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On March 25, 2018, 22 million people tuned in to the “60 Minutes” television program to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels talk about her one-night stand with a future president of the United States. While it’s a pretty good bet that all 22...
On March 25, 2018, 22 million people tuned in to the “60 Minutes” television program to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels talk about her one-night stand with a future president of the United States. While it’s a pretty good bet that all 22 million viewers knew exactly who Daniels was, a sizable percentage of that enormous audience had probably not heard of Giannis Antetokounmpo, the 23-year-old, Greek basketball player whose engaging profile followed the extended Daniels segment.
One group that’s very familiar with Antetokounmpo lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Athens-born son of Nigerian immigrants has been playing forward and guard for the Milwaukee Bucks since 2013. For these basketball fans, the 6-foot, 11-inch Antetokounmpo is the incredibly agile player who routinely executes impossible plays—from behind-the-back passes to spectacular steals to coast-to-coast fast breaks that end in punishing dunks to difficult fall-away jumpers. He’s even earned an assist by passing the ball between his legs, hiking it like a football center at the line of scrimmage, and in a game against the New York Knicks, Antetokounmpo literally leaped over a 6-foot, 6-inch defender before stuffing the ball through the hoop. These feats and others have earned him the endearing nickname, the "Greek Freak."
For Bucks fans, Antetokounmpo is the latest in a line of stars who have played for the team. One year after the team was founded in 1968, the Bucks signed a center from UCLA named Lew Alcindor, who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after his team swept the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA Finals. Guard Oscar Robertson joined the Bucks in 1970. Other key Bucks players include Sidney Moncrief, Bob Lanier, Ray Allen, and Marques Johnson. That’s some pretty heady company, but Antetokounmpo easily deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as any of them.
Part of the appeal of Antetokounmpo is his story, a rags-to-riches tale that could melt the heart of even the most cynical sports fan. According to the “60 Minutes” segment, Antetokounmpo grew up poor in a two-room apartment, often sharing a bed with two or three of his four siblings. To make ends meet, the kids sold sunglasses on the street, and even when Giannis and his brother Thanasis got a chance to play Greek second-division basketball, the family was too broke at one point to afford a pair of shoes for each boy, so the brothers would trade off wearing the precious shoes as each got playing time.
That lesson must have stuck, because even today, despite making tens of millions of dollars a year, Antetokounmpo lives in a two-bedroom rental apartment with his girlfriend, mother, and youngest brother. Meanwhile, the market for anything with the words “Giannis Antetokounmpo” on them has exploded. Panini Prizm rookie cards are particularly hot, as are signed jerseys bearing his number, 34.
Continue readingOn March 25, 2018, 22 million people tuned in to the “60 Minutes” television program to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels talk about her one-night stand with a future president of the United States. While it’s a pretty good bet that all 22 million viewers knew exactly who Daniels was, a sizable percentage of that enormous audience had probably not heard of Giannis Antetokounmpo, the 23-year-old, Greek basketball player whose engaging profile followed the extended Daniels segment.
One group that’s very familiar with Antetokounmpo lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Athens-born son of Nigerian immigrants has been playing forward and guard for the Milwaukee Bucks since 2013. For these basketball fans, the 6-foot, 11-inch Antetokounmpo is the incredibly agile player who routinely executes impossible plays—from behind-the-back passes to spectacular steals to coast-to-coast fast breaks that end in punishing dunks to difficult fall-away jumpers. He’s even earned an assist by passing the ball between his legs, hiking it like a football center at the line of scrimmage, and in a game against the New York Knicks, Antetokounmpo literally leaped over a 6-foot, 6-inch defender before stuffing the ball through the hoop. These feats and others have earned him the endearing nickname, the "Greek Freak."
For Bucks fans, Antetokounmpo is the latest in a line of stars who have played for the team. One year after the team was founded in 1968, the Bucks signed a center from UCLA named Lew Alcindor, who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after his team swept the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA Finals. Guard Oscar Robertson joined the Bucks in 1970. Other key Bucks players include Sidney Moncrief, Bob Lanier, Ray Allen, and Marques Johnson. That’s some pretty heady company, but Antetokounmpo easily deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as any of them.
Part of the appeal of Antetokounmpo is his story, a rags-to-riches tale that could melt the heart of even...
On March 25, 2018, 22 million people tuned in to the “60 Minutes” television program to hear adult-film star Stormy Daniels talk about her one-night stand with a future president of the United States. While it’s a pretty good bet that all 22 million viewers knew exactly who Daniels was, a sizable percentage of that enormous audience had probably not heard of Giannis Antetokounmpo, the 23-year-old, Greek basketball player whose engaging profile followed the extended Daniels segment.
One group that’s very familiar with Antetokounmpo lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Athens-born son of Nigerian immigrants has been playing forward and guard for the Milwaukee Bucks since 2013. For these basketball fans, the 6-foot, 11-inch Antetokounmpo is the incredibly agile player who routinely executes impossible plays—from behind-the-back passes to spectacular steals to coast-to-coast fast breaks that end in punishing dunks to difficult fall-away jumpers. He’s even earned an assist by passing the ball between his legs, hiking it like a football center at the line of scrimmage, and in a game against the New York Knicks, Antetokounmpo literally leaped over a 6-foot, 6-inch defender before stuffing the ball through the hoop. These feats and others have earned him the endearing nickname, the "Greek Freak."
For Bucks fans, Antetokounmpo is the latest in a line of stars who have played for the team. One year after the team was founded in 1968, the Bucks signed a center from UCLA named Lew Alcindor, who changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after his team swept the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA Finals. Guard Oscar Robertson joined the Bucks in 1970. Other key Bucks players include Sidney Moncrief, Bob Lanier, Ray Allen, and Marques Johnson. That’s some pretty heady company, but Antetokounmpo easily deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as any of them.
Part of the appeal of Antetokounmpo is his story, a rags-to-riches tale that could melt the heart of even the most cynical sports fan. According to the “60 Minutes” segment, Antetokounmpo grew up poor in a two-room apartment, often sharing a bed with two or three of his four siblings. To make ends meet, the kids sold sunglasses on the street, and even when Giannis and his brother Thanasis got a chance to play Greek second-division basketball, the family was too broke at one point to afford a pair of shoes for each boy, so the brothers would trade off wearing the precious shoes as each got playing time.
That lesson must have stuck, because even today, despite making tens of millions of dollars a year, Antetokounmpo lives in a two-bedroom rental apartment with his girlfriend, mother, and youngest brother. Meanwhile, the market for anything with the words “Giannis Antetokounmpo” on them has exploded. Panini Prizm rookie cards are particularly hot, as are signed jerseys bearing his number, 34.
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