“Well, you know, Paul has never been the guy that said, ‘You can’t tell me shit. I’m Paul Pierce. Don’t tell me anything,’” he remembers telling Beal. “He’s the type of guy that if you see him fuck up, he wants you to point it out and get it right. He’s told you and John specifically, y’all are the leaders of this team. “If you see him doing something wrong, as a leader, you have to speak up and point that out. You can’t not do what he said because he’s not doing it himself, necessarily. You have to take what he says and try to understand the message because what he’s saying is right. Now, he might not adhere to it all the time, because he’s human. But if he doesn’t adhere to it, you need to call him out on it. I don’t care if he is Paul Pierce, a first-ballot Hall of Famer.” Beal nodded along. If he disagreed with anything said, he didn’t show it. “I see you,” he responded.