It happened at a birthday party.
Milwaukee Bucks’ Patrick Beverley and Damian Lillard were celebrating teammate Bobby Portis’s birthday when the two committed to fixing their fractured relationship.
On a recent episode of The Pat Bev Podcast, Beverley pointed out that Lillard was the one who made the first move.
“We go to Bobby Portis’ birthday party,” Beverley said. “Dame goes, ‘What’s up, Pat?’ Mind you, this is two games into playing with each other. ‘Sup Dame, you aight?’ ‘I’m good, I’m good. Hey, we need to sit down and talk.’”
Beverley then told Lillard, “F--- talking, let’s just go out to dinner.”
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“He sees me now. He sees me as a player, coworker,” continued Beverley. “He sees me in a light that he hasn’t seen me in before.”
Beverley and Lillard have a competitive history dating back to Beverley’s days in Los Angeles and Lillard's days in Portland, when the two players frequently exchanged snippy barbs on Twitter and even trolled each other on the court.
After Beverley was sent to the Bucks by the Philadelphia 76ers ahead of this year’s trade deadline, many fans wondered how he would fare playing alongside an embittered rival in Lillard.
Beverley initially teased a truce with Lillard, saying on his podcast, “I gotta get my relationship right with Dame… It’s time to win a championship.”
It would seem as though Lillard heard his comments.
The Bucks (37–21) sit in third place in the Eastern Conference and will play the Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday.
