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Following the Pacers' win, which sealed the series for them, a huge tussle broke out between Giannis and the Pacers, including Haliburton's dad. Tensions are always set to be high when faced with elimination, and it seems as if they reached a fever-high as Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo got involved in a heated tussle with Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton’s father after Milwaukee fell to Indiana in Game 5. Following the Pacers’ win, which sealed the series for them, a huge tussle broke out between Giannis and the Pacers, including Haliburton’s dad.
The Bucks’ Antetokounmpo and the Pacers’ Bennedict Mathurin hugged first, but then it quickly escalated as Mathurin pushed Antetokounmpo away and grabbed the Bucks star’s jersey. Both teams and security had to come and separate the situation, but it would overflow outside the court as well, as Giannis walked past Haliburton’s father, who also seemingly had choice words for him. And before that, Antetokounmpo and Tyrese Haliburton’s dad had words for each other as well.
It began with a handshake, but then things intensified, and they were face to face with their foreheads touching, yelling at each other. When asked about the interaction at the post-game presser, Giannis pointed out the seemingly braggadocious nature of the celebration from the Pacers and the ‘disrespectful’ words being thrown at him after the game. “This is the last time I’m going to talk about this.
One thing I will say is that I believe in being humble in victory, that’s the way I am. Now, a lot of people will also not agree with me and will say that you got to talk sh*t because it’s a green light for you to be disrespectful. I disagree," Giannis stated.
“I have won a championship, they haven’t. That’s not to say anything about their effort now, I don’t want to minimize it," Giannis added. “Now, when I’m coming off losing a game and having emotions run high, then to have Tyrese’s (Haliburton) dad to come in and shove his jersey in my face, yelling ‘This is what we do, this id what we f**cking do’, I feel like that was very disrespectful.
" “I am happy for his son (Tyrese). But, coming to me, disrespecting me and cursing at me, it’s totally unacceptable. I don’t want to tell eveyone what he exactly said, because snitches get stitches.
But, it was disrespectful, and so I went to talk to him in the end. And I think we are in a good place now." The Bucks, powered by Giannis and Gary Trent Jr, pushed the Pacers to the brink of collapsing, dueling it out in OT to keep their season alive, after Haliburton failed to seal the deal for the home side.
But, right when he thought he’d let them down, Haliburton tuned it around in OT, as the All-Star PG blew past Giannis for the go-ahead layup with 1.3 seconds left to close an 8-0 run that sent the Pacers past the Milwaukee Bucks 119-118 on Tuesday night for a 4-1 series victory..
