{"id":109208,"date":"2025-08-31T19:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:06:06","slug":"bucks-re-sign-thanasis-antetokounmpo-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109208\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks re-sign Thanasis Antetokounmpo to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3102533\/thanasis-antetokounmpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thanasis Antetokounmpo<\/a>, who missed all of the 2024-25 season with a torn Achilles tendon, has re-signed with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f59bbabc-eedb-9ad2-c5dd-9bcd9f450a2f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>, the team announced Sunday, meaning he&#8217;ll remain a teammate of his brother, two-time MVP <a data-player-guid=\"00985054-c4b3-4247-e825-ddf062d457c3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032977\/giannis-antetokounmpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanasis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s one-year deal is for $2.9 million, sources told ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently playing with the Greek National Team at EuroBasket.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, 33, last played for the Bucks during the 2023-24 season, seeing minimal action in 34 games off the bench and averaging less than a point per game. After being with the team since 2019, he was off the Bucks&#8217; roster last season while dealing with his injury.<\/p>\n<p>He has career averages of 2.4 points, 1.6 rebounds and 7.7 minutes in 198 regular-season games.<\/p>\n<p>Thanasis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s re-signing comes after the the Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s representatives, Giorgios Panou and Alex Saratsis, were expected to sit down during the offseason to discuss future plans, sources told Charania in May.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo has played all 12 of his NBA seasons with Milwaukee, and he averaged 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Thanasis Antetokounmpo, who missed all of the 2024-25 season with a torn Achilles tendon, has re-signed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-109208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}