NBA Twitter is quite the place. It’ll build a narrative, get some traction and then spin that biased narrative to a specific audience over and over. My favorite lie that NBA Twitter has told is that Patrick Beverly is the most hated player in the NBA, that he’s a bum, and something something trick y’all, something something just running around.
Those viral moments are funny and sometimes stick, even if wildly untrue. But again, it’s an easy narrative to drive on social media to an audience that is into those sorts of things. To be fair, some of the slander is self-inflicted. There’s undoubtedly some calculated trolling within Beverley’s willingness to do whatever it takes to win, and that gets under people’s skin. But Pat Bev seems to embrace it.
