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JJ Redick Destroys Patrick Beverley's James Harden Comments

Two former LA Clippers players have continued their back and forth over Doc Rivers

Joey Linn

JJ Redick Destroys Patrick Beverley's James Harden Comments
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During a recent segment of First Take, former LA Clippers guard JJ Redick called out Doc Rivers, saying, "I've seen the trend for years. The trend is always making excuses. Doc, we get it. Taking over a team in the middle of a season is hard... But it's always an excuse. It's always throwing your team under the bus... There's never accountability with that guy."

This sparked a back and forth between Redick and Patrick Beverley, who took turns responding to one another on X (formerly known as Twitter). Beverley, who also played under Rivers in Los Angeles, and is again with him as a new member of the Milwaukee Bucks, defended his coach from Redick's comments.

Taking this conversation to his podcast, Beverley called out Redick again, saying, "Should [Doc Rivers] be accountable and be like, you know what? Let me get JJ Redick off James Harden. If I’m being honest, he should have started Jamal Crawford."

Wasting little time, Redick destroyed these comments from Beverley, pulling the defensive data from that 2015 series to prove that his defense on James Harden was not the reason the Clippers blew a 3-1 lead:

Even without these numbers, Beverley's comments made little sense. Not only did Crawford play poorly in that series, but Houston's comeback in Game 6 came predominately with James Harden on the bench.

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Joey Linn
JOEY LINN

Joey Linn is a credentialed writer covering the NBA for Sports Illustrated's FanNation. Covering the LA Clippers independently in 2018, then for Fansided and 213Hoops from 2019-2021, Joey joined Sports Illustrated's FanNation to cover the Clippers after the 2020-21 season. Graduating from Biola University in 2022 with a Communication Studies degree, Joey served as Biola's play-by-play announcer for their basketball, baseball, softball, and soccer teams during his time in school. Joey's work on Biola's broadcasts, combined with his excellence in the classroom, earned him the Outstanding Communication Studies Student of the year award in 2022. Joey covers the NBA full-time across multiple platforms, primarily serving as a credentialed Clippers beat writer.

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