Patrick Beverley on Lakers fans: They talk so bad about their players that they actually decrease their trade value

Patrick Beverley: The Laker fans, the real ones. they know basketball because they've seen it a lot, they've been through it a lot. What they don't understand is their effect on making their own team better. They talk so bad about their players that they actually decrease their value. So now when a trade comes (…) and any team like, we like we had Mark Cuban on he said it was plenty of teams that he would love to do deals with, if you want to make a trade with the Lakers, ain't nobody just giving you sh*t. Any trade you have has to be that someone go ‘no we want this, no and we want this’ obviously because you're the Lakers, no one's trying to help the Los Angeles Lakers as far as trade wise, management wise, and getting players that they want back. Okay cool, we know you guys want this guy? He's a second round to every other team but to the Lakers he's two first rounds, f*ck it. No one's trying to help the Lakers.

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