{"id":375682,"date":"2025-12-28T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375682\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T08:57:33","slug":"australian-nba-star-josh-giddey-caught-up-in-scuffle-after-milwaukee-bucks-defeat-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/375682\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian NBA star Josh Giddey caught up in scuffle after Milwaukee Bucks defeat Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Australian NBA star Josh Giddey has been thrust into the middle of an ugly NBA scuffle after Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo broke an unspoken cardinal rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The \u2018Greek Freak\u2019 was playing his first game back from a calf injury that forced him to ride the pine for eight matches and dropped 29 points in 25 minutes as his side claimed victory 112-103.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">However, it was his final act of the night that boiled blood in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3mk41m-StyledText eze0guv9\">Sign up to The Nightly&#8217;s newsletters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1r9pdr5-StyledSubText eze0guv8\">Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>By continuing you agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/subscription-terms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sevenwestmedia.com.au\/privacy-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Instead of dribbling out the clock with his side well in front, Antetokounmpo, a nine-time NBA all-star and champion, chose to give Bucks fans an exclamation point, storming down the court and slamming home a windmill dunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Giddey took the ball from the in-bounds and hurled a half-court heave as time expired before scenes turned ugly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Bulls veteran Nikola Vucevic took exception to the star\u2019s dunk, getting in Antetokounmpo\u2019s face before a mass of players and staff converged on the pair at centre court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Giddey was pictured right at the front of the queue as Vucevic and Antetokounmpo were separated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Despite there being an \u201cunwritten\u201d rule about not stat padding during the final moments of decided games, many past players and analysts spoke out in support of the Greek\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cYou can\u2019t be mad at Giannis,\u201d one of the TV commentators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cThere\u2019s an unspoken rule you don\u2019t do that, but as soon as the Bulls saw he was starting to dribble towards the basket, they should\u2019ve went and fouled him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">ESPN analyst Bobby Marks posted on X: \u201cEnough with these \u2018unwritten rules\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f9e58d3c2237c4a3eb6edcfc4efaa62921fe7b83.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Chicago Bulls guard Josh Giddey. Credit: Jordan Godfree\/Jordan Godfree-Imagn Images\/Sipa<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cIt\u2019s amazing when a player(s) gets their feelings hurt on plays like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Antetokounmpo stirred the pot further after play, taking to X himself to post an epic photo of the dunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">\u201cI ain\u2019t no painter but you get the picture 100,\u201d the caption read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Giddey had 13 points, nine assists and seven rebounds as the defeat leaves Chicago ninth in the Eastern Conference with a 15-16 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9czhig-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Sunday\u2019s loss also snapped a five-game winning streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian NBA star Josh Giddey has been thrust into the middle of an ugly NBA scuffle after Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,588],"class_list":["post-375682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375682","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=375682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}