{"id":378170,"date":"2026-08-22T07:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378170\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T07:02:23","slug":"vin-baker-to-join-giannis-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/378170\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Baker to join Giannis in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Per Chris Haynes, former Bucks assistant Vin Baker is joining Erik Spoelstra\u2019s staff in Miami, where he will reunite with Giannis. Baker spent eight seasons with the Bucks and had an extremely close relationship with the two-time MVP, so it makes sense that the Heat would want to bring in a familiar face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThere won\u2019t be any more Antetokounmpo brothers in Miami,\u201d Shelburne said. \u201cThat whole \u2018we have Kostas and Thanasis on the team,\u2019 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to continue, from what I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In any event, Baker and Antetokounmpo grew extremely close not just on the court, but off it. For example, Baker confided in Giannis about his journey overcoming alcohol addiction, which began with him taking a job at Starbucks after his playing career was over to reclaim a sense of routine and discipline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">As Deolu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brewhoop.com\/bucks-news\/71754\/milwaukee-taylor-jenkins-coaching-staff-nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote about<\/a> earlier this month, the Bucks\u2019 coaching staff is now finalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Per Chris Haynes, former Bucks assistant Vin Baker is joining Erik Spoelstra\u2019s staff in Miami, where he will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[136767,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-378170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-bucks-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378170","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=378170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}