Former Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo held his first news conference since being traded to the Heat Thursday afternoon in Miami.<\/p>\n
Giannis wants to win at least one more NBA title. He won a championship with the Bucks in 2021. Now, he hopes he can claim a title with the Heat.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, accomplished a lot of things in my career, but one of my goals is to win another championship,” said Giannis in his introductory news conference to the Miami media. “And I really want to do it. At times, whenever I put my mind into something, I usually accomplish it.”<\/p>\n
Even in a new setting, the two-time NBA MVP took time to acknowledge Bucks fans and his 13 years in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
“The reason that I really changed my number is because I feel like 34 holds so much weight and has so much history,” Giannis said. \u00a0“Out \u00a0of respect to the organization that drafted me and I played for 13 years, I decided to leave that number there and try to start a new chapter. Hopefully I can leave my mark here in Miami and make #7 as legendary as number 34. But it’s almost like kind of having a closure for me.”<\/p>\n
Also introduced in Miami on Thursday was longtime Bucks fan favorite, Bobby Portis. He was sent to the Heat in the Giannis deal.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, the conversations I have with Giannis has always been about winning,” said Portis. “Where can we go to win? How can we impact winning? How can we get another chip? I want to play in June again. I want to play in high pressure games, high pressure moments.”<\/p>\n
Giannis will be trying to bring the Heat a title, following in the footsteps of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.<\/p>\n
“We are going to be good,” said Antetokounmpo. “I always speak things into existence. It’s going to happen. But, simultaneously, I have to be able to leave my mark within this community. And I think great players in the past did the same. And I’m just going to follow their lead.”<\/p>\n
Giannis and Bobby Portis will return to Milwaukee at least once next season. But they will be playing for the Heat, against the Bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo held his first news conference since being traded to the Heat Thursday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1238,274,140684,123,125,124,115,110,278,13810],"class_list":["post-342869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-dennis-krause","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342869","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=342869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}