{"id":8360,"date":"2024-12-20T02:55:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-cup-final-giannis-antetokounmpo-inspires-milwaukee-bucks-to-win-over-oklahoma-city-thunder\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T02:55:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T02:55:18","slug":"nba-cup-final-giannis-antetokounmpo-inspires-milwaukee-bucks-to-win-over-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-cup-final-giannis-antetokounmpo-inspires-milwaukee-bucks-to-win-over-oklahoma-city-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Cup final: Giannis Antetokounmpo inspires Milwaukee Bucks to win over Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Giannis Antetokounmpo claimed a triple-double as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in this season’s NBA Cup final.<\/b><\/p>\n

The mid-season tournament was introduced last year,<\/a> with the semi-finals and final taking place in Las Vegas, and the Bucks became the second winners with a 97-81 victory at the T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo registered 26 points, 19 rebounds and 10 assists before being named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n

Damian Lillard added 23 points for the Bucks, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 21 points but shot just eight-for-24 in a poor shooting performance from the Western Conference leaders.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee led 51-50 at half-time and 77-64 heading into the fourth period, with Brook Lopez scoring successive three-point jumpers to stretch their lead to 86-66.<\/p>\n

“I’m so proud of the group,” said Antetokounmpo, a two-time league MVP. “Everybody was extremely locked in.<\/p>\n

“We came in, we were focused, played great basketball, and we were able to win. We had this goal as a team, and we accomplished it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Giannis Antetokounmpo claimed a triple-double as the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Oklahoma City Thunder in this season’s NBA Cup final. The mid-season tournament was introduced last year, with the semi-finals and final taking place in Las Vegas, and the Bucks became the second winners with a 97-81 victory at the T-Mobile Arena. Antetokounmpo registered 26 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8360","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\/8360","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=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8362,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/8362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}