{"id":429939,"date":"2026-01-24T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429939\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:21:08","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-milwaukee-bucks-star-expects-to-miss-up-to-six-weeks-with-calf-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429939\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo: Milwaukee Bucks star expects to miss up to six weeks with calf issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo expects to be out for about four to six weeks with a calf injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Antetokounmpo played 32 minutes of his side&#8217;s 102-100 defeat by the Denver Nuggets on Friday before coming off in the final minute of the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Probably the next steps will be, go to [an] MRI tomorrow,&#8221; said the 31-year-old, who produced 22 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists against the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;After the MRI, they&#8217;ll tell me, probably, I popped something in my calf, in my soleus, something. They&#8217;ll probably give me a protocol of four to six weeks that I&#8217;ll be out. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is from my experience being around the NBA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;After that, I&#8217;m going to work my butt off to come back. That will probably be the end of February, beginning of March.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo expects to be out for about four to six weeks with a calf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-429939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429939","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=429939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}