{"id":515812,"date":"2026-03-03T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515812\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:47:08","slug":"nba-giannis-antetokounmpo-rusty-on-comeback-as-celtics-beat-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/515812\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: Giannis Antetokounmpo rusty on comeback as Celtics beat Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said he &#8220;did not play well&#8221; on his return from injury but the two-time NBA MVP was just &#8220;happy&#8221; to be back on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old made his comeback after missing six weeks of action with a calf strain in a 108-81 defeat against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He put up 19 points, 11 rebounds and two assists in 25 minutes in a defeat that left the 2021 champion Bucks 11th in the Eastern Conference with a 26-34 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo said &#8220;we&#8217;ve got 24 games left &#8211; it&#8217;s 24 fights&#8221; when asked about the Bucks&#8217; battle to reach the post-season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Obviously I did not play well, but at the end of the day, I&#8217;m just happy that I&#8217;m out there being able to help my team-mates in any way that I can and just do what I love, which is play basketball,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said he &#8220;did not play well&#8221; on his return from injury but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-515812","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\/515812","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=515812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}