Beverley returns to the competition after a dozen seasons in the NBA
Hapoel Tel Aviv lands former EuroCup MVP Patrick Beverley
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Hapoel Tel Aviv has shocked basketball fans in Europe by signing playmaker Patrick Beverley, the club announced Tuesday.
Beverley (1.88 meters, 36 years old) joins the club from the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA, where he averaged 6.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 32 games for the franchise last season. He started the 2023-24 campaign with another NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers and posted 6.3 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 47 games.
The veteran point guard has been playing in the NBA since December 2012. In 666 regular-season games with the Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, Beverley has career averages of 8.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.4 assists.
He took part in 71 playoffs games, averaging 8.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.9 assists. He was named to the 2016-17 NBA All-Defensive First Team, earning NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors in the 2013-14 and 2019-20 campaigns.
Before that Beverley was a EuroCup superstar; he led Spartak St. Petersburg all the way to the 2012 Final Four before losing against Khimki Moscow Region in the semifinals. He earned 2011-12 EuroCup MVP honors, averaging 13.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 16 games, as well as leading the competition in steals (1.9 spg.).
In Tel Aviv, he will reunite with head coach Stefanos Dedas, who was an assistant coach at Spartak when Beverley starred there. Beverley will also team up with Johnathan Motley in Tel Aviv after the two spent parts of two seasons together with the Clippers from 2018 through 2020.
Beverley started his professional basketball career with Dnipro Dnepropetrovsk of Ukraine and also played for Olympiacos Piraeus of Greece, helping it reach the 2010 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague Championship Game against FC Barcelona. He helped Olympiacos win the Greek Cup in 2010 and also lifted the Russian Cup trophy with Spartak in 2011. Beverley also won a bronze medal with the United States at the 2007 U19 World Cup.