INDIANAPOLIS (AP) 鈥� Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Beverley indicated a video showing him throwing a ball at a spectator on Thursday was misleading but later added that 鈥淚 have to be better.鈥�
Cameras showed Beverley sitting on the bench and tossing a ball into the stands and hitting a fan with about 2 1/2 minutes left in Milwaukee鈥檚 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.
Beverley declined to answer a question about it while speaking to reporters after the game. But he that showed the video by saying, 鈥淣ot Fair at all. Exchanged between a fan and our ball club all night. We warned and asked for help all night. Not fair.鈥�
Six hours later, Beverley issued saying, 鈥淏ut I have to be better. And I will.鈥�
Also during his Beverley wouldn鈥檛 allow a particular journalist to ask a question after discovering that she didn鈥檛 subscribe to his podcast. He told her to get her microphone out of his face and then eventually asked her to leave the interview circle.
The journalist was identified on social media as ESPN producer Malinda Adams. She tweeted Friday that Beverley called her and apologized.
鈥淚 appreciate it and accept it,鈥� she said . 鈥淭he Bucks also reached out to apologize.鈥�
Bucks coach Doc Rivers said Friday he had spoken to Beverley.
鈥淭hat's not the Milwaukee way or the Bucks way,鈥� Rivers said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e better than that. Pat feels awful about that. He also understands emotionally 鈥� this is an emotional game and things happen 鈥� unfortunately, you鈥檙e judged immediately and he let the emotions get the better of him.鈥�
Rivers said Beverley called Adams on his own without being told to do so by the Bucks.
鈥淚 had not seen that interview,鈥� Rivers said. 鈥淚 just heard that that happened. So we talked about that and then the ball-throwing incident. And he made the comment to me about what was being said back his way and I just said, 鈥業 get it, but we鈥檙e coaches and athletes, we鈥檙e the entertainers or whatever we are. Sometimes they can be in the wrong, but you just can鈥檛 do those certain things.鈥� And he knows that as well.鈥�
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