Clippers guard Patrick Beverley has been suspended by the NBA for one game without pay, the league has announced in a statement (via Twitter).
Beverley shoved All-Star Suns guard Chris Paul in the back during a pause in play with 5:49 left, with the game already out of hand in a blowout 130-103 Game 6 Phoenix victory on Thursday, June 30. At the time, Beverley was given a technical foul and ejected from action.
The press release goes on to note that Beverley will be suspended for the first game of the upcoming 2021/22 season in which he would otherwise be able to take the floor (so if he’s injured, the suspension will apply once he’s healthy). The NBA called Beverley’s behavior an “unsportsmanlike act.”
As we mentioned earlier today, some level of suspension for Beverley had been anticipated.
Beverley, 32, has one year and $14.3MM left on his current deal with L.A. During an injury-plagued 2020/21 season, Beverley appeared in just 37 contests (starting 34) with the club, averaging 7.5 PPG, 3.2 RPG, and 2.1 APG across 22.5 MPG. These were his lowest numbers in each of these categories since his 2012/13 rookie NBA season.
Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets that Beverley will lose $98,765 as a result of this one-game suspension.
surprised he wasnt banished to the china league
It should have been 3-5 games.
It should be more than one game. Just for this incident it was a cowardly and cheap move, the only ones he knows. Paul could have gone flat on his face and been seriously injured. This the game after he mocked him after he came down hard on his tailbone. He is a cheap shot artist and an antagonistic punk plain and simple. He does crap like this all the time. His body of work on top of what happened in game 6 should have warranted 5-10 games. He misses multiple game checks maybe he will grow up and stop acting like such a goon. It’s doubtful he ever will but it’s worth a shot.
Dale Hunter of the Washington Capitals (one of the dirtiest players in NHL history) was suspended for 21 games because of a similar incident that happened during the 1993 playoffs.
It happened after the game was over. He should have been charged with assault and arrested. If a fan or a coach or a security guard or anyone else in the arena did the exact same thing, he would still be in jail.
The act should be punished —whether Paul got seriously hurt or not. One game suspension is a joke
To anyone else, sure. But hall monitor snitch CP3 deserved that.
Marty deserves a ban, but does he get it?
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This is a bad precedent….should be something more serious than 1 game. What happens the next time someone gets upset and decides they are ok with losing a single game check? I know most people have more class or honor than to physically attack someone from behind when they aren’t looking, but this “punishment” sends a message that the league is more or less ok with it.
You sound like you dont know how things work lol
“If a guy is ok with losing his check he can shove anyone!” yeah, so? That’s called accountability.
That shove was DECADES in the making and the most deserving move of all-time, CP3 himself was probably ok with it.
Be more concerned where that money not going to the suspended player goes, because no one really knows and the crooked NBA front office refuses to show their books.
You sound like you can’t understand simple concepts like precedent or cause and effect. This wasn’t just a shove or even a fight, which happens, this was attacking someone in the back when play was stopped. Set aside your dislike for CP3 – imagine this happened to Steph Curry. If Curry is on one of his insane hot streaks, just have your 12th guy on the bench sucker punch him. He’ll only be out 1 game, pay his fine for him, and you’re golden. That’s why there has to be ACTUAL accountability for this; a slap on the wrist and half-@$$ed Twitter apology isn’t enough.
Obviously the average NBA player’s reach would pose a problem, but for a bunch of world class athletes very few come across as being intimidating (at least based off the ones that have been involved in on-court physical altercations). Most look like a couple sissies getting into a catfight.
I can guarantee you 100% of NBA players can absolutely destroy 99.9% of the American population 1-on-1 in a fight. Did you not see the “Zion fighting 10 dudes and easily winning” video? The NBA is a professional league, they’re not supposed to be fighting, its not real life, its their job, hence all the half assing when it comes to altercations.
You cannot be more than 14 years old. Pat Bev would destroy you in the streets.
Here’s how I see it…the incident “could” have resulted in a serious injury. The punishment does not fit the crime. A more severe punishment is indicated and the NBA should revisit this incident. I think the game deserves that much!
Bev shoving the hall monitor was the only positive thing that’s happened these entire playoffs.
Looks like Marty’s gonna take this tread as an opportunity to show us what a tough guy he is.
I was thinking the same thing about Marty beating into the ground what a fake tough guy he is himself haha
I feel like people see this one of two ways, mostly. Either you think it’s just a shove and no big deal, and that people should get over it. Or… You’re like me. I think that Patrick Beverley is a sore loser, and he knows it’s wrong to do that. Yet he does it anyways. When people deliberately break the rules and don’t care…. There’s no amount of punishment that I consider too much. I just despise classless people like that. You could suspend him for 10 games, 20 games, a whole season. It wouldn’t bother me. Forget the league, the world doesn’t need people like that.
He makes 98,765 a game??? That’s insane.
I’ve got to disagree with Marty: The fact that the Celtics and the Clippers have both finally been eliminated counts as a very positive thing in my book.
Let’s not forget LAL and Marty’s Warriors are eliminated too. That’s even more positive.
Pat and Marty, punks. Of course one would defend the other.
I never fully understood all the flak Marty got on this app until this thread. Yikes.