Tyrese Haliburton's father banned from Pacers games for the foreseeable future

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.” -via tmj4.com / May 1, 2025

“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. -via tmj4.com / May 1, 2025

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.’” -via tmj4.com / May 1, 2025