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Los Angeles Clippers guard Patrick Beverley is no doubt one of the toughest guys in the league right now. However, as it turns out, the 31-year-old veteran actually has a soft spot for young kids who struggle to survive in the streets.
According to Beverley, who himself is no stranger to growing up in poverty, one of his main motivations for playing ball is to serve as an inspiration to these underprivileged and often times troubled kids. Having grown up in the mean streets of Chicago, Illinois, Beverley always stays true to his roots, using his turbulent past as motivation to perform at his best day in and day out.
“I never act like something I'm not. If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets,” Patrick Beverley says, via Mirin Fader of Bleacher Report. “I'm saying that to shine light upon the fact that it's f–ked up out here. To even have that mindset, an all-or-nothing mindset.
“It's 10 million kids just like me. Kids in New York, in Chicago, in L.A., in Oakland, in Atlanta, who go through the same thing and don't make it out; they don't have a voice,” he says. “I speak for them. I hoop for them.”
As Beverley insinuates here, he is extremely lucky to have been able to walk away from a life on the streets. He had his outstanding basketball talent working for him, but as he said, there are millions of kids out there who aren't as blessed as he is.
