The basketball world just keeps on getting stranger. After all the crazy twists and turns over the last week or so, we have yet another curveball on our hands. It appears that it will continue as the NBA’s board of governors-approved restart plan is not being well-received by some of the players.

The new surprising headline is about LA Clippers guard Patrick Beverley, who’s also the most annoying pest in the league. He’s now ‘enthusiastically’ siding with LeBron James in the whole debate whether the season should resume or not. He and James, the Los Angeles Lakers’ superstar, are on opposite sides of LA basketball, and it’s also the same guy he’s been beefing with on-the-court for what seems like a decade now. So, take it with a grain of salt.

Here’s what he tweeted:

It’s one of two things: either they became freshly connected BFFs while on quarantine or it’s an awesomely timed subtle jab on James – knowing that Beverley is a dedicated troll, I’ll put my money on the latter. He’s likely addressing the long-running belief that James is the real dude pulling the strings for the NBA, or that anything he wants and says goes. Maybe it’s also a dig on the commissioner? Your move, Adam Silver.

Extra points on Beverley for a well-coated troll job.

As you know, an impending back-and-forth between the NBA brass and the players is heating up, which is looking like it will be really rough considering the league has already finalized a return date.

On Saturday, it was revealed that Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving is leading a group of players who are against the league’s return in late July, and that they had a video conference where he was reportedly very passionate. James, who’s believed to be in favour of resuming the season, was not part of the call.

As seen from Irving’s statements, the perspective of the players that are opposing the return is heavily focused on the current racial issues in America, which appears to be getting worse by the day. The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind both mentally and physically, particularly for the African-American community, and it’s on top of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic for more than three months now.

However, it is still not clear how cancelling the season would help the cause. We’ll have to wait and see how the discussion would play out. It’s probably best to expect the worst so we don’t get bummed out.

One thing’s for sure, though: everything is shaping up to be a ‘chicken and egg’-type of argument – one side is arguing that the return would be a distraction to the movement, while the other is saying that it’s not, and that it will only be a distraction to the nation’s divided and chaotic society.