INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Beverley indicated a video showing him throwing a ball at a spectator on Thursday was misleading but later added that “I have to be better.”
Cameras showed Beverley sitting on the bench and tossing a ball into the stands and hitting a fan with about 2 ½ minutes left in Milwaukee’s 120-98 Game 6 loss at Indiana that knocked the Bucks out of the playoffs. After a different fan threw the ball back to Beverley, who was holding his arm out for it, the Bucks guard fired it back at that spectator.
This is outrageous from Pat Beverley. Total garbage behaviour.
— Mark Gottlieb (@MarkGottlieb) May 3, 2024
Drills some innocent woman in the head then fires off another ball at the fan he was originally aiming at. #NBApic.twitter.com/kx2YDi2MU6
Beverley declined to answer a question about it while speaking to reporters after the game. But he replied to an X post that showed the video by saying, “Not Fair at all. Exchanged between a fan and our ball club all night. We warned and asked for help all night. Not fair.”
Six hours later, Beverley issued another X post saying, “But I have to be better. And I will.”
Also during his postgame media session, Beverley wouldn’t allow a particular reporter to ask a question after discovering that she didn’t subscribe to his podcast.
Patrick Beverley: "You subscribed to my pod?"
— Savage (@SavageSports_) May 3, 2024
Reporter: "I do not."
Pat Bev: "You can't interview me then. No disrespect."
What an absolute clown show.
🤡🤡🤡 pic.twitter.com/PmNfKmlabr
He told her to get her microphone out of his face and then eventually asked her to leave the interview circle.
