milwaukee bucks Guard Patrick Beverley was criticized for violently throwing a basketball at fans during the team’s Game 6 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.
Beverly was sitting on the bench when he stood up and launched a basketball A female Pacers fan sitting behind the team’s bench is hit in the head with a fan.
He appeared to be making a move to get the ball back, and when it came back, he again threw the ball towards another fan, who was able to deflect it.
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Patrick Beverley of the Milwaukee Bucks dribbles against the Indiana Pacers during Game 6 of the first round of the 2024 NBA playoffs on May 2, 2024, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images)
Coaches and other players came forward in an attempt to defuse the situation, but Beverley appeared to continue exchanging words with fans sitting behind him.
Less than a week later, Beverly says it was an “unfortunate situation that should never have happened.”
Beverly said, “What I did was bad and it should never have happened. I have to be better and I will be better. And it should never have happened.” on his podcast, “No matter what was said, this should never have happened. It’s that simple.”
Initial reports said it came after a fan said “Cancun on three”, but Beverly says it was “even more than that” and she was called a name that is clearly NSFW.
“I’ve been called a lot of things in this league, I just haven’t been called that way,” he said. “Still unforgivable. It doesn’t matter what was said. I have to be better, and I will be better.”
Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley (21) dribbles the ball while Indiana Pacers guard TJ McConnell (9) makes the save during Game 6 of the first round of the 2024 NBA playoffs at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Trevor Ruszkowski/USA TODAY Sports)
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Beverley said security approached him at the beginning of the game and asked if he wanted some fans to be ejected, but he declined, saying he didn’t really want fans to be ejected. Be thrown out for talking nonsense.
Beverley said, “I’m not kicking any fans out. The people who spend money to see us play. I’m not kicking them out.”
However, this certain fan “crossed the line.”
“We’re at the layup line. I’m on the bench with the ball. The fan to my right says something crazy. I go over to him, ‘Hey, man, you can scold me but don’t call me that.’ I shake (Pacers coach) Rick Carlisle’s hand, the fan says something crazy to me, I’m like, man, you can say anything, just don’t be disrespectful, he even apologized to everyone to some extent. Crazy, they all apologized, it’s just that some people crossed a little line.”
Patrick Beverley of the Milwaukee Bucks beats Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana Pacers during the first half of Game 1 of the NBA playoffs on April 21, 2024 in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Maurie Gash)
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Beverley later joked that he would “not bring a basketball to the bench anymore, man.”
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Fox News’ Paulina Dedaz contributed to this report.
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