'Luka Was Cooking Me!': Patrick Beverley Believes in Mavs Ahead of Game 7

Patrick Beverley has been a Dallas Mavericks nemesis over the last few years, but he's rolling with Luka Doncic in Game 7 against the Phoenix Suns on Sunday.

Dalton Trigg | May 15, 2022

The Dallas Mavericks and their fans have had their fair share of beef with pesky point guard Patrick Beverley over the years. Beverley, who formerly played for the Los Angeles Clippers and currently plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves, has been a thorn in Luka Doncic's side since the 2020 NBA Bubble, despite Doncic usually getting the better of him on the court.

However, Mavs fans might have to soften their stance against Beverley after he made his prediction for Dallas and the Phoenix Suns' Game 7 on Sunday.

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"I gotta go with... I just faced him last year. Boy was cooking me. Gotta go with Luka. Got to," said Beverley on ESPN's NBA Today. "He's played in Game 7. Besides [Chris Paul], I don't think anyone on the [Suns'] roster has played in a Game 7. ... I have to go with Luka, man. He's been playing well and Dallas has been on a roll."

Although the Mavs are still underdogs to many, having the best player in the series in Doncic, paired with Chris Paul's history of blowing 2-0 seres leads, has a lot of people giving Dallas a fighting chance in the decisive Game 7.

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Will Doncic, who has put up big numbers all series, finally have a good shooting night on the biggest stage he's played on yet? Can the Mavs' role players bring their A-games on the road for the first time in this series and "punch them in the mouth" as Reggie Bullock put it? Will Scott Foster show up to ruin the party for CP3 once again?

One of Doncic's biggest rivals believes in the Mavs, so why shouldn't we all?

Published May 15, 2022

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.