s:
1. LeBron James: 570 games
2. Oscar Robertson: 526
In their 30s:
1. LeBron James: 513 games
2. Karl Malone: – 2:04 PM
Austin Krell @NBAKrell
ICYMI: I used the Joel Embiid-Steph Curry-LeBron James trio from Team USA as a proxy for what the Embiid-Paul George-Tyrese Maxey big 3 could look like under Nick Nurse’s design.
Launch day story for @OnPattison:
onpattison.com/news/2024/aug/… pic.x.com/zbaobijxtu – 10:00 AM

Eurohoops @Eurohoopsnet
Patrick Beverley feels like LeBron James in Hapoel:
“Even the opposing coaches want pictures”
#BKTEuroCup
eurohoops.net/en/eurocup/171… – 6:58 AM
CBS NBA @CBSSportsNBA
Stephen Curry says he wants to own NBA team after retiring, explains how Olympics deepened respect for LeBron
cbssports.com/nba/news/steph…
📷 – 12:59 PM
Kurt Helin @basketballtalk
Stephen Curry says he would like more chances to compete with LeBron, ‘even if we’re teammates or not’
(They won’t be teammates in the NBA)
nbcsports.com/nba/news/steph… – 12:52 PM
Kamenetzky Brothers @KamBrothers
Tuesday’s @LockedOnLakers podcast! We answer a viewer mailbag question about building around Anthony Davis post-LeBron. How feasible will this be? Plus, Dwight and Phil Handy think Pelinka should have run it back in 2020! @LockedOnNetwork @LockedOnNBAPods
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mai… – 12:03 PM
Jorge Sierra @hoopshype
Giannis Antetokounmpo has already received votes for 21 different end-of-season individual awards.
The only players with more:
LeBron James
Tim Duncan
Kevin Garnett
Kobe Bryant
Hakeem Olajuwon
Michael Jordan
Shaquille O’Neal
hoopshype.com/lists/nba-awar… – 5:57 PM
Todd Whitehead @CrumpledJumper
LeBron James draft-day time capsule.
Top song: 21 Questions
Top movie: Finding Nemo
Top phone: Nokio 1100
Top TV: CSI, Friends, Joe Millionaire, ER
Top stock: BestBuy
No. of Blockbuster franchises: 9,000
Price of gas: $1.51 pic.x.com/yd0kyhcfhp – 3:09 PM

Todd Whitehead @CrumpledJumper
LeBron has notched 10,000 points, 2,000 rebounds, and 2,000 assists for the Cavs (twice), Heat, and Lakers. Kareem is the only other player to do it for two different teams. pic.x.com/7vouqitfmf – 2:37 PM

StatMuse @statmuse
Trae Young last season:
— 25.7 PPG
— 10.8 APG
— 43/37/86%
— All-Star
First player to average 25/10a since LeBron in 2020. pic.x.com/w5m6jrmksd – 2:16 PM

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If you’re one of the few bright spots in a disastrous season for the Los Angeles Lakers, you might deserve to talk a little trash every now and then. That’s what Lakers guard Austin Reaves seems to do in his appearance on the new NBA2K25 video game, which sparked fan reactions online. In a snippet uploaded by 2K content creator Chris Smoove on X, formerly Twitter, Reaves claps back at Smoove’s MyPlayer (“MP”) for calling him a “wannabe role player.” Ironically, MP starts the video praising Reaves for how inspirational he was for going undrafted to starting with LeBron James. Then, Reaves gets spicy and brings up MP’s earlier comments and challenges him to back up his talk. -via Clutch Points / September 5, 2024
ClutchPoints: “I know how LeBron [James] feels. I leave games and the guys that I play against want pictures and the coaches that I play against want pictures. The fans that I go against that boo me… they all want pictures.” – Patrick Beverley (via @PatBevPod ) -via Twitter / September 4, 2024
Mike Breen: ‘Comparison is the thief of joy’, and I love that phrase and when you start saying okay who’s better? LeBron… You wind up having to criticize the one that you don’t pick and we’re criticizing one of the greatest to ever play the game, I never understood that. And the other thing is every era is different. LeBron James is the greatest player of his era, Kobe Bryant you can say in his era was there, Michael Jordan certainly. Go back to Kareem, go back to Wilt, go back to Bill Russell. The game is so different, it was played differently 20 years ago, 40 years ago, it was coached differently, it was officiated differently… To compare eras and say he’s better than that player or that player is the best of all time, I just I can’t do it. If you want to tell me that you think Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time, I’m gonna say can’t disagree with you. If you tell me LeBron, can’t disagree with you. You say Wilt Chamberlin I can’t disagree with any of them. They are all legendary generational-type players that to me it’s impossible to pick one over another. The way I always phrase it is, somebody asked me ‘Do you think LeBron James, because I’ve called so many of his games and it’s been an honor to call his games, do you think he’s the greatest of all time?’ I say I can’t say that, what I can say is he takes a backseat to no one. -via YouTube / September 4, 2024
Eurohoops: Patrick Beverley enjoying life in Tel Aviv 👀🔥 pic.x.com/nsmmwzzu3e -via Twitter @Eurohoopsnet / August 29, 2024