Given how toxic NBA discourse can be, we are probably all immune to the most asinine takes in basketball at this point.
The Philadelphia 76ers have more than their fair share of imbecilic narratives veiling them at present, which is probably not the least surprising happenstance in view of the kind of season they turned in as a collective this season. From Joel Embiid apparently being the 84th-best player in the NBA to Tyrese Maxey being an unviable sidekick all of a sudden, 76ers fans have already lost count of these moronic bits.
Looking around the league, things do not get any better. Most prominent of all was the infamous anonymous poll among some NBA players which somehow spawned a forced narrative that Tyrese Haliburton is the most overrated player in the league — a blatant falsehood that the superstar immediately crushed after sending the Pacers to the Finals.
Now, it seems like all NBA fans can jot down another entry in their abstract journal of “things that should be kept between you and your friends”. But this time, the 76ers are somehow at the scene of the crime.
Former 76ers vet Patrick Beverley drops a big candidate for the wildest take ever
Former 76ers guard Patrick Beverley certainly loves to talk, and he is far from being someone who will hesitate to pull the trigger. That was clearly apparent from his 12-year career in the league — one marked by ceaseless trashtalking and kerfuffles.
Beverley, however, is taking things up a notch this time. Touching on potential Hall of Famers in his latest podcast, the outspoken guard may have just dropped the wildest take ever.
”People talk about Blake Griffin being in the Hall of Fame, and I’m looking like, how? No discredit to Blake Griffin, but I’m looking like, how? I took the Clippers to the Western Conference Finals for the first time ever. Like, if I would’ve dunked more, does that mean I would’ve made the Hall of Fame?“
Yes, that was an actual quote by a player who finished his career averaging just a shade above eight points per game.
Sure, Beverley’s impact was felt on the non-scoring departments, but him equating imself to someone like Blake Griffin — a perennial All-Star who definitely was a huge force in the league for quite a while — is simply disingenuous.
Griffin was marred by injuries left and right to end his career, but that does not take away from his body of work across 13 seasons in the association as a six-time All-Star and a member of the All-NBA team five times.
The former Philadelphia 76ers guard is just sourgraping at this point, because no reasonable mind would even put him in the same room, more so the same stratosphere, as the future Hall of Famer.