Tyrese Haliburton’s father, John, won’t be attending any Pacers video games for the “foreseeable future” after he obtained right into a confrontation with Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo following Sport 5 within the first spherical of the NBA playoffs.
John met with the Pacers entrance workplace, and the choice was made by the group that he wouldn’t attend any of their dwelling and highway video games going ahead, a Pacers spokesperson informed ESPN’s Shams Charania.
The incident made headlines after the sport wherein Antetokounmpo defined he felt John’s actions had been “very disrespectful” when he had waved a towel and yelled, “this is what we f–king do.”
John admitted that occurring to the courtroom “was wrong,” throughout an interview with Milwaukee information station TMJ4 on Wednesday.
Nevertheless, he insisted that he had by no means shouted in Antetokounmpo’s face.
“When I was off the court, [Antetokounmpo] put his hands on me. I’m not saying that he did it in a hostile way,” John informed the TV station. “He reached out, he grabbed my hands. He put his forehead on my forehead, and he proceeded to say what he said to me, and that was, ‘Don’t you ever f–king disrespect me again.’”
Each Antetokounmpo and John had mentioned that they’d left issues on good phrases when all was mentioned and finished.
The Pacers star mentioned he didn’t condone what his dad had finished following the win.
“He needs to just allow me to play basketball and stay over there and I’ll come to him to celebrate. But the emotions of the game got excited there. I talked with him. I’ll talk with Giannis. I don’t think my pops was in the right at all there,” Haliburton mentioned.
Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle spoke extremely of Haliburton’s father within the wake of the incident.
“I want everyone to know that this is a guy with a heart of gold, and the one thing he loves close to his son is the Pacers,” Carlisle mentioned throughout “The Fan Morning Show” on 107.5 FM in Indy.
“But, it can’t manifest the way that it did, and he knows that.”
