Bucks and Pacers players have a growing distaste for each other, with the beef between the two teams escalating this week thanks to Milwaukee’s Bobby Portis.
“I mean, just quite frankly, they’re frontrunners, bro,” Portis said Tuesday. “Y’all can just tweet that or whatever it is, bro. When the sh-t going good, they laughing, clapping, all that. When it’s going bad, they not saying nothing.”
Portis made these comments in reference to the physicality, trash talking, and technical fouls during Game 2 of the first-round playoff series between the Bucks and Pacers.
His remarks were just the latest in a series of shots Milwaukee and Indiana players have taken at each other.
The beef began with a dispute over who would keep the game ball on the night Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a career-high 64 points in December.
Then, during the In-Season Tournament, when the Pacers beat the Bucks, Tyrese Haliburton taunted Damian Lillard by mimicking his famous “Dame Time” celebration.
Lillard responded by saying, “For as many times as I’ve done it to people, I can’t be upset when somebody else does it… I’ve also known that when you are having your moment, it’s important to be careful and be humble.”
Given that history has a way of repeating itself, anticipate more intensity when the Bucks and Pacers face off in Game 3 on Friday.
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