wildly celebrated on the streets of New York<\/a>, that fan was tracked down by ESPN host Pat McAfee, and guard Tyrese Haliburton wants to give him the VIP treatment.<\/p>\n\u201cPat told me he found you yesterday and called me and said I got to get on the show and talk to you myself,\u201d Haliburton said on \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show\u201d on Monday. \u201cI want to personally bring you and a plus one out here to come to Game 4 here in Indiana. I\u2019ll bring you guys out here. Put you guys up, give you guys seats to the game. The Pacers, everyone in the organization wants to make sure to care of you. The whole team is excited to meet you; it\u2019s all we\u2019ve been talking about. Everyone\u2019s seen the video so we want to bring you out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
This Pacers fan was harassed by Knicks fans on the streets of Madison Square Garden. <\/p>\n
The fan in question, identified as Hans Perez, is a firefighter and added that he\u2019s hoping to make the event but may need to get someone to take his shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s awesome,\u201d Perez said. \u201cThank you, Tyrese, man. You are awesome. The team is awesome, I appreciate that. Man, let\u2019s go Pacers man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyrese Haliburton offers PAcers fan free tickets to Game 4. X, @PatMcAfeeShow<\/p>\n
Perez was nailed in the back of the head with a bag of garbage while walking away from a pack of wild Knicks fans.<\/p>\n
Piles of garbage hit him multiple times in the poor showing from Knicks fans as they followed him through the streets to heckle him. <\/p>\n
Knicks fans follow the Pacers jersey wearing fan after a Game 6 win. X, @PAtMcAfeeShow<\/p>\n
With the Pacers advancing to the conference finals, the Knicks will face Indiana in the playoffs for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first time the Knicks have reached the Eastern Conference Finals since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Pacers are supporting their own. After one Pacers fan was harassed outside Madison Square Garden following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,126,304,6,11,197,1136,191,3810,3806,2881,66,2086,6839,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-46181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana-pacers","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-playoffs","13":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks","18":"tag-pat-mcafee","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-entertainment","21":"tag-sports-fans","22":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114542464404940512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}