{"id":538969,"date":"2026-03-15T23:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:45:12","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-scores-31-points-to-lead-the-milwaukee-bucks-over-the-indiana-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/538969\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo scores 31 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks over the Indiana Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/739957\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> scored 31 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/indiana-pacers\/11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/indiana-pacers\/11\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> 134-123 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Antetokounmpo also had eight assists while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/bobby-portis\/750703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/bobby-portis\/750703\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Portis<\/a> scored 29 points and added 10 rebounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ryan-rollins\/1232221\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ryan-rollins\/1232221\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Rollins<\/a> shot 8 for 12, including 3 for 5 from beyond the 3-point line, to finish with 20 points, seven assists and three steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-nesmith\/1134264\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/aaron-nesmith\/1134264\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Nesmith<\/a> led the Pacers with 32 points. Indiana also got 16 points and two blocks from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jay-huff\/942843\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/jay-huff\/942843\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Huff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bucks trailed 65-62 at halftime but turned a six-point fourth-quarter lead into an 18-point advantage with a 15-3 run to make it 119-101 with 8:45 left in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pacers turned the ball over 18 times, nine more times than the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Bucks will host the Cavaliers on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Pacers travel to meet the Knicks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 31 points and pulled down 14 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-538969","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\/538969","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=538969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}