The Milwaukee Bucks‘ playoff series against the Indiana Pacers was filled with bad blood.
It then was no surprise that seconds after the series ended in crushing fashion for the Bucks with a 119-118 overtime loss, a game in which they blew a late seven-point lead, that a scuffle broke out.
The Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Pacers’ Bennedict Mathurin had words for each other and needed to be separated.
The two hugged first but then it quickly escalated as Mathurun pushed Antetokounmpo away and grabbed the Bucks star’s jersey.
The entire teams and and security had to come and separate the situation.
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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.
Antetokounmpo had to be separated by teammate Pat Connaughton.
Tyrese Haliburton has had many heated exchanges with Bucks players during the chippy series.
But Haliburton gets the last laugh again against the Bucks. Haliburton, an Oshkosh native, first scored the Pacers’ final six points in regulation to force overtime at 103 after the Bucks had a four-point lead with around 50 seconds left.
The Bucks then had a seven-point overtime lead with 40 seconds left he again delivered.
He scored the Pacers’ final five points, first on a three-point play at the basket with 17 seconds left after a Bucks turnover. And then with the Bucks leading still leading at 118-117, the Bucks lost it again with 10.1 seconds after Gary Trent Jr. couldn’t hold onto the ball.
That set up Haliburton’s heroics with 1.1 seconds.