I can think of two simple rules for ownership of the game ball, it belongs to the home team, which would vest property rights in the Bucks, or it belongs to the winning team, which would vest property rights in the Bucks. And yet somebody on the Pacers' bench had the presence of mind to hang onto it for Mr Tshiebwa.
A brawl worthy of the antebellum Senate followed.
Giannis Antetokounmpo exchanged heated words with members of the Indiana staff and raced toward the Pacers’ locker room Wednesday night as the teams squared off in a hallway in a dispute over the game ball following the Milwaukee star’s franchise-record 64-point performance.Unlike baseball, where that ball for the first hit or first strikeout can be retrieved from the playing field, or dickered for if that first hit is a home run, or football, where there are multiple game balls in use, including a special one for place-kicking, in basketball, there is one ball in use, and after 48 minutes it accumulates some wear, floor grime, and sweat, and Mr Antetokounmpo immediately recognized that somebody had given him ... a virgin basketball. Which he intends to send to his mom. “The ball that I have and will take and give to my mom for sure."
After the Bucks' 140-126 victory, Antetokounmpo had an animated discussion with Indiana star Tyrese Haliburton and other Pacers before rushing from the court toward the Indiana locker room in search of the game ball.
The game in which Mr Tshiebwa scored his first points might also be meaningful to him and to his mom. But there is no Solomonic solution possible, is there? Another basketball player, Richard Jefferson, suggested an opportunity to ... use markets. "Giannis should buy it back from the kid kind of like how you buy somebody's number. Just give the kid a gesture." Or autograph a ball with something like "Congratulations on your first points."
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