Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley came under fire for violently throwing a basketball at fans during the team's Game 6 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.
Beverley was sitting on the bench when he stood up and threw a basketball at a Pacers fan sitting behind the team bench, hitting her in the head.
He appeared to make a gesture to retrieve the ball, and when it was returned to him, he again threw the ball to 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 intervened in an attempt to calm the situation, but Beverly appeared to continue exchanging words with fans sitting behind him.
Less than a week later, Beverley says it was an “unfortunate situation that should never have happened.”
“What I did was bad and that should have never happened. I have to be better and I will be better. And that should have never happened,” Beverly said. on his podcast. “Regardless of what was said, that should never have happened. It's that simple.”
Initial reports say it came after a fan said “Cancun at three,” but Beverley says it was “more than that” and that he was called a name that's apparently NSFW.
“I've been called a lot of things in this league, but I've never been called that,” he said. “It's 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) defends 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 had approached him earlier in the game and asked if he wanted certain fans ejected, but he refused, saying he actually didn't even want fans ejected for simple trash talk.
“I'm not going to let any fans get kicked out. People who spend money to see us play. I'm not going to let them get kicked out,” Beverley said.
However, this 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 walk up to him and say, 'Hey, man, you can boo me, but don't call me that.' hand to (Pacers coach) Rick Carlisle, and the fan says something crazy to me. I look like, man, you can say anything, but don't be disrespectful. He also apologized to everyone who stepped out of line. . kind of too crazy, everyone apologized. It was just that some people crossed the line a little bit.”
Patrick Beverley of the Milwaukee Bucks drives past 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/Morry Gash)
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Beverley later joked that he's “not bringing a basketball to the bench anymore, man.”
The Bucks lost the first-round series to the Pacers, who now trail the New York Knicks, 1-0, in the second round.
Paulina Dedaj of Fox News contributed to this report.
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