{"id":143822,"date":"2025-09-15T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143822\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:18:07","slug":"giannis-calls-greeces-bronze-his-greatest-accomplishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/143822\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis calls Greece&#8217;s bronze his &#8216;greatest accomplishment&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIGA, Latvia &#8212; <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> scored 30 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, leading Greece to a 92-89 win over Finland in the bronze medal game at EuroBasket on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was Greece&#8217;s first EuroBasket medal since winning bronze in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did it. This is probably one of the biggest accomplishments that I&#8217;ve ever accomplished as an athlete,&#8221; said Antetokounmpo, 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> star and a past NBA champion and MVP. &#8220;I know I&#8217;ve won an NBA championship, but there&#8217;s no feeling like representing your national team and representing 12 million people that breathe and live this national team. This is probably the greatest accomplishment so far in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This is probably the greatest accomplishment in my life.&#8221; \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#EuroBasket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MakeYourMark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MakeYourMark<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vaktRBOVw5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vaktRBOVw5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1967276585297338743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 14, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It was the sixth time that Greece finished on the podium at the EuroBasket, with two golds, one silver and three bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> forward <a data-player-guid=\"87ff7f1b-e52a-b236-308c-878d12df8446\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4066336\/lauri-markkanen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauri Markkanen<\/a> had 19 points and 10 rebounds for Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Greece, which never trailed and led by 17 at one point, had an 11-point lead with less than two minutes remaining, but Finland rallied.<\/p>\n<p>Elias Valtonen had a chance to tie the game with three free throws with five seconds left but missed the third. Antetokounmpo eventually controlled the rebound for Greece and sealed the game with a pair of free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Greece was routed by Turkey in the semifinals, with Germany defeating Finland. Germany edged out Turkey later Sunday in the gold medal game.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGA, Latvia &#8212; Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 30 points and grabbed 17 rebounds, leading Greece to a 92-89 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-143822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143822","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=143822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}