Watch: Patrick Beverley throws ball at fans at end of Game 6

Beverley’s first toss appeared to miss its target, a male fan, instead hitting an unsuspecting female in the side of the head. He asked for the ball back and the male fan lightly tossed it back to him, only for Beverley to throw it back immediately at the male fan with considerable force (and nearly hitting a Bucks assistant in the process). 

The male fan deflected the ball.

Bucks forward Jae Crowder tried to calm Beverley down at that point, but he pushed Crowder’s arms aside before sitting on the bench. Security then intervened and appeared to remove some of the fans.

As Jim Owczarski and Emmett Prosser of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel write, Beverley refused to address the incident after the loss, which eliminated the Bucks from the playoffs.

“No, don’t worry about that,” Beverley said. “Nothing.”

However, late in the night, Beverley responded to the incident on social media.

“Not Fair at all,” he wrote. “Exchanged between a fan and our ball club all night. We warned and asked for help all night. Not fair.”

About six hours later, Beverley followed up via X with, “But I have to be better. And I will.”

TNT analyst and former NBA star Charles Barkley expects Beverley to receive a harsh punishment for the incident. Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated concurs.

“Listen, I’ve done stupid stuff and I got criticized,” Barkley said. “That’s just wrong. He’s gonna get suspended for that. And that’s gonna be a good one, too, beause he didn’t do it once. He did it twice.”

Beverley, 35, will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, and Milwaukee’s season just ended. A potential suspension wouldn’t be served until next season begins, assuming he’s able to land another contract.

For what it’s worth, Beverley also refused to speak to an ESPN reporter after the game because she wasn’t subscribed to his podcast, tweets Pacers reporter Alex Golden. Evidently that isn’t new behavior, though, per Jack Maloney of CBS Sports.