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‘State your source’: Trae Young responds to Patrick Beverley with nearly 12-minute video
Patrick Beverley hasn’t played in an NBA game since May 2024, but that isn’t stopping him from stirring the pot.
The 12-year NBA guard responded to Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young on Wednesday after Young replied to a post from Beverley last week. In that initial post, Beverley weighed in on a question on X about why players go all-out in open runs during the summer but often show less intensity in the All-Star game.
Beverley wrote: “Because All-Stars take the game for granted. Not 1 All-Star on the court. good bump,” prompting a response from Young — a four-time All-Star — telling Beverley to “relax” and let players speak for themselves.
Four days later, Beverley addressed Young’s response on his podcast, saying, “I don’t think he’s won enough to even speak to me like that or tweet me like that.”
“He’s been to the playoffs three times. I’ve been to the playoffs nine [times]. He’s been in the NBA seven years. My first seven years I didn’t miss the playoffs at all in the Western Conference,” he said. “His rebuttal’s probably going to be, ‘Yeah you weren’t the main player on the team.’ Absolutely right. But this is why it’s a team.”
Beverley added that he had spoken to players who’d played with Young in Atlanta — and they told him they didn’t want to play there.
“They don’t think he’s a good leader. They don’t think he’s a good teammate. … Trae, you could score all the points you want,” he said. “You could make all the money you want. You could have all the leading assists you want. You could do all that. If you don’t win, that s— won’t matter. If you don’t win, when you retire, they’re going to forget your name. Fast, too.”
Pat Bev kept it 💯 with Trae Young pic.twitter.com/kkbrTx0njY
— Pat Bev Pod (@PatBevPod) September 17, 2025
Young had his own response later Wednesday in a nearly 12-minute video on X.
The Hawks guard said Beverley “doesn’t know what it’s like” to be in his shoes, and he responded to Beverley’s claims that former Hawks teammates said it was the “Trae’s Hawks,” not the Atlanta Hawks.
“State your source. Which teammate of mine told [you] that it’s the Trae Hawks, it ain’t the Atlanta Hawks?” Young said. “Because I would tell you myself, I have a lot of teammates I keep in touch with. A lot. A lot that I know you know. So I want you to state your source.”
Young noted several of the All-Star players Beverley teamed up with during his career, before referencing Beverley’s emotional celebration after defeating his former team, the LA Clippers, in a play-in game with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2022.
“We not even gonna talk about how we celebrate play-in wins,” he said. “I win play-in games on the road, and I’m ready to get to the playoffs. You win play-in games at home, and you standing on the scorer’s table acting like it’s a championship. We celebrate wins different, too.”
You know the bar.. @fromthepointTY pic.twitter.com/I9ikBg812H
— Trae Young (@TheTraeYoung) September 18, 2025
Young added that facing Beverley never intimidated him — and still doesn’t.
Young closed by saying he has “nothing but love” for Beverley and that Beverley could reach him through former teammates if he wanted to connect.
“Or if you want to just keep talking about it, you can keep talking about it,” he said.
The episode concluded with the early seconds of Drake’s 2013 track “Tuscan Leather.” In the song, Drake raps: “Bench players talkin’ like starters, I hate it,” a line Young seemingly referenced during the podcast.
“I know a lot of people wanted me probably just to listen to that Drake song and post that bar. We all know how that goes,” he said.
The Hawks added fuel to the fire Thursday by posting a compilation video of Young scoring against Beverley in prior matchups.
— Atlanta Hawks (@ATLHawks) September 18, 2025
Thursday night, Beverley posted a video on YouTube responding to Young, saying the guard puts up “empty stats,” suggesting his numbers don’t always translate to wins and pointing to defensive shortcomings.
“Humble yourself. Embrace the constructive criticism,” Beverley said. “Get better at that and move the f— on. We don’t have to keep going back like this a motherf—ing YouTube debate. Like it ain’t that deep.”
Beverley then doubled down on his take that players don’t want to play in Atlanta, highlighting the turnover in coaches and front office staff. Young has played for three general managers and three full-time head coaches since being drafted in 2018.
“Everyone that comes sees Trae Young, they get thrown out the building by their collar, you hear me?” Beverley said. “Players come. They see you, they get traded. Coaches come. They coach you, they get traded. GMs come. They govern the team and then they get fired. Everyone that sees Trae Young gets fired. That’s the truth. … People are scared to play in Atlanta.”
Beverley questioned Young’s leadership and claimed he never sees Young working out at a team facility, unlike Beverley’s other former star teammates, who Beverley saw work out at their respective team facilities.
“If I’m working out in Houston, James Harden is in Houston working out,” Beverley said. “Not James Harden is working out at another place. Every time we see you, you’re working out at another place. We never see you in the Hawks arena working out.”
Despite the criticism, Beverley hopes the exchanges have been productive.
“Regardless how it goes, it’s going to be good that comes out of this,” Beverley said. “Regardless. I hope this is motivating. I hope that you get to the end of the year and you fighting for a motherf—ing playoff. I hope, I hope that this is so f—ing motivating that this take you to the Eastern Conference [finals].”
In seven regular-season matchups, Beverley holds the edge with a 4-3 record.
Young averaged 25.3 points, 9.8 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 1 steal when the two faced off, while Beverley put up 8.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game.
Karim Benzema said he wants to bring trophies to his new Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal, which he called the “Real Madrid in Asia.”
The French forward turned down a contract extension to remain at Al Ittihad beyond June and instead joined Saudi Pro League leaders Al Hilal on Monday.
Speaking for the first time since his move, the former Madrid captain and 2022 Ballon d’Or winner told the club’s website: “It’s good. I’m happy to be here. After my first training with the team, with the coach, I’m so happy and glad to be a part of this team.
“It’s a good team, with a good history. They have won a lot of trophies.
“It’s similar, like Real Madrid in Asia. Everything is good, the fans are good, they play well, they have good players, they have a good mentality.
“I liked this team from before. I used to play against them with Madrid and it was not an easy game. It was a good game so I have good memories. Today I’m happy because I’m a player of Al Hilal.”
According to sources, Benzema, 38, felt disrespected with the contract extension Al Ittihad had offered him.
The Al Ittihad deal from the Saudi Pro League, which handles the contracts of the main players in PIF(Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund)-owned clubs, would effectively have seen the veteran striker play for free, sources said.
Benzema, who had offers from European clubs, decided to stay in Saudi Arabia, partly because his image rights deal there is until 2030.
His move to Al Hilal, which PIF orchestrated, has reportedly angered Benzema’s former Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, who captains rivals Al Nassr.
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According to sources, Ronaldo refused to play for his club on Monday in protest because PIF was not investing enough in Al Nassr and instead was giving an advantage to Al Hilal.
Ronaldo is looking to win his first major title with Al Nassr and his team are second in the Saudi Pro League standings, one point adrift of Al Hilal.
Benzema, who was instrumental in Al Ittihad winning the league crown and the King’s Cup last season, said he is hungry for more silverware.
“[It’s a] clear message,” he said. “You know my mentality. I have a lot of ambition. I will work, I will give everything on the pitch. I will help this team and, inshallah, win trophies. For me it’s more important to bring trophies. As I said before, we have a good team, good fans and together, inshallah, we will do it.”
Benzema arrived in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2023 having won 25 trophies with Madrid, including four LaLiga, three Copa del Rey, and five Champions League titles.
He has eight goals in 14 league games this season.
His first game with Al Hilal will be Thursday’s league encounter at Al Okhdood.
Although Floyd Mayweather Jr. made hundreds of millions of dollars during his professional boxing career and topped the Forbes list as the highest-paid athlete from 2012 to 2014, the boxer said he has been shortchanged and filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Showtime.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday and obtained by ESPN, seeks to “recover hundreds of millions of dollars in misappropriated funds and damages resulting from a long-running and elaborate scheme of financial fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and conspiracy orchestrated by Floyd J. Mayweather’s former manager and advisor, Al Haymon, with the knowing and substantial participation and aid of Defendants Showtime Networks Inc. and Stephen Espinoza, among others.”
Mayweather, 48, claims to be owed “at least” $340 million and cites a “complex web of hidden accounts, unauthorized transactions and deliberate concealment of financial records” as the reason he believes he has been defrauded from those funds.
Haymon is not named as a defendant in the complaint.
Espinoza didn’t respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.
In 2013, Mayweather signed a 30-month, six-fight deal with Showtime that was, at the time, the richest for an individual athlete. He fought Robert Guerrero, Canelo Alvarez, Marcos Maidana (twice), Manny Pacquiao and Andre Berto during that deal and also faced UFC superstar Conor McGregor on Showtime PPV.
Mayweather fought eight times on Showtime PPV, with the Pacquiao bout still standing as the highest-grossing pay-per-view in history with over 4.4 million purchases and $410 million in revenue generated. Mayweather reportedly earned around $250 million for that fight alone.
In the lawsuit, Mayweather claims Showtime and Espinoza worked in tandem to divert the boxer’s earnings into accounts controlled by Haymon and failed to provide financial transparency. Mayweather claims that he has “suffered enormous financial harm” and is missing at least $340 million from his reported $1.2 billion in career fight purses.
Mayweather retired from professional boxing in 2017 with a 50-0 record but has competed in several exhibitions since.
An exhibition fight with Mike Tyson was announced last September for Spring 2026, but no date or location has materialized since. Reports surfaced Tuesday that Mayweather would face K-1 kickboxing legend Mike Zambidis on June 27 in Greece, but there has been no formal announcement of that fight either.
ESPN’s Michael Rothstein contributed to this report.
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PM says Pakistan will not play against India in T20 World Cup, calls for politics-free sports
- Pakistan stands in solidarity with Bangladesh after ICC expels team.
- Politics should have no place in the field of sports: PM Shehbaz.
- Pakistan team currently in Sri Lanka to participate in T20 World Cup.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif confirmed on Wednesday that Pakistan will not play against India in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, emphasising that the decision was made after much deliberation.
“Politics should have no place in the field of sports,” the prime minister said while explaining Pakistan’s stance on the 20-team tournament. He made the statement while addressing the federal cabinet meeting.
He further stressed that the country should stand with Bangladesh in the matter.
Pakistan had decided to boycott the February 15 match against arch-rivals India to show solidarity with Bangladesh, which the International Cricket Council (ICC) kicked out of the tournament after rejecting Bangladesh Cricket Board’s (BCB) request to move their matches to a venue outside India.
The cricketing body then replaced Bangladesh with Scotland in the tournament, stating that it was not feasible to revise the schedule so close to the February 7 — start of the World Cup.
Meanwhile, multiple other factors influenced Pakistan’s decision to boycott the match, including ICC’s perceived biased stance towards Bangladesh playing a central role, with government sources noting that the Pakistani team was instructed not to take the field against India on February 15 as “a form of protest”.
The sources said that ICC chief Jay Shah’s partial decisions had effectively turned the International Cricket Council into an extension of the Indian cricket board.
They further said that these biased decisions have undermined the principles of fairness and equality, accusing the ICC of applying different standards to different countries on its platform.
Since then, the ICC, in its statement, has expressed hope that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would work towards a “mutually acceptable resolution”.
While recognising the prerogative of national governments, the ICC publicly urged the PCB to reconsider, arguing that the decision harms the sport and its global fanbase.
The council encouraged the Pakistani board to pursue a mutually acceptable solution that protects the interests of all stakeholders in the game, saying that the boycott decision was not “in the interest of the global game or the welfare of fans worldwide, including millions in Pakistan”.
Currently, the national team is present in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to partake in the highly anticipated T20 World Cup, scheduled to be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India from February 7 to March 8.
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