“As the winner, you should be humble,” said the Greek superstar to the strip.
First John Haliburton waved around Giannis Antetokounmpo on the parquet, then a few nice words followed the loser. After the victory of the Indiana Pacers for Tyrese Haliburton in the NBA Play-off series against the Milwaukee Bucks, the father of the basketball star caused a powerful excitement with a provocation. Later he was sorry.
“As the winner, you should be humble,” said Antetocounmpo, the behavior was “disrespectful”. Before the dispute, the Bucks had lost 118: 119 after extra time with the Pacers and thus the round of 16 1: 4.
Antetocounmpo had not accepted the attack, but forehead on the forehead, close to dense, talked to John Haliburton. “Many people out there say: If you win the game, you can talk shit – and this is the green light for you to be disrespectful to someone else,” said the Greek, “I disagree.”
His triple double with 30 points, 20 rebounds and 13 assists was not enough in the end, Tyrese Haliburton made the decision for the decision 1.3 seconds before the end. Too much emotionally for father John.
At first he thought that Haliburton Sr. was a fan, “but then I realized that it was Tyrese’s father. His father comes on the field, shows me a towel with his son’s face and says: ‘This is what we do. We do that.’ I think that’s very, very disrespectful. ” At the same time, Antetokounmpo emphasized: “I love Tyrese.”
The campaign also annoyed them. “I don’t agree with what he said there,” said Tyrese Haliburton: “Basketball is basketball, we should leave him on the field.” There has already been a conversation about the incident.
John Haliburton later spoke up on social media: “I sincerely apologize to Giannis, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Pacers for my behavior after the game. I did not throw good light on our sport or my son and I will not make this mistake again.”