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Giannis Addresses Postgame Confrontation w_ Tyrese Haliburton s Dad _ 2025 NBA Playoffs · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I don't really see you as someone that gets into
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  Speaker 1: it with people. After the game. It looked like you
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  Speaker 1: were kind of standing there by the three point line.
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  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden you're in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: kind of everything. Just what what happened? Kind of about
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  Speaker 1: on the floor after the game.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing, I this is the last TI I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I want like a lot last the game.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter. One thing I'll say is that
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  Speaker 2: I believe like being humbled in victory. That's how way
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: There can be a lot of people out there that
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  Speaker 2: are like, no, when you when you win the game,
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  Speaker 2: tag sheet and you know it's it's a green light
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  Speaker 2: for you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree.
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  Speaker 2: I've won the championship. They have it okay, and that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't say anything. I'm not trying to minimize their effort.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember when I won. My mom My mom
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  Speaker 2: does she's she's never missed the games from from February
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  Speaker 2: February eleventh or thirteen when she came in in Milwaukee
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  Speaker 2: against the NIXT You've never missed the game when we
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  Speaker 2: want a champion. She remember my mom, She wascared to cross.
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  Speaker 2: She was like, am I allowed to come and hug
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  Speaker 2: my son? I see, except now my brother does does
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  Speaker 2: media for this year. He wants to come back and play.
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  Speaker 2: But like, except the Nats, you've never seen my family
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  Speaker 2: Like see, of course, I see.
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  Speaker 3: This is not something that we do. We don't.
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  Speaker 2: I try to keep my family away from the game.
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  Speaker 2: But losing the game, emotions run high. Having a fan,
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  Speaker 2: which at the moment I thought it was fine, but
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  Speaker 2: then I realized it was Titis's song, which I love.
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  Speaker 2: Titus I think is a great competitor. He was his
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  Speaker 2: dad sorry, coming in the floor and showing me his
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  Speaker 2: son at towel with his face.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we do. This is what we do.
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  Speaker 2: This if we do this, I feel like that's very,
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  Speaker 2: very disrespectful. You know, my dad, my dad. If you
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  Speaker 2: guys go and axt and learn, my dad's not with
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  Speaker 2: us no more. My dad used to come in the
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  Speaker 2: family room and it was the most respectful person ever.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you you come from nothing and you
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  Speaker 2: work your whole life to sell stuff in the street,
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  Speaker 2: and your whole life, you'll be scared of the police
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  Speaker 2: of deporting you and sending you back to your country.
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  Speaker 3: You have to protect your kids with all means. You
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  Speaker 3: create this.
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  Speaker 2: Mentality of being humbled your whole life to not kind
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  Speaker 2: of disrespect anybody, not make the test high, the emotions high.
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  Speaker 2: So anybody can you know, snitch or use something bad
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  Speaker 2: about you. So when it came here, I remember it.
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  Speaker 2: I was like that, why why are you so humbled?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you going to the family room. We don't
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  Speaker 2: even say word, you sit in the back. Why why
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  Speaker 2: are you like that? You don't don't worry about I
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  Speaker 2: don't want that. That's how I grew up, That's what
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  Speaker 2: I had around. So when I see other dads which
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  Speaker 2: don't disrespect, maybe if my son play basketball, I might
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  Speaker 2: be in the court. I might be the one on
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  Speaker 2: the court. And like twenty years later, you can play
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  Speaker 2: this interview and say, Janis, you're contradicting yourself.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll see in twenty years.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm talking about right now how I feel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: having somebody is that which I'm happy. I'm happy for
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  Speaker 2: him him, and I'm happy for his son, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy that he's happy for his son. That's how you're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to feel. But coming to me and direxpecting me
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  Speaker 2: and cursing at me. I think it's totally unacceptable, totally unacceptable, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and the I'm not the guy that points fingers because
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  Speaker 2: in my neighborhood, Sneeze gets titches. So I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to say something, you know, for him to say to
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  Speaker 2: get fined or anything. But it's not respectful attack with
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  Speaker 2: him at the end, and to be uh, I think
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  Speaker 2: we're in a good place there