Antetokounmpo told The Athletic<\/a>. \u201cIt bothers me \u2014 which it should not be bothering me \u2014 because I don\u2019t like to quit. I got hurt in the first quarter of the game, the last game I played. And then in the fourth quarter, I got hurt again.<\/p>\n\u201cAny other player on this planet would have \u2014 in my position, going through the season that he\u2019s going through, and all these injuries coming back, win, lose, win, lose, inconsistent play, blah, blah \u2014 would have said, \u2018Oh yeah, I\u2019m just gonna protect my calf. You don\u2019t know what tomorrow holds. Let\u2019s just make a business decision here.\u2019 That\u2019s not me though.\u201d<\/p>\n
Antetokounmpo moved gingerly after the first quarter that night. With less than a minute remaining, Antetokounmpo heard his right soleus pop, and he was forced to miss the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
“People, my agent, my physio (physiotherapist), people that love me, were like, \u2018What the f\u2014 are you doing?\u2019 That\u2019s not me,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cMy wife texted me after the game, \u2018Why didn\u2019t you leave the game?\u2019 I said that\u2019s not what I do. I don\u2019t quit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will go down swinging. It doesn\u2019t matter, good or bad. You know why? I have trusted God until this point, and God always had a plan for me. There\u2019s no reason for me not to trust him. He always has a platform, and this is how he built me. Some people say it\u2019s the flaw; I call it strength. I\u2019ve been, until this point in my career, having that mentality. So, you think I\u2019m gonna change now? Hell no. Hell no, I don\u2019t quit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there were any doubts about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s commitment, he believes his performance against the Denver Nuggets on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-454390","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\/454390","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=454390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}