Daryl Morey addresses Patrick Beverley’s comments after Sixers trade
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia 76ers made quite a few moves at the deadline to help them on the floor at this moment as well as look forward to the future to make more moves.
One of those moves was trading Patrick Beverley to the Milwaukee Bucks for Cam Payne and a second-round pick. Beverley quickly became a fan-favorite in Philadelphia due to his hard-nosed play and his willingness to do whatever he took on a nightly basis to win basketball games.
After the trade, Beverley stated that President of Basketball Operations Daryl Morey told him that the Sixers weren’t going to trade him when the team was in Denver on Jan. 27 on their recent road trip.
Obviously, this isn’t the first time that a player has accused Morey of telling a lie. There was the big James Harden fiasco in the summer and there are now questions about Morey’s relationship with Beverley.
“I think my relationship with players and player-agents and people in the league is as high as any in the league,” said Morey. “I think Pat—I got a great relationship with him—he clarified what he said after he said it. I think if I was up here with Pat, it would be a very positive conversation.”
To Morey’s point, yes, Beverley tweeted that it was all love to Philadelphia as he now moves on from the Sixers to the Bucks. At the point of the deadline, things changed from that day in Denver and Morey had to make a move in order to get his team closer to a title.
“Obviously, what he’s referring to, yeah,” Morey added. “For sure, there were no plans at that point. It didn’t even seem on the radar, but we thought this was the best way to build a team. We saw his minutes going down and we thought it was best for him to be able to be in a place where he was gonna play a bigger role on a team and, here, we saw that role diminishing.”
