The Indiana Pacers are headed to the Eastern Conference semifinals after defeating the Milwaukee Bucks in six games.
Pacers All-Star point guard Tyrese Haliburton pulled no punches when gloating over the series victory, taking to X and referencing an old quote from Bucks point guard Damian Lillard in order to take a shot at Patrick Beverley.
“Con man. Flip from above the rim,” wrote Haliburton on X, quoting an old post of a video in which Beverley was talking trash about Haliburton’s game to reporters.
Lillard and Beverley, who are now teammates in Milwaukee, haven’t always gotten along. In a previous spat between the two guards, Lillard used that same quote to compare Beverley to Bernie Mac’s character, Flip, from the 1994 film, “Above the Rim.”
Suffice to say, Flip isn’t a character most would want to draw connections to, and Haliburton made his own feelings on Beverley abundantly clear with his seven-word tweet on Thursday.
It’s not the first time that the Bucks have been eliminated by Indiana this year. The Pacers knocked Milwaukee out of the in-season tournament, a game during which Haliburton did his fair share of showboating, which prompted a response from Damian Lillard in a postgame press conference.
After ending the Bucks’ season with their 4–2 series win, Haliburton once again was eager to celebrate and took the opportunity to troll Beverley in savage fashion.
