{"id":293587,"date":"2025-11-18T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293587\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:10:13","slug":"nba-news-2025-giannis-antetokounmpo-groin-injury-milwaukee-bucks-vs-cleveland-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293587\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA news 2025 | Giannis Antetokounmpo groin injury; Milwaukee Bucks vs Cleveland Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> could be sidelined for a while after he left the second quarter of Tuesday’s (AEDT) game against the Cleveland Cavaliers due to a left groin strain.<\/p>\n

Coach Doc Rivers didn’t have any further update on Antetokounmpo after the Bucks 118-106 loss, and said the next step would be imaging on his left groin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won\u2019t know anything until tomorrow. It didn\u2019t look great, I can tell you that,\u201d Rivers said.<\/p>\n

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Antetokounmpo had 14 points, five rebounds and four assists in 13 minutes. He immediately went to the locker room with 3:03 remaining in the second quarter after committing a foul and did not return.<\/p>\n

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Giannis Antetokounmpo clutches at his left groin. \u00a0X<\/p>\n

Rivers said he thinks the injury occurred before that point in the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe grabbed his groin, I think in the first quarter, and I asked him right away. He said it was fine. Then I think he grabbed it again and said it was fine. And then on the third time, you know, that\u2019s when it happened. But I think it happened before, in my opinion,” Rivers said.<\/p>\n

The 14-year veteran leads the Eastern Conference and is fourth in the league in scoring at 31.2 points per game. He was listed as probable on the injury report before Tuesday’s game due to left knee patellar tendinopathy.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee started the season 4-1, but has dropped six of 10. It went 1-3 during its latest stretch of four games in six days.<\/p>\n

The Bucks have a couple days off before their next game on Thursday against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’ve got some work to do,\u201d Rivers said. \u201cThere\u2019s always a silver lining. I don\u2019t know what it is. It doesn’t look good right now. But we\u2019re going to either find somebody or find something to run that will pay dividends later, and that\u2019s the situation we\u2019re about to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo could be sidelined for a while after he left the second quarter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293587","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=293587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}