{"id":316548,"date":"2026-06-23T06:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316548\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:19:10","slug":"antetokounmpo-joining-miami-in-blockbuster-nba-trade-after-heat-beat-celtics-to-signature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/316548\/","title":{"rendered":"Antetokounmpo joining Miami in blockbuster NBA trade after Heat beat Celtics to signature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Giannis Antetokounmpo, the two-time NBA MVP, is joining the Miami Heat from the Milwaukee Bucks, multiple US media outlets including ESPN reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Miami won a battle with the Boston Celtics to sign the 31-year-old Greek who won a championship with the Bucks in 2021.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">ESPN reported that Miami will acquire Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis in a deal that sends Tyler Herro, Kel\u2019el Ware, Jaime Jaquez Jnr and Kasparas Jakucionis in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Milwaukee will also receive three first-round picks, a pick swap and a second-round pick, ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The deal draws a line under months of speculation concerning Antetokounmpo\u2019s future in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Greek star had openly vented frustration with Milwaukee\u2019s management for not clearing him to play after suffering a left knee hyperextension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo, the two-time NBA MVP, is joining the Miami Heat from the Milwaukee Bucks, multiple US media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8313,558,14585,740,75883,555,123,125,124,115,482,84092,197,1576,628,1740],"class_list":["post-316548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316548","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=316548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}