Giannis went to the locker room to get the ball, but the Pacers refused, saying, “Don’t give him the ball!”

Giannis Antetokounmpo was the great protagonist of the Milwaukee Bucks-Indiana Pacers. The Greek player reached 64 points, setting a new record in his career and Bucks history, but the party was not complete.

In the NBA, it’s a deep-rooted tradition to hold the ball whenever a milestone is achieved, such as coaching the first game in the case of a coach or first points for a current rookie. The latter was the excuse the Pacers used to keep the game ball. According to the official version, the NBA Cup runner-up kept it to give to someone else. Oscar Tshibwe A rookie who scored his first point in the NBA.

Giannis was enraged by the situation and headed to the locker room to try and get his revenge, but as the cameras and microphones showed, things didn’t go his way.

“Keep the ball! You want the ball? You’re not going to get the ball,” they told Giannis from the Pacers’ locker room.

When things didn’t go his way, the Greek called for poor Tyrese Haliburton to go get the ball, but the Pacers’ point guard didn’t quite understand the situation.

“My understanding is that there was just a misunderstanding after the game. For some reason, he wanted to confront me. I just stood there. We recently told them They gave us some offense today because we’ve won twice.”

When Antetokounmpo finally arrived for his postgame interview, he was asked if he had the ball, but was apparently given a substitution. “I have no idea. I really don’t know. I have the ball, but I don’t know if it’s a game ball or not. It doesn’t feel like a game ball, it feels like a new ball. I can tell you that.”, 35 minutes today. I played it, and I noticed that it felt like a match ball.