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I spoke about all this with Donte DiVincenzo earlier this season and he told me that his move to Sacramento was considered such a certainty that he and his girlfriend had already begun receiving videos of Sacramento-area homes from a realtor in the name of "trying to get acclimated." He had also learned at the time that Antetokounmpo's brother Thanasis was heading a backchannel recruiting effort to convince Bogdanović that playing in Milwaukee with Giannis was the optimal next step in his career. "I was the first domino," DiVicenzo told The Stein Line.
You want to be put in a position to succeed. Antetokounmpo: "Yeah. Exactly. Is it bad for me saying, I'm 31 years old, I won the championship when I was 26 years old. Then the question creeps in your head, like ... Did I wait too long? Did I do the right thing?" Did you wait too long for what? Antetokounmpo: "Being here. [Staying in Milwaukee.] "But then I'm like, No, this is what I want. I want to be here. I want to be with my team. I want to win here again. This is my home. I've spent more years [that I can remember] here than in Greece. It's my home. I want to help the community with my wife and my brothers. "Thanasis is loved here, my brother, my mother are loved here. My kids and I ... it's a normal life, I have a normal life. If you go somewhere else, all this switches. But I don't want to look back and be like ..." (Antetokounmpo pauses. He's joined by his brothers Thanasis and Alex, who played together in the latest Bucks game, and he congratulates them, beaming with pride, but also looking worn out and tired.) Antetokounmpo: “This is why you have conversations with all-time greats like KG (Kevin Garnett). Dirk (Nowitzki) was in the same position, and chose to stay. We’ll see. We’ll see what’s going to happen.”
Oh No He Didn't: Shams: "Giannis is trying to ramp up this week from my understanding...he wants to play with his brothers before the regular season ends, he's making very clear behind the scenes that's his goal"
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— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) April 6, 2026
"Giannis is trying to ramp up this week from my understanding...he wants to play with his brothers before the regular season ends, he's making very clear behind the scenes that's his goal" pic.twitter.com/9rBY5ILlh9
Antetokounmpo made it clear he wants to play. But he also wants to play with Alex. He had the chance to play with brothers Thanasis and Kostas in EuroBasket last summer, and he's missing the chance to play with Thanasis and Alex this spring. “You know me, and maybe sometimes when you put this in the story, they won't believe, but you know me," he said. "You saw me. I grabbed my brother's jersey and the ball. I ran to the car, I was looking for my mom, right? My mom was here. I told her to come back, right? I told my mom to stay, so she could give Alex a hug. Do you think I don't want to play a basketball game with my little brother?" He is incredulous at the question that he might be OK with sitting out. "This hurts me," he said, of the decision to hold him out.
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Eric Nehm: Here is the Bucks injury report vs. Dallas (3/31): Out: Giannis Antetokounmpo Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Porter Jr. Bobby Portis Jr. Questionable: Gary Harris (Personal Reasons) Probable Kyle Kuzma (right Achilles tendinopathy) Ryan Rollins (left hip flexor soreness)
Milwaukee Bucks: Injury Update: Thanasis Antetokounmpo is out for today’s game vs. San Antonio.
Thanasis Antetokounmpo on getting drafted by the Knicks: I don't know why they drafted me because when I was sitting down they were asking me about players and they kept saying… because it was two sides. I don't know if people remember this, but it was two sides of the Knicks. It was the Knicks, the New York Knicks, Allan Houston, and everybody else that was like in the organization, and then it was the other side of the Lakers when Phil Jackson came. So, it was those two that when they were interviewing me, there was I remember vividly, I would sit down at the table and it was like the Lakers’ side and the Knicks’ side. They would ask me, you know, regular questions and it's like, hey, like, you know, where do you live? Do you have a spouse? Do you have kids? Like, no, no, all these other things. And the other people would ask me like, "What do you think about Dennis Rodman?" Like, "Oh, shoot. Okay. Yeah. What do you think about Trevor Ariza?" And then now looking back, I was like, "Oh, they were comparing me. They were trying to get me to say like, hey, because if I had said I don't really see myself like them, they’re not my style. I don't think I get drafted to the Knicks, because I love those players, you know, they would be like, and Shannon Brown and all these kind of like cats that were saying. I was like, "Oh, okay. I get what they're saying." And then, you know, I ended up getting drafted. One of, you know, one of the happiest moments in my life because I was very very worried. You know, when Giannis got drafted, I was like, "Wow, I got to make it. I got to do something for my family. I got to make sure we're good."
Milwaukee Bucks: Injury Update: Thanasis Antetokounmpo is out for today’s game at Chicago.
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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."
