The Athletic’s Eric Nehm<\/a>. \u201cSo for somebody to come and tell me to not play or not to compete, it\u2019s like a slap in my face. So, I don\u2019t know where the relationship goes from there.<\/p>\n“I\u2019ve never seen a case of a player saying, my calibre of player, that\u2019s like \u2014 I\u2019m saying it publicly \u2014 I want to f\u2013-ing play. You know what I\u2019m saying? I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve seen this. So, if there needs to be an investigation, great. There should be. I don\u2019t know. There should be. Until we figure something out.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bucks have been eliminated from playoff contention and may be holding Antetokounmpo to get a higher selection in the draft, although their pick is tied up in a pick-swap with the Falcons and Pelicans.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I understand the circumstances? Yes,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to make the playoffs \u2026 For some people\u2019s eyes, it\u2019s not worth it for me to be out there. But for me, it\u2019s something that goes against my nature, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the most recent squabble between Antetokounmpo and the Bucks; he was nearly traded earlier this season and then refused to be shut down for the remainder of the year. <\/p>\n
Antetokounmpo put it simply: he and the organization are \u201cdefinitely, definitely not on the same page.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The league interviewed Antetokounmpo’s side, the Bucks and team doctors, Charania adds. All sides have reportedly told the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-580809","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\/580809","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=580809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}