Ann Arbor — Isaiah Livers has three father figures in his life: his dad, his stepdad and coach Juwan Howard. He butts heads with all three of them.
That showed when Big Ten Network cameras captured the senior forward getting into a verbal spat with Howard during a media timeout late in the first half of Sunday’s overtime win against Oakland.
But Livers dismissed the notion that it was a heated moment.
"He was holding me accountable,” Livers said. “He was just challenging me and that's how me and coach are. Weirdly enough, that's how we communicate.