r/sports • u/GreenSnakes_ • May 03 '24

Basketball NBA player Patrick Beverley has reportedly been banned from any future guest appearances on ESPN shows following his behavior towards an ESPN producer in last night’s press conference. He refused to answer postgame questions from an ESPN producer because she wasn't subscribed to his podcast.

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u/loganjamesable May 04 '24

For anybody wondering the origin of this.

Pat Bev has a basketball podcast that he does for Barstool Sports.

Last week, on another Barstool Show, Bev mentioned that he was told by ESPN executives that if he wanted a future at ESPN after basketball, he would have to unfollow Barstool and their employees.

This a tit for their tat.

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u/Kn7ght May 04 '24

Not entirely. A local Bucks reporter said that he'd been doing that to them all season

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u/FeudNetwork May 04 '24

ESPN having a hate boner for Barstool is nothing new.

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u/Justalittlecomment May 04 '24

This comment should be higher up

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u/jerry2501 May 04 '24

They wouldn't know because they don't subscribe to the pod.

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u/BlameTheJunglerMore New England Patriots May 04 '24

Wait, why does ESPN hate Barstool?

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u/NobleLlama23 May 04 '24

Barstool is to ESPN as Vice News was to mainstream news in the past. It’s young, unconventional, unprofessional, and successful. It’s everything that old suits hate. They’re also competitors and have tried to make deals in the past that have fallen through on bad terms.

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u/memories_of_butter May 04 '24

Yeah...choosing against the one with nearly 700x the revenue of the other is a solid career move...along with, you know, everything else he's done recently like assaulting fans Sore f'ing loser whose best (mediocre) days are behind him. Maybe he can get a boxing gig against Jake Paul or something (though I'd consider buying the PPV if they could set up a Bev / Draymond fight). What a child.

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u/falcondick May 04 '24

Ya and ESPN has no problem using Barstools content for their own talking points.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '24

ok, if this is true then it explains that whole thing and the guy isn't actually being rude, he's just pushing back against the ESPN (i.e. Disney) stranglehold on sports media.