{"id":326842,"date":"2025-12-04T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:04:07","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-injured-as-milwaukee-bucks-beat-detroit-pistons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/326842\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo injured as Milwaukee Bucks beat Detroit Pistons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Detroit Pistons 113-109 despite losing the NBA&#8217;s two-time Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo to injury early in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo, 30, fell to the floor in the third minute and had to be helped off court by his team-mates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bucks trailed by 18 points in the first quarter, but fought back at Milwaukee&#8217;s Fiserv Forum to claim just their second win in 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin Porter Jr registered 26 points for the Bucks, with Ryan Rollins adding 22 and AJ Green scoring 11 of his 19 in the fourth quarter to fuel the comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a hell of a win,&#8221; Bucks head coach Doc Rivers said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We get down early, miss wide open, great shots, but we just couldn&#8217;t get anything to fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And Giannis gets hurt&#8230; to fight back, it just shows a lot of stuff about this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Detroit Pistons 113-109 despite losing the NBA&#8217;s two-time Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-326842","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\/326842","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=326842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}