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“Going out on the court, that was wrong,” Haliburton said. “I should have found a way to restrain myself, but I was in the moment.” Haliburton said the heated moment supposedly started after he went onto the court to wave his son’s banner to celebrate his son’s win, and claimed that he wasn’t intentionally staring down Giannis but was “looking through him” in the moment. Haliburton then said a security guard grabbed his hands, took the banner, and threw it on the ground. He told Burks that he picked up the banner, told security not to touch him again, and then left the court.
That’s when he told Burks that Giannis approached him, leading to the viral moment that has since made national headlines. “When I was off the court, he put his hands on me. I'm not saying that he did it in a hostile way,” Haliburton said. “He reached out, he grabbed my hands. He put his forehead on my forehead, and he proceeded to say what he said to me, and that was, ‘don't you ever f——— disrespect me again.’”
Haliburton said he responded to Giannis and told him that he wasn't trying to disrespect him, and that they even ended the interaction saying “I love you” to each other and parting amicably. “When he said that to me, I said, ‘I love you.’ He said back to me, ‘I love you,’” Haliburton said. “We patted chest, he gave us a thumbs up, and he walked away. They won't show that on social media, right? You know, they're only showing that they think that he was so upset, that we wanted to fight.”
In Wednesday’s interview with Burks, Haliburton admitted to waving the flag but denied taunting Giannis and cursing at him. “It upset me because it was a lie, right? And I ain't scared to tell you a lie is a lie, right? I never said that to him. I do not swear,” Haliburton said. “You can't do anything to me to make me swear. You understand, right? Listen, I do not do that, right?”
When asked about his son’s response to the interaction, he said his son had the right to tell him how he felt but clarified that he was not “checked.” “My son don't check me. That's my child, right? My son was brought up to say what's right and what's wrong, right? He had a right to tell me, ‘Dad, I don't agree with what you did, what you did was wrong, because I came on the floor,’” Haliburton said. “He's absolutely right, okay, but let it be known to Stephen A. Smith and everybody else, my child don't check me.”
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Additional information about the home burglary of Milwaukee Buck star Bobby Ports could come as soon as Wednesday, a Milwaukee County judge ruled. According to online court records, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) sued the River Hills Police Department after it released an incident report on Portis' burglary that was nearly 100% redacted. Judge Thomas McAdams ruled Friday that additional information should be released. McAdams said he would prepare the amended release by Wednesday, though attorneys for the television station and the River Hills Police Department could offer objections and a further hearing could be set for Friday, according to online court records.
Dwyane Wade makes $3 million donation to Marquette University
Marquette University legend and NBA champion Dwyane Wade is making a $3 million gift to his alma mater, the university announced Monday. Wade's gift was announced at Monday's Villanova vs. Marquette game at Fiserv Forum.
“Marquette shaped me into the person I am today. It means a great deal to me and my family to be able to give back to take the university to the next level,” Wade said. “My hope is to continue to transform lives through higher education."
Jordan Poole is a Milwaukee native making a name for himself with the Golden State Warriors. On the cuffs of reaching his first NBA Finals before turning 23-years-old in June, no one is less surprised by this success than mom and dad. "I always knew he was going to be here. I always knew, someway, somehow, that he was going to be here," says Anthony Poole, Jordan's father, and former AAU coach.
"He will work all day in the gym. I mean, personally growing up, he's like 'dad, can we go to the gym and work out?' And we would be there two hours a night or three hours a night. He will stay in the gym and he's a perfectionist when he wants to work on his craft. So, seeing him there now, yeah," says Anthony.
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Jordan isn't the only 414-product pushing Golden State to another NBA Finals. Big brother, Kevon Looney is right there with him. "Kevon is a great guy and you saw the other day, Looney had a great game and Jordan was so happy for him. And behind the scenes, Jordan was just waiting for him to be done with his interview, it was just mad love. You know, it's another Milwaukee guy," says Anthony.
To meet the demands for labor created by the highly attended NBA Finals home games, the Milwaukee Bucks are busing in hundreds of workers from Chicago and are actively recruiting from Minnesota and Iowa. That's according to Bucks president Peter Feigin during the Milwaukee Business Journal's Flash Forum Tuesday, who said the team is problem-solving both a massive labor shortage and the "largest event in the Midwest for these few days."
Feigin said other Wisconsin sports teams, including the Milwaukee Brewers and the Green Bay Packers, are helping the Bucks find the employees necessary to staff Fiserv Forum - which will be packed with 17,000 fans inside, and at least 20,000 fans outside in the plaza.
Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Darvin Ham is as excited as the players right now. Bucks basketball is nearly back in action. Ham says that many of Milwaukee's NBA players have been working to stay fit during their time off. "Our guys are still in shape. I've seen some of these of these other players on their little social media accounts look like they've been eatin' a few extra hamburgers”.
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