IT WAS THE preseason opener, but one part of Patrick Beverley's game was in midseason form.
It was Oct. 6, Beverley's Sixers debut after signing a one-year contract for this season, when the antagonist point guard rose -- or, rather, lowered -- to the occasion after a bucket early in the third quarter.
Beverley drove the lane, ball-faked after picking up his dribble on the left block, and pivoted into a pretty jump hook over 6-foot-6 Boston Celtics wing Jaylen Brown. One stride into his jogging strut back down the floor, Beverley leaned over and extended his left arm toward the floor, his hand parallel to the ground.