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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.
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The baseball world is mourning the loss of a player who made history with the Detroit Tigers.
Mickey Lolich, remembered as the Tigers’ hero in the 1968 World Series, has died, the Tigers announced. He was 85. Lolich is the last MLB pitcher to win three games in the league’s championship series, the World Series. He was named World Series MVP that year.
The Tigers said Lolich’s wife informed the franchise that Lolich was recently in hospice care. The cause of death was not released.
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FILE – In this Oct. 3, 1968, file photo, Mickey Lolich of the Detroit Tigers is shown pitching during the second game of the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Missouri. (AP Photo/File)
Lolich is No. 23 on the all-time career strikeouts list with 2,832 punchouts.
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Lolich was an unlikely star of the Tigers 1968 title run. During a reunion of the World Series team, he recalled how manager Mayo Smith had sent him to the bullpen for much of August. He returned to the Tigers’ starting rotation and was 6-1 in the final weeks.
“I was having a few problems, but I had been a starting pitcher ever since 1964,” said Lolich, who was upset about the bullpen move. “I remember telling him, ‘If we win this thing this year it’s going to be because of me.’ But I was only talking about the season. I wasn’t talking about the World Series.
“I got my revenge back in the World Series,” he said.
FILE – Mickey Lolich, pitcher of Detroit Tigers poses for a photo, March 1968. (AP Photo, File)
Lolich pitched Game 7 after only two days of rest. He figured he would get a Corvette from General Motors for being the Series MVP but had to settle for a Dodge Charger GT because Chrysler was the sponsor in 1968.
“Nothing against Chargers, nothing at all,” Lolich said in his book, “Joy in Tigertown.” “It’s just that I already had two of them in my driveway.”
Since Lolich, only two pitchers have won three games in a single World Series: Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2001 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2025. But they pitched fewer innings and got their third victories in relief.
FILE – Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Tigers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, March 30, 2018, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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In a statement, the Tigers expressed condolences to Lolich’s family and said his legacy “will forever be cherished.”
After his baseball career, Lolich went into the doughnut business in the Detroit suburbs, making and selling them for 18 years.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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The Philadelphia 76ers traded guard Jared McCain to the Oklahoma City Thunder for a 2026 Rockets first-round pick and three second-round picks, the teams announced Wednesday.
One of the second-round picks heading to the Sixers is for 2027 (most favorable of picks via OKC/Houston/Indiana/Miami) and two are for 2028 (via OKC, Milwaukee), sources told ESPN’s Shams Charania.
McCain, the 16th overall pick in the 2024 draft, joins the reigning NBA champions after averaging 6.6 points, 2.0 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 38.5% shooting in 16.8 minutes per game for the Sixers this season.
He made his season debut on Nov. 4 after suffering a torn ligament in his right (shooting) thumb during a workout just prior to the Sixers’ season-opening media day. McCain, 21, missed most of his rookie season after having season-ending surgery for a torn meniscus in December 2024.
For the 76ers, the trade allows them to receive assets, clear space in the glut of guards and give them flexibility to bring Quentin Grimes back in free agency. It also allows them to convert two-way Dominick Barlow.
The trade comes on the heels of Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander suffering an abdominal strain during Tuesday’s game against the Orlando Magic. He will be reevaluated following the All-Star break.
The Thunder later sent Ousmane Dieng and a 2029 second-round pick (most favorable of picks from Atlanta/Miami) to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Mason Plumlee. Dieng was then re-routed by the Hornets to the Bulls in another deal.
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.
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