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Somebody gets some cash up their ass as Los Angeles Lakers guard Patrick Beverley transforms into a real Grinch. Earlier this week, on the Pat Bev Podcast, the 34-year-old three-time All-Defense Team member told listeners that he’s already informed his kids that Santa Claus isn’t real. HUMBUG!
Beverly has four children – two boys, two girls. The age of Beverley’s eldest child, daughter Adlaia, is reportedly uncertain, but she is rumored to have been born in 2007, very shortly before the birthday of Beverley’s eldest son – Everett – on May 10, 2007. It is certain, both Adlaia accept and Everett were already aware of the cruel reality of Kris Kringle’s non-existence. Beverley’s other children are reportedly aged seven and four, although this is unconfirmed. Not much is known about Beverly’s personal life. They definitely believed in St. Nick. They were probably the ones trying to stay up late and catch Santa coming down the chimney. They were probably the ones who looked forward to Christmas the most each year. But Beverly just couldn’t allow the excitement.
“The presents you all get aren’t from Santa, they’re from me,” Beverley said on the show. YES! Talk about informing them gently. I doubt Beverley actually broke the news to his kids like that, but if he did, on my word. I don’t know how a young child so full of Christmas cheer would react to that.
According to Bev, after breaking the news to his son, “it looked like I killed him or something… He got destroyed.” YOU THINK? You just destroyed his whole world. His entire belief system for his favorite holiday just went down the drain, reduced to atoms, wiped out. All the happy feelings he once had at Christmas because he believed that there was someone in the world who was ready to give presents to everyone in the world are gone. Now he’s under the impression that no one is ready to do something nice for everyone on December 25th.
Beverley also took pleasure in this initiative and enjoyed the fact that he told his children that he also eats the food they leave for Santa every year. Beverley has even gone as far as making requests for specific drinks, opting for soda over milk for dietary reasons in recent years. Beverley told all of this to his friends on the podcast with a huge grin on his face. I get that you don’t stick to tradition, but come on man, I feel at least a little bad about it.
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Make children believe in fantasies. After all, Pat Bev, you clearly believe you deserve a roster spot in the NBA after averaging 4.2 points per game on 27.1 percent shooting in 18 games this year. I’m kidding, of course, but man, the Grinch really hit Beverley hard. I hope that one day his heart grows three sizes and he can avoid spoiling the fun of other children or grandchildren in his life.
