{"id":263074,"date":"2025-11-05T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:04:09","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-boos-indiana-pacers-fans-after-milwaukee-bucks-buzzer-beater-win-doc-rivers-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263074\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo boos Indiana Pacers fans after Milwaukee Bucks buzzer-beater win, Doc Rivers press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo nailed a buzzer-beater and then mocked Indiana fans for booing ex-Pacers star Myles Turner in his return to Indianapolis on Tuesday (AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>The 17-foot jumper saw Milwaukee beat the understrength Pacers 117-115, capping off a strong night for the Greek superstar, who had 33 points, 13 rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>But his new teammate Turner, the former Pacers center, was the headliner after moving from the Eastern conference champions to their divisional rivals in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Watch NBA with ESPN on Kayo Sports | Stream an average 9 LIVE Regular Season games per week plus the best of the NBA Playoffs.| New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=default&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkbasketball-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-basketball-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Turner was booed all night, including during a pre-game video tribute, and responded with his own boos against Pacers fans when he hit a three during the game.<\/p>\n<p>He then hit a tiebreaking two-pointer with 2:22 left in the game on an otherwise quiet night. His replacement, Isaiah Jackson, had 21 points and 10 rebounds in his highest-scoring game in almost four years, as the Pacers came back from 11 points down with 6:08 left in the game, tying it with 14.6 seconds to play.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761200708_112_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But then came Antetokounmpo\u2019s buzzer-beater, after which he also mocked Pacers fans with boos.<\/p>\n<p>The result was further soured for the Pacers as Aussie Johnny Furphy &#8211; who had more rebounds than Turner at halftime &#8211; limped off with a left ankle injury. He then left the locker room on crutches.<\/p>\n<p>The second-year player has been battling foot and ankle injuries since the pre-season and had played just twice this season prior to today.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bucks coach Doc Rivers was asked post-game to give an update on Antetokounmpo after the MVP contender was left clutching at his left knee after a contest on a layup attempt by Pascal Siakam that was called a clean block.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of giving an update on his health, Rivers took the opportunity to sound off on the way his superstar forward is officiated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, the update is call the foul,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the update. Giannis drove to the basket and got completely wiped out. I mean, watch the video. He got completely wiped out and it\u2019s a no-call. It\u2019s amazing the difference of how Giannis is officiated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the refs even said, \u2018Well, yeah, they\u2019re hitting his arms, but he\u2019s playing through it\u2019. I said, \u2018OK, it\u2019s still a foul\u2019. All right, he\u2019s strong enough to play through it. He\u2019s not going to let it stop him, but it\u2019s still a foul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he got fouled so many times and then their last play, what I was upset at, people complain about Shai (Gilgeous-Alexander) pushing off? That last play, Siakam just a complete forearm, threw a guy out of the way, right in front of the official, he was almost challenging him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe gotta be consistent with calls. A great example, if Giannis did that, it\u2019s going to be an offensive foul. I didn\u2019t like how the game was called in that regard. Giannis got strangled last game and it was nothing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, they gave him a flagrant because of the last game. I just think the way he gets officiated is not right and I get it\u2019s hard. He\u2019s like guarding a fast Shaq. It\u2019s brutal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can make a case \u2014 and I\u2019m sure they do \u2014 \u2018Hell, we can call a foul every time\u2019. Well, if you do, they\u2019ll stop fouling him. That\u2019s my answer every time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo nailed a buzzer-beater and then mocked Indiana fans for booing ex-Pacers star Myles Turner in his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-263074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}