After a November arrest that was never prosecuted, the NBA guard returned ready to work, only to learn Barstool had already rebuilt his show around someone else.
Patrick Beverley is back, and he is not staying quiet about how things ended at Barstool Sports. The NBA guard launched the first episode of his new Pat Bev Show on his own YouTube channel Wednesday, and he wasted no time addressing the situation that forced him off the air months ago and what he came back to find when the legal cloud lifted.
The episode opened with Beverley laying out a straightforward account of events. He had been away from Hoopin’ N Hollerin’, the Barstool podcast he built alongside cohost Adam Ferrone, while dealing with a November arrest. A grand jury declined to indict him on the assault charge, and when the case closed, he expected to pick up where he left off. That is not what happened.
Beverley on what he found when he tried to return
When Beverley began reaching out to get back to work, he said the responses he received were evasive. Nobody gave him a straight answer. Eventually, Barstool founder Dave Portnoy stepped in and told him directly that the team behind the podcast had decided to move forward without him, continuing the show with Ferrone and former NBA player Jason Williams.
Beverley then contacted Ferrone personally. According to Beverley, his cohost told him he had only found out about the decision roughly 15 minutes before Beverley did.
What made the situation sting more than the professional outcome was the silence that preceded it. During the months Beverley was away dealing with his legal situation, he said he did not hear from anyone connected to the show. That included Ferrone, whom Beverley described not as a colleague but as a close friend. The absence of a single call or message was something he found harder to process than the business decision itself.
The podcast he helped build moved on in under six months
Beverley noted the timeline with some disbelief. Less than six months before he was pushed out, the show carried his name. He and Ferrone had grown it into something with a real audience on YouTube, building subscribers and views from the ground up. To watch it continue under a different name without him, and without so much as a conversation, was jarring.
He was careful not to frame the episode as an attack on Barstool or anyone involved. He acknowledged that Portnoy handled things with him directly, kept him in the loop, and allowed him to remain loosely connected to the company while he worked through his personal situation. That, Beverley said, he respects.
His decision to address it publicly was not about grievance. He knew his viewers would ask, and he wanted to be the one to answer.
Beverley draws a clear line between hurt and hostility
Despite the frustration woven into his account, Beverley was deliberate about where he stood. He made clear that there is no ongoing conflict, no animosity toward Barstool, and no personal feud with anyone from the show. He drew a firm line between being surprised by what happened and being bitter about it.
The distinction matters to him. He is moving forward on his own terms with a new platform, a new format, and full control over what he builds next. The Pat Bev Show on YouTube is the fresh start he is choosing rather than a fallback.
The arrest that started everything
Beverley was arrested in November 2025 on allegations that he assaulted his 15-year-old sister. He denied the allegations throughout the process, and the case never resulted in charges after a grand jury declined to indict him. The matter is now closed.
What remains is the professional gap it created, and Beverley is clearly determined to fill it himself.
Video credit: Youtube.com /Pat Bev