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Milwaukee Bucks: Injury Update: Thanasis Antetokounmpo is out for today’s game at Chicago.
Bucks Media Information: Injury Update: Thanasis Antetokounmpo (Illness) is questionable for today’s game at Chicago.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was spotted attending Super Bowl LX at Levi’s Stadium on Sunday. He was seen leaving the stadium following the Seattle Seahawks’ 29–13 victory over the New England Patriots. Several active and former NBA players attended the championship game. The event featured notable appearances from Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell, who attended to support his fiancée and pregame performer Coco Jones, as well as NBA legend Carmelo Anthony. Giannis watched the game alongside his brothers and Milwaukee Bucks teammates, Thanasis and Alex, and businessman Richard Hsiao.
Thanasis Antetokounmpo posed a simple question for the national media who built a narrative over Giannis Antetokounmpo this week saying that he either wanted to be traded from the Milwaukee Bucks or should have demanded one. "What happened to integrity?" Thanasis Antetokounmpo asked bluntly to open his podcast, "Thanalysis," that was recorded shortly after the NBA trade deadline on Thursday, Feb. 5. A few folks this could have been directed at were Stephen A. Smith, Bill Simmons and Shams Charania.
Antetokounmpo's older brother, Thanasis, who is in his second stint with the Bucks, didn't name names but he laid into folks who "go out your way and you start creating this stuff." As he noted, it then "spreads like wildfire." That's what happened throughout the trade deadline process involving Giannis Antetokounmpo, who has spent his entire 13-year career with the Bucks and led the team to the 2021 NBA championship. Thanasis Antetokounmpo said he understands the nature of the business but what he doesn't understand is unfounded rumors. "I don't subscribe to it," Thanasis said. "People make money off this with no ending for it."
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He added: "What happened to you know like, 'Let me ask Giannis,'" Thanasis said. "If I hear one more time 'his camp said.' We are his camp; we don’t talk to no one. I don’t understand this notion 'his camp said.'
And when the trade deadline came and went, the national reports backtracked, saying the Bucks were never serious about trading their superstar and suddenly came to the realization that Antetokounmpo didn't request a trade. "I'm all for sources. I'm all for media, but I just say integrity. Integrity goes both ways."
Puka Nacua had some fun with the Giannis Antetokounmpo situation after the NBA trade deadline passed Thursday. During an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show, the Los Angeles Rams wide receiver joked that the Milwaukee Bucks star and Cleveland Browns star Myles Garrett are similar because it's never fully clear if they want to be traded or remain with their current teams. "It's like, 'Oh, I don't want to be here,'" Nacua said. "And then, 'Hey, look, I'm back guys.'"
Also, a client like Giannis is worth a ton of money to an agent, and so there are always sources suggesting a star and his agent are at odds with each other—the hubbub might create an opening for someone else to move in. And in this case, Rich Paul of Klutch Sports not only has a tendency to talk about Giannis, but also–multiple sources agree–has been talking to Giannis’s brother Thanasis as of late. Rich, it seems clear, would like to represent Giannis, and (despite what’s happening with Anthony Davis in Dallas) is said to have been making the case that he’s the guy who can get a star player where he wants to go.
In his locker after the game, Antetokounmpo had a signed purple No. 23 jersey from James. Giannis' brother, Thanasis, had a signed jersey from Bronny James. Antetokounmpo collects jerseys from his contemporaries around the league and said he asked James on the court after the final buzzer for this latest addition to his collection. "You never know," Antetokounmpo said. "Might be our last game against one another."
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Kostas Antetokounmpo is set for a loan assignment at Aris Betsson. Seeking an upgrade in his playing status for the remainder of the 2025-26 season, Olympiacos is expected to soon officially confirm the loan of the 28-year-old center. A former NBA and EuroLeague champion, the brother of Milwaukee Bucks teammates Giannis, Thanasis, and Alex, is entering the BKT EuroCup for the first time in his career. Switching to the second tier of Euroleague Basketball, he meets the Thessaloniki outfit at 6-6 in Gro
Antetokounmpo then asked for Turner’s thoughts on Haliburton, his teammate for 3 1/2 seasons in Indiana. Turner smiled and called Haliburton a troll and a heel, roles he said Haliburton embraces, but also ones shaped by public perception. “Tyrese also knows he’s protected, too,” Turner said. “So, he can go out there, talk his s—, say whatever the hell he wants to do, and he knows he has backup at the end of the day. Now, he’s not going to be talking the same s— if you’re in the middle of the street. That’s what guys don’t do in this league.”
Turner praised Haliburton’s professionalism, his qualities as a teammate and his devotion to his family. “He’s a helluva teammate, bro,” Turner said. “You know how we talk about how you’re supposed to, as a team, come together? That camaraderie? Bro, he’s setting up all the team dinners. He’s setting up all the team parties. He wants people to, like, be together. He definitely embodies that.”
When Thanasis Antetokounmpo asked whether the league feels a bit like WWE — full of “fake beefs” — Myles Turner didn’t hold back. “Do you see all these cameras right here, bro,” Turner said, gesturing around the podcast studio. “At the end of the day, bro, that’s what it’s all about. Guys have egos. Guys have brands. Guys have stuff they want to protect. Some guys got to be the tough guy. Then you go outside and see them on the courts, and it’s, ‘Hey man, how’s it going?’ That’s how it is, bro, for real. Now don’t get me wrong, there are some guys who are really ’bout it. But it’s very few. It’s maybe 5 percent of this league — smaller than that — that’s really going to do something. One, no one’s throwing a punch in an NBA game. You do that, you know you’re suspended. You know you’re fined. No one wants to pay that bread.”
