{"id":24983,"date":"2026-01-24T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-star-expects-to-miss-up-to-six-weeks-with-calf-issue\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:42:42","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-star-expects-to-miss-up-to-six-weeks-with-calf-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-star-expects-to-miss-up-to-six-weeks-with-calf-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo: Milwaukee Bucks star expects to miss up to six weeks with calf issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo expects to be out for about four to six weeks with a calf injury.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo played 32 minutes of his side&#8217;s 102-100 defeat by the Denver Nuggets on Friday before coming off in the final minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Probably the next steps will be, go to [an] MRI tomorrow,&#8221; said the 31-year-old, who produced 22 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists against the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the MRI, they&#8217;ll tell me, probably, I popped something in my calf, in my soleus, something. They&#8217;ll probably give me a protocol of four to six weeks that I&#8217;ll be out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is from my experience being around the NBA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;After that, I&#8217;m going to work my butt off to come back. That will probably be the end of February, beginning of March.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn4083gknplo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo expects to be out for about four to six weeks with a calf injury. Antetokounmpo played 32 minutes of his side&#8217;s 102-100 defeat by the Denver Nuggets on Friday before coming off in the final minute of the game. &#8220;Probably the next steps will be, go to [an] MRI tomorrow,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24985,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions\/24985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}