The Bucks are out of the NBA playoffs — and Patrick Beverley apparently isn’t happy about it.
With 2:32 left in the Bucks’ 120-98 loss to the Pacers in Game 6, Thanasis Antetokounmpo replaced Brook Lopez, and in the middle of the player exchange, Beverley twice threw a basketball at the Pacers fans in the crowd, punching twice. at least one in the head.
As Lopez congratulated her teammates, Beverley was seen throwing the ball for the first time at a fan, hitting them in the side of the head.
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He then asked another fan for the ball, and when Beverly had it in his hands, he returned it to this Indiana fan.
It’s unclear if anything led to that moment, but it was a bizarre scene in what was a blowout defeat for the Bucks to end their first-round series.
“Oh, he’s gone.” He’s going to be suspended,” 11-time NBA All-Star Charles Barkley said on TNT.
“Dude, he hit that lady in the head…you can’t hit no lady. Never.
“I did stupid things and I was criticized. This is simply false. He’s going to be suspended for this – and that’ll be a good thing too, because he didn’t do it once, he did it twice.
After the match, Beverley didn’t delve further when asked about it.
“No, don’t worry about that. Nothing,” he told reporters.
Beverley, who also hosts “The Pat Bev Podcast with Rone,” got into an exchange with ESPN’s Malinda Adams, saying she couldn’t interview him because she didn’t subscribe to his show.
“Are you subscribed to my pod? ” He asked.
“Do I subscribe, I don’t,” Adams said.
“You can’t interview me then, no disrespect,” Beverley said.
It was a particularly frustrating game for Beverley, who finished with just six points on 3-of-11 shooting, going 0-of-3 from 3-point range in 40 minutes.
This story originally appeared on the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.
