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The Indiana Pacers really didn’t want to give Giannis Antetokoumpo the game ball after he crushed them on the court.
On Wednesday night, Antetokoumpo scored a career-high 64 points, which also broke the Bucks franchise record for most points in a game.
Some of the Pacers were clearly not happy with the fact that Antetokoumpo scored a ton of his points during garbage time while they were getting blown out.
After the game, the Pacers took the game ball into the locker room, which led to a heated Giannis running into the tunnel and chasing after it.
Giannis tried to go into the Pacers locker room after they took the game ball from his 64 piece pic.twitter.com/Z9LnPQihzJ
— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) December 14, 2023
A leaked security video shows Pacers players refusing to give Giannis the ball while he tried to enter the locker room.
LEAKED Audio Of Pacers Refusing To Give Giannis Antetokounmpo The “Game Ball”👀:
“You want the ball? You’re not getting that ball”
Then, Giannis gets heated at Tyrese Haliburton and yells at him: “Go get the f*cking ball! You need to go get it” pic.twitter.com/e9XAQzNZVl
— LegendZ (@legendz_nba) December 14, 2023
Eventually, the Pacers gave him the ball, but Giannis believes it wasn’t the official game ball used during the game.
“I have a ball but I don’t know if it’s the game ball. It doesn’t feel like the game ball to me. It feels like a brand-new ball… I played 35 minutes today. I know what the game ball felt like.”
“I have a ball but I don’t know if it’s the game ball. It doesn’t feel like the game ball to me. It feels like a brand new ball… I played 35 minutes today. I know what the game ball felt like.”
Giannis Antetokounmpo on the situation with the game ball 😳pic.twitter.com/RAQ5f9wezZ
— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) December 14, 2023
The Pacers claim that they were trying to give the ball to rookie Oscar Tschiebwe, who scored his first point on Wednesday but Giannis isn’t buying it.