Patrick Beverley violently hurls ball at Pacers fans as Bucks get eliminated from playoffs

Basketball
Published 03.05.2024
Patrick Beverley violently hurls ball at Pacers fans as Bucks get eliminated from playoffs

The Bucks are out of the NBA playoffs — and Patrick Beverley is seemingly not thrilled about it.

With 2:32 left within the Bucks’ season-ending 120-98 loss to the Pacers in Game 6, Thanasis Antetokounmpo changed Brook Lopez, and amid the swap in gamers, Beverley threw a basketball at Pacers followers within the crowd twice, hitting no less than one within the head.

As Lopez high-fived his teammates, Beverley was seen throwing the ball for the primary time at one fan, hitting them within the facet of the pinnacle.

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He then requested for the ball again from a distinct fan, and when Beverly obtained it in his fingers, he threw it again at that Indiana supporter.

It’s not clear if something led to this second, but it surely was a weird scene in what was a blowout loss for the Bucks to finish their first-round sequence.

“Oh, he gone. He’s going to get suspended,” 11-time NBA All-Star Charles Barkley mentioned on TNT.

“Man he hit that lady in the head … you can’t hit no lady. Ever.

“I’ve done stupid stuff and I got criticised. That’s just wrong. He’s going to get suspended for that – and that’s going to be a good one, too, because he didn’t do it once, he did it twice.”

After the sport, Beverley didn’t delve into the matter when requested about it.

“Nah, don’t worry about that. Nothing,” he instructed reporters.

Beverley, who additionally hosts “The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone,” had an trade with ESPN’s Malinda Adams, saying she couldn’t interview him as a result of she didn’t subscribe to his present.

“You subscribed to my pod?” he requested.

“Do I subscribe, I do not,” Adams mentioned.

“You can’t interview me then, no disrespect,” Beverley mentioned.

It was a very irritating sport for Beverley, who completed with simply six factors on 3 of 11 capturing, going 0-for-3 from 3-point land in 40 minutes.

This story initially appeared on The New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.