Milwaukee Bucks fans endured a dramatic offseason characterized by a shocking release of a star player, the ensuing contentious signing of a prominent player from a rival team, and excessive media speculation about the future of one Giannis Antetokounmpo.
While the NBA season is young, Giannis Antetokounmpo is looking highly capable of earning his third career NBA Most Valuable Player title. Through seven games, Antetokounmpo is averaging 32.3 points, 12.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists.
After falling to the Toronto Raptors, the Milwaukee Bucks have a few days off before returning to action on Friday. Giannis Antetokounmpo, however, seemed restless.
The all-time list of NBA All-Stars is obviously long, and notably distinguished. However, there are some players — for various reasons — who the casual, or even most-dedicated, NBA fans can't recall having earned All-Star nods.
After losing to the Toronto Raptors, the Milwaukee Bucks don’t play again until this Friday. But superstar forward Giannis Antetokounmpo seems to be aching
Giannis Antetokounmpo’s clutch midrange shot may have rescued the Milwaukee Bucks from their rivals, the Indiana Pacers two nights ago, but it also disguised a deeper issue.
Giannis Antetokounmpo is intent on leading the Milwaukee Bucks to another NBA title. While the team added Myles Turner over the summer, he plays more of a supporting role than a second star.
Although Giannis Antetokounmpo is a genuine NBA superstar, the Milwaukee Bucks forward often still doesn’t get favorable calls in games. That can be a subjective statement, but in the eyes of Bucks head coach Doc Rivers and Milwaukee fans, Antetokounmpo is not getting enough calls.
After a thrilling win over the Indiana Pacers on the road on Monday, Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks couldn’t find enough energy to beat the Toronto Raptors in the second game of a back-to-back road assignments on Tuesday night.
The Toronto Raptors are starting to round into form. After starting the season 1-4, the Toronto Raptors looked dead in the water and were in desperate need of some wins.
Giannis Antetokounmpo led the Milwaukee Bucks to their fifth victory of the season against the Indiana Pacers on Monday. Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, including a fadeaway mid-range jumpshot to win the game in the final seconds.
On Monday evening, the Milwaukee Bucks got back into the win column with a narrow road win over the Indiana Pacers thanks to a fallaway jumper from Giannis Antetokounmpo at the buzzer.
The Milwaukee Bucks entered the season knowing they were heaping more responsibility than ever on Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s plate. He has no Damian Lillard, Khris Middleton, or Jrue Holiday riding shotgun to ease the burden.
Myles Turner received a somewhat surprising reception when he returned to Indiana for the first time as a visiting player on Monday night, and Giannis Antetokounmpo criticized Pacers fans over the way they treated his Milwaukee Bucks teammate.
RJ Barrett and Brandon Ingram are forming a dynamic duo for the Toronto Raptors, who will look for more heroics from the pair when they play host to the Milwaukee Bucks for the second time in 12 days on Tuesday.
There was tension in the air in Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Monday when the Milwaukee Bucks faced off against the Indiana Pacers. This was, of course, Myles Turner’s first game against the Pacers since he left the team in free agency in the summer, and the night proved to be just as chaotic as one might have imagined.
Giannis Antetokounmpo capped his game-high 33-point performance on Monday with a buzzer-beating, turnaround fadeaway to lift the Milwaukee Bucks past the Indiana Pacers, 117-115, in Indianapolis.
The Indiana Pacers’ television broadcast team let their disgust be known after Giannis Antetokounmpo’s game-winning buzzer-beater on Monday night. Indiana faced off against the hated division rival Milwaukee Bucks at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Ind.
Giannis Antetokounmpo capped his game-high 33-point performance on Monday with a buzzer-beating, turnaround fadeaway to lift the Milwaukee Bucks past the Indiana Pacers, 117-115, in Indianapolis.
The Milwaukee Bucks stumbled in a close home defeat against the Sacramento Kings. Giannis Antetokounmpo shined in his return from injury after sitting out the game against the Golden State Warriors, but despite his strong effort, Milwaukee couldn’t close it out and took its second loss of the season.
Milwaukee Bucks All-NBA power forward Giannis Antetokounmpo is supremely confident in his revamped club's aptitude this season. Ahead of the start of the season, Antetokounmpo acknowledged that Milwaukee was heading into the season as merely a chippy playoff club, not a title favorite, per Eric Nehm of The Athletic.