Patrick Beverley could be facing discipline from the NBA after throwing the ball into the stands and hitting a woman during the Milwaukee Bucks' season-ending loss to Indiana on Thursday, then kicking a female journalist out of his interview because she does not subscribe to his podcast.

Beverley was caught on camera rising from his seat on the Bucks bench, throwing the ball with two hands into the stands and hitting a woman in the head. The woman, sitting three rows behind the bench, did not appear to be the target.

After another fan tossed the ball back, Beverley immediately fired it right back at him with a much harder throw before being restrained by teammates. Asked by a reporter after the game what happened between him and the fan, the veteran guard replied, "Nothing."

Later on social media, though, Beverley responded further.

"Not Fair at all," Beverley wrote. "Exchanged between a fan and our ball club all night. We warned and asked for help all night. Not fair."

"But," he added in a separate post, "I have to be better. And I will."

A memo distributed by the NBA to teams each year states that players are prohibited from throwing or kicking any object, including the ball, into the stands. A player who does so is supposed to receive a technical foul and is subject to an automatic ejection and a fine and/or suspension, if the ball was thrown or kicked with force.

Beverley did not receive a technical foul and was not ejected from Thursday's game, but does face a possible fine and/or suspension.

Bucks coach Doc Rivers told reporters that he and Beverley discussed that incident.

"He made the comment to me about what was being said back his way," Rivers said, "and I just said, 'I get it, but we're coaches and athletes, we're the entertainers or whatever we are. Sometimes they can be in the wrong, but you just can't do those certain things.' And he knows that as well."

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