Tyrese Haliburton’s Dad & Giannis Antetokounmpo Have Heated Exchange After Pacers Win Series Against Bucks

by Tobias LinkinApril 30, 2025, 11:29 pmNews, Z-Home Slider >

Tyrese Haliburton hit a game-winning shot, and he wasn’t even the Haliburton who caused the most drama.

The Indiana Pacers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 119-118 in overtime. After the game, Haliburton’s father taunted Giannis Antetokounmpo, leading to a heated exchange between the two teams.

John Haliburton, Tyrese’s father, ran up to Antetokounmpo holding a towel with his son on it and started yelling in his face.

“Coming on the floor and showing me his son’s towel, [saying] ‘This is what we do. This is what we F’ing do. This the F we do,’ …. I feel like that’s very, very disrespectful,” Antetokounmpo said.

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The two exchanged words before they were finally separated.

Tyrese believed that his father was in the wrong for causing the incident.

“Me and my pops have talked about that,” Tyrese said in his postgame news conference. “I don’t agree with what transpired there from him.”

The Pacers won the series 4-1, with game five being the most dramatic of the series. The Bucks led 118-111 with 40 seconds left in overtime.

ESPN had given the Bucks a 99.5% chance to win at this point.

Crucial turnovers down the stretch led to Pacers buckets and Haliburton’s game-winning layup.

The Bucks, who’ve lost in the first round in back-to-back years, are likely candidates for big offseason changes. Both Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard may be playing somewhere different next season.