Giannis Antetokounmpo will not play against Miami

“We don’t want to feel what we felt three, four weeks ago. I don’t think anybody in this locker room wants to go back there. It was miserable for everybody. We were coming in here and working, practicing for three hours, four hours, trying to figure things out, what was going bad. But right now, we are clicking, and we just got to stay here. That doesn’t mean we’re going to win every game, but we’ve got to stay here. We’ve got to stay here as a team, keep competing.” -via New York Times / November 26, 2024

Disappointment over that missed call aside, things are looking up in Milwaukee, and Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, the reigning Eastern Conference Player of the Week, has no interest in returning to where his team started the 2024-25 season. “I feel like going through the season, it was sloppy in the beginning,” Antetokounmpo said after the Bucks’ 125-119 win over the Hornets on Saturday night. “I don’t know if our confidence, for everybody, was high. We were losing games. … I think now, as a team, we figured things out. -via New York Times / November 26, 2024

Giannis Antetokounmpo and his wife, Mariah, and mother Veronica, traveled to New York City on Nov. 14 to receive a humanitarian award from the International Rescue Committee at its Global Rescue Dinner through the family’s work with the Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation (CAFF). Giannis accepted the John C. Whitehead Humanitarian Award, which is given “to individuals whose sustained commitment to humanity embodies John’s spirit and passion for humanitarian causes, and who have made significant contributions to saving and improving lives around the world.” -via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel / November 25, 2024