{"id":475883,"date":"2026-02-12T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475883\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:22:07","slug":"deaaron-fox-replaces-giannis-antetokounmpo-in-nba-all-star-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/475883\/","title":{"rendered":"De’Aaron Fox replaces Giannis Antetokounmpo in NBA All-Star Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> won’t be playing in the All-Star Game as he recovers from a calf strain, but the two-time MVP will still be making the trip to California for this weekend’s festivities.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo hasn’t played since injuring his right calf in a Jan. 23 loss to the Denver Nuggets<\/a>. The Bucks officially announced Thursday that Antetokounmpo won’t play in the All-Star Game on Sunday at Inglewood, California.<\/p>\n

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San Antonio Spurs<\/a> guard De’Aaron Fox<\/a> was selected to the All-Star Game as an injury replacement for Antetokounmpo. Fox will play for the USA Stripes team. Miami’s Norman Powell<\/a>, who has ties to Jamaica, will move over from the USA Stripes team to fill Antetokounmpo’s spot on the Team World roster.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo will still go forward with his plans to help coach in the All-Star Celebrity Game on Friday. The Bucks also said he will cheer on his Team World teammates on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo is coaching one of the All-Star Celebrity Game teams along with his brothers Thanasis and Alex as well as Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts.<\/p>\n

Antetokounmpo had been selected last month as an All-Star Game starter for the 10th consecutive season. The 31-year-old forward is averaging 28 points, 10 rebounds and 5.6 assists in 30 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo won’t be playing in the All-Star Game as he recovers from a calf strain,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-475883","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\/475883","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=475883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}