Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 brought up Giannis Antetokounmpo’s recent involvement in trade rumors after an altercation at the end of the Milwaukee Bucks’ 112-103 win over the Bulls on Saturday. <\/p>\n
“I’m assuming Giannis was mad about that report that came out the Bulls didn’t want to trade for him,” Vu\u010devi\u0107 told reporters after the game.<\/p>\n
While the Bucks led 110-103 with time expiring in the fourth quarter, Antetokounmpo threw down a windmill dunk in transition instead of choosing to run out the clock. Vu\u010devi\u0107 was among the Bulls players that took exception to the slam, which sparked a scuffle between both teams. <\/p>\n
Antetokounmpo later explained that Milwaukee’s status as the No. 11 seed in the Eastern Conference standings with a 13-19 record factored into his decision to dunk the ball. <\/p>\n
The two-time MVP also posted an image of the windmill flush on social media. <\/p>\n
Antetokounmpo’s long-term future has generated buzz throughout the start of the 2025-26 season, as ESPN’s\u00a0Shams Charania<\/a>\u00a0reported Dec. 3 that the forward and his agent “started conversations” with the Bucks about “whether his best fit is staying or elsewhere.”<\/p>\n Lou Canellis<\/a> of Fox 32 Chicago later reported that the Bulls were approached by Antetokounmpo and his representatives regarding a potential deal, but Chicago wasn’t interested (h\/t BasketNews<\/a>). <\/p>\n The Bulls are among the teams that the Bucks are chasing in the East standings, as they fell to 15-16 with Saturday’s defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls center Nikola Vu\u010devi\u0107 brought up Giannis Antetokounmpo’s recent involvement in trade rumors after an altercation at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-372802","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\/372802","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=372802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}