John Haliburton can roll with the punches.
Tyrese Haliburton’s father laughed and had fun with Thunder followers ribbing him outdoors of Paycom Middle after Oklahoma Metropolis’s Recreation 5 120-109 win over the Pacers on Monday.
John, sporting his son’s yellow jersey, teased a number of followers as if he would strategy them whereas they chirped, however smiled by the interactions.
One fan stored saying, “What you think?” earlier than John seemingly posed for a photograph with one other after which shook fingers with somebody, as captured in a 24-second video posted to Streamable.
That John might smile by all of it prevented any redos of his notorious on-court interplay with Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo through the first spherical that resulted in him and the Pacers agreeing to an eight-game ban that ended through the Jap Convention finals.
John waved a towel and celebrated on the court docket after the Pacers ousted the Bucks in 5 video games and he finally crossed paths with the ex-MVP, bumping heads with him.
Antetokounmpo known as John’s actions “very disrespectful,” whereas the elder Haliburton apologized and his son known as out his father’s ways.
“He needs to just allow me to play basketball and stay over there, and I’ll come to him to celebrate,” Tyese stated on the time. “But the emotions of the game got excited there. I talked with him. I’ll talk with Giannis about it. I don’t think my pops was in the right at all there.”
The Finals shifts to Indianapolis for Recreation 6 and Tyrese’s well being is the most important storyline.
The purpose guard is believed to have a strained proper calf and had been scheduled for an MRI examination to find out the extent of the harm, per ESPN.
Tyrese missed all of his photographs from the sector in Recreation 5, ending with simply 4 factors whereas coping with a lower-half harm.
The previous Iowa State star stated after Recreation 5 he will likely be play Thursday.
The Thunder are 6.5-point highway favorites at BetMGM.
“It’s the Finals, man. It’s the NBA Finals,” Haliburton stated. “I’ve labored my entire life to be right here and I need to be on the market to compete, assist my teammates any approach I can. I used to be not nice (in Recreation 5) by any means, however it’s not likely a although of mine to not play right here. If I may also help stroll, then I need to play.
“Gotta be ready to go for Game 6.”
