Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we take a look at Patrick Beverley.
To call Patrick Beverley a polarizing player would be a preposterous understatement.
For his teammates, Beverley’s ability to irritate and instigate beef with opponents is a boon, directing emotional attention away from them and onto himself. For his opponents, and opposing fans for that matter, the exact opposite is true.