And it’s not like the Knicks didn’t need the help at point guard. Over the past three seasons, Walker has played fewer and fewer games, bottoming out last season with just 37 games played as a Knick a career low. The question is how much of that All-Star caliber player still exists? He was a former All-Star and had some truly great years in Charlotte. Walker is certainly a player who carries some cachet. Now you want to bring in one of the players Luka has shown an outward distaste for? And you want them to go to work together every day? How much is too much? Patrick Beverley, as a 31-year-old, 6’1” point guard, simply doesn’t justify the baggage he brings to a roster. They’ve seemingly REFUSED on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS to bring in his Slovenian teammate and mentor Goran Dragic despite him being one of the only players in recent history to outright say he’d like to play in Dallas. They let his national Team coach escape to Brooklyn. Dallas has moved on from Luka-friendly players like Salah Mejri, Boban Marjanovic, and Jalen Brunson. I’m sure if you asked Luka, he would say there’s no bad blood, but look at the context. Sure, Beverley has since gone on to give Luka his flowers, calling him the toughest player to guard in the NBA, yadda yadda yadda. And that’s a guy who was constantly antagonizing Luka Doncic from the bench for two straight years as a Clipper when the two teams faced off in the postseason. In many ways, this PBev is still who we thought he was. This airing of dirty laundry no doubt rubbed some players the wrong way, and at least one - Damian Lillard - said so publicly.īut that’s just the latest example of Patrick Beverley’s grating behavior.
What perhaps was once good-natured gamesmanship and “hard-nosed” defensive edge have aged into petty squabbles and tea-spilling on ESPN after getting booted from the playoffs. Having accomplished that, he’s said to have had a good game. His entire raison d’être, seemingly, isn’t so much to be a good basketball player per se but to simply be as annoying as possible. That’s a “you” problem.Įntering his 11th NBA season, the inimitable PBev is more internet meme factory troll than viable NBA point guard.
#NO THOUGHTS HEAD EMPTY MEME SERIES#
You think he had a pretty good series with Minnesota and liked how emotional he got about claiming the West’s 7th seed. Here are three backup ball handlers whose addition to the roster would Joker-ize me entirely. I’m here to tell you that you can ask for more. It’s made us think we should be happy with whatever we can get.
#NO THOUGHTS HEAD EMPTY MEME FREE#
This Maverick fanbase, perhaps more than any other, bears some of the ugliest free agency scars in the league. But here’s another that I think is likely the most fitting – hurt people hurt people. Any number of platitudes apply to Dallas’ current roster impasse. That empty void on the roster begging to be filled has Maverick faithful truly desperate. Spencer Dinwiddie likely will shoulder the brunt of those minutes, but the assumption that Dallas would look to bolster that spot after Brunson’s exit have so far gone unfulfilled. Things started poorly with breakout guard Jalen Brunson walking out the door for nothing and leaving a glaring hole in the ball handler rotation. And there’s ever-present electricity in the air as pundits and fans alike await the shoe-drop of a potential Kevin Durant trade. The NBA offseason has produced some truly mind-boggling moments – namely the huge haul Minnesota unloaded for Rudy Gobert. We are in the absolute dregs of the summer.
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