'State your source': Trae Young responds to Patrick Beverley with nearly 12-minute video

Patrick Beverley hasn't played successful an NBA crippled since May 2024, but that isn't stopping him from stirring the pot.

The 12-year NBA defender responded to Atlanta Hawks prima Trae Young connected Wednesday aft Young replied to a station from Beverley past week. In that archetypal post, Beverley weighed successful connected a question connected X astir wherefore players spell all-out successful unfastened runs during the summertime but often amusement little strength successful the All-Star game.

Beverley wrote: "Because All-Stars instrumentality the crippled for granted. Not 1 All-Star connected the court. bully bump," prompting a effect from Young -- a four-time All-Star -- telling Beverley to "relax" and fto players talk for themselves.

Four days later, Beverley addressed Young's effect connected his podcast, saying, "I don't deliberation he's won capable to adjacent talk to maine similar that oregon tweet maine similar that."

"He's been to the playoffs 3 times. I've been to the playoffs 9 [times]. He's been successful the NBA 7 years. My archetypal 7 years I didn't miss the playoffs astatine each successful the Western Conference," helium said. "His rebuttal's astir apt going to be, 'Yeah you weren't the main subordinate connected the team.' Absolutely right. But this is wherefore it's a team."

Beverley added that helium had spoken to players who'd played with Young successful Atlanta -- and they told him they didn't privation to play there.

"They don't deliberation he's a bully leader. They don't deliberation he's a bully teammate. ... Trae, you could people each the points you want," helium said. "You could marque each the wealth you want. You could person each the starring assists you want. You could bash each that. If you don't win, that s--- won't matter. If you don't win, erstwhile you retire, they're going to hide your name. Fast, too."

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Young had his ain effect aboriginal Wednesday successful a astir 12-minute video connected X.

The Hawks defender said Beverley "doesn't cognize what it's like" to beryllium successful his shoes, and helium responded to Beverley's claims that erstwhile Hawks teammates said it was the "Trae's Hawks," not the Atlanta Hawks.

"State your source. Which teammate of excavation told [you] that it's the Trae Hawks, it ain't the Atlanta Hawks?" Young said. "Because I would archer you myself, I person a batch of teammates I support successful interaction with. A lot. A batch that I cognize you know. So I privation you to authorities your source."

Young noted respective of the All-Star players Beverley teamed up with during his career, earlier referencing Beverley's emotional celebration aft defeating his erstwhile team, the LA Clippers, successful a play-in crippled with the Minnesota Timberwolves successful 2022.

"We not adjacent gonna speech astir however we observe play-in wins," helium said. "I triumph play-in games connected the road, and I'm acceptable to get to the playoffs. You triumph play-in games astatine home, and you lasting connected the scorer's array acting similar it's a championship. We observe wins different, too."

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Young added that facing Beverley ne'er intimidated him -- and inactive doesn't.

Young closed by saying helium has "nothing but love" for Beverley and that Beverley could scope him done erstwhile teammates if helium wanted to connect.

"Or if you privation to conscionable support talking astir it, you tin support talking astir it," helium said.

The occurrence concluded with the aboriginal seconds of Drake's 2013 way "Tuscan Leather." In the song, Drake raps: "Bench players talkin' similar starters, I hatred it," a enactment Young seemingly re...