{"id":183985,"date":"2026-03-09T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:45:34","slug":"bucks-rule-out-giannis-antetokounmpo-vs-magic-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183985\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks rule out Giannis Antetokounmpo vs. Magic on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"00985054-c4b3-4247-e825-ddf062d457c3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3032977\/giannis-antetokounmpo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> won&#8217;t play Sunday night against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"74c23102-8c27-c8e6-ec1b-8a8fd4d42554\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/orl\/orlando-magic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> as the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f59bbabc-eedb-9ad2-c5dd-9bcd9f450a2f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/mil\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> continue to work him back gradually from the right calf strain that caused him to miss 15 straight games.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks are playing for a second straight night, which explains the decision to rest Antetokounmpo. The 6-foot-11 forward had 27 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in 27 minutes Saturday as the Bucks snapped a four-game skid with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401810774\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a victory over<\/a> the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo has played three games since returning from the calf injury that knocked him out for five weeks. He has missed time with a right calf strain on two separate occasions this season.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the 30th game Antetokounmpo has missed this season. Never before had he missed more than 21 games in a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, 31, is averaging 27.5 points, 9.9 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks also will be missing second-leading scorer <a data-player-guid=\"7a72e2ce-bd08-714e-0bb8-ac654a7a2774\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4397140\/kevin-porter-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Porter Jr<\/a>. for a third straight game because of swelling in his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE &#8212; Giannis Antetokounmpo won&#8217;t play Sunday night against the Orlando Magic as the Milwaukee Bucks continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-183985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-orlando","9":"tag-orlando-headlines","10":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}