ESPN’s general public relations office issued a assertion on Saturday afternoon denying a report that Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley was banned from community programming.
The report, which came from Michael McCarthy of Front Office environment Sporting activities Friday, indicated that Beverley had been banned from showing up on any ESPN displays just after the Bucks guard ejected community producer Malinda Adams from his postgame media availability on Thursday night time.
“There was an faulty report that advised Patrick Beverley was banned from showing up on ESPN. He is just not banned and under no circumstances was,” the statement from the community said Saturday.
Beverley’s verbal altercation with Adams arrived right after she admitted to the Bucks guard that she did not subscribe to his podcast.
Beverley’s actions all through the media scrum, as nicely as for the duration of the game when he threw a ball at a team of Pacers admirers guiding the Milwaukee bench two times, was commonly criticized in the aftermath of Milwaukee’s elimination from the playoffs.
Beverley apologized to Adams on Friday, she mentioned in a publish on X (previously Twitter) Friday.
There is no phrase yet on any self-control for Beverley from the NBA pertaining to both of the two incidents.
