{"id":542928,"date":"2026-03-16T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542928\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:03:08","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-exits-bucks-win-after-awkward-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/542928\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo exits Bucks&#8217; win after awkward landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032977\/giannis-antetokounmpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> left Milwaukee&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-pacers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> on Sunday after landing awkwardly as he completed a dunk late in the third quarter of the Bucks&#8217; 134-123 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo briefly remained in the game and dunked again on Milwaukee&#8217;s next possession. He got fouled the possession after that and attempted a pair of free throws before heading to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t play the rest of the way. Antetokounmpo ended up with 31 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My guess is he hyperextended his knee, but I&#8217;m guessing,&#8221; Bucks coach Doc Rivers said.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo said he wasn&#8217;t planning on getting imaging. The two-time MVP said he believed he could have finished the game but chose to follow the advice of the Bucks&#8217; training staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to go back home, sleep, see how I feel tomorrow, try to lift some weights,&#8221; Antetokounmpo said. &#8220;If I have a little bit of discomfort, then I&#8217;ll go from there. As of now, I&#8217;m not really bothered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Antetokounmpo has missed a career-high 31 games this season. He&#8217;s had two extended absences because of strains in his right calf. He sat out the Bucks&#8217; 122-99 loss at Atlanta on Saturday because of a sprained left ankle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8212; Giannis Antetokounmpo left Milwaukee&#8217;s game against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday after landing awkwardly as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-542928","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\/542928","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=542928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}