{"id":251138,"date":"2025-10-30T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251138\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:44:11","slug":"bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-ruled-out-against-warriors-due-to-knee-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251138\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks&#8217; Giannis Antetokounmpo ruled out against Warriors due to knee soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<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=\"noopener nofollow\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> will be without their franchise player when they host the Golden State Warriors on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time MVP has had a remarkable start over the first four games of the schedule, averaging 36.3 points, 14 rebounds and 7 assists, all of which would be career highs over a full season. <\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, 30, is in his 13th NBA season and has spent his entire career in Milwaukee. Yet there was speculation about Antetokounmpo&#8217;s future with the Bucks in the off-season due to their lack of recent playoff success. <\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee was eliminated in five games in its first-round playoff series against the Indiana Pacers last season, marking its third straight first-round playoff exit.<\/p>\n<p>However, Antetokounmpo maintained his usual production, averaging 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists over 67 games. He finished second in scoring during 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo has two years left on his three-year, $186 million contract extension signed in October 2023. The deal includes a player option for the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks will be without their franchise player when they host the Golden State Warriors on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-251138","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\/251138","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=251138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}