{"id":210214,"date":"2025-10-13T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:23:08","slug":"report-bucks-sign-alex-antetokounmpo-joins-brothers-giannis-and-thanasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210214\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Bucks sign Alex Antetokounmpo, joins brothers Giannis and Thanasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a family affair in Milwaukee. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"milwaukee-bucks\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> have signed forward Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way NBA contract, uniting him with brothers Giannis and Thanasis, ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>With the third Antetokounmpo brother on the roster in Milwaukee, it marks the first time in NBA history that three brothers are on active roster contracts with the same team. <\/p>\n<p>Alex, 24, has yet to suit up for a regular-season NBA game. He has spent the last two seasons overseas, splitting time between Lithuanian club Mazeikiai, Montenegrin club Podgorica, and Greek teams PAOK and Aris.<\/p>\n<p>He last played in North America in the 2023-24 season, playing for the Wisconsin Herd \u2014 the Bucks&#8217; G League affiliate. Over 18 games, he averaged 5.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 0.6 assists while shooting 32.0 per cent from the field in 21.2 minutes a night.<\/p>\n<p>The six-foot-eight, 214-pound forward also played for the Raptors 905 \u2014 the Toronto Raptors&#8217; G League affiliate \u2014 in the 2021-22 season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a family affair in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Bucks have signed forward Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-210214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}