Clippers coach Doc Rivers is OK with Patrick Beverley’s feisty demeanor

LOS ANGELES — No, coach Doc Rivers didn’t sit down Patrick Beverley and lecture the Clippers guard on the NBA’s anti-flopping rules.
“I’ve not even mentioned it to him or to the team,” Rivers said Sunday, before the Clippers took the court for a rematch with the New Orleans Pelicans, to which they lost Nov. 14. “I just think defensively you gotta be what you are and who you are, and do it with intensity and he does that.”
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