Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo has joined Miami Heat from the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n
The deal sees Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis move to Miami, with Tyler Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Kasparas Jakucionis heading in the other direction.<\/p>\n
Having been drafted by the Bucks in 2013, Antetokounmpo went on to win the NBA championship once in 2021.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old last season criticised his side’s management for not clearing him to play after suffering a left knee hyperextension.<\/p>\n
With his future uncertain, the Boston Celtics had also been linked with the Greek star.<\/p>\n
Heat president Pat Riley said it is “one of the great trades” in the history of the franchise, who have won three NBA titles, in 2006, 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n
Speaking in April after the Bucks failed to reach the play-offs, Antetokounmpo said: “I feel like sometimes people just don’t listen.<\/p>\n
“They listen to the sources. The main source is me. It is what it is.”<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the Philadelphia 76ers confirmed the acquisition of Jaylen Brown from Eastern Conference rivals the Boston Celtics, as well as the signing of free-agent guard Anfernee Simons.<\/p>\n
The 76ers traded for Brown in exchange for veteran forward Paul George, two first-round picks and two second-round picks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo has joined Miami Heat from the Milwaukee Bucks. The deal sees…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-785010","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\/785010","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=785010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}