{"id":25577,"date":"2026-02-07T20:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-relief-after-no-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:34:52","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-relief-after-no-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-relief-after-no-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo: Milwaukee Bucks &#8216;relief&#8217; after no trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bucks claimed their third consecutive win on Friday night, beating the Indiana Pacers 105-99, but remain 12th in the NBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference, three wins behind the Charlotte Hornets in the final play-off spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bucks have a 6-14 losing record when playing without Antetokounmpo, but have won 15 of their 30 games when he has been in the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo averages 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game and a 65% shooting success this season, earning him a place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c1klxr8vrnro\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">NBA All-Star game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has completed a workout on court before the past three Bucks games and posted a clip on social media from the film The Wolf of Wall Street after Thursday&#8217;s trade deadline passed, along with a message: &#8220;Legends don&#8217;t chase. They attract.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a relief,&#8221; Rivers said. &#8220;I thought Giannis&#8217; tweet was like a unifying thing for all the players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c2lglgk4jr2o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bucks claimed their third consecutive win on Friday night, beating the Indiana Pacers 105-99, but remain 12th in the NBA&#8217;s Eastern Conference, three wins behind the Charlotte Hornets in the final play-off spot. The Bucks have a 6-14 losing record when playing without Antetokounmpo, but have won 15 of their 30 games when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25577","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\/25577","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=25577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25579,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25577\/revisions\/25579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}