{"id":413306,"date":"2026-09-29T00:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413306\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:44:08","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-says-miami-iguanas-could-force-him-to-move-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413306\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo says Miami iguanas could force him to move out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Giannis Antetokounmpo is ready to face the NBA\u2019s biggest stars with the Miami Heat, but one Florida opponent already has him considering a move.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">After an iguana appeared beside the pool at his new home, the two-time MVP hid behind a door with his children and refused to go outside. Giannis later admitted that he had been told Miami\u2019s iguanas were cute, but quickly discovered he strongly disagreed.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">\u201cIf the iguanas keep on coming, I\u2019ll probably move,\u201d Giannis said at Heat Media Day. He even suggested trading his house for an apartment with no pool or grass. The Greek Freak may be almost impossible to intimidate on a basketball court, but Miami\u2019s reptiles have already found his weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo is ready to face the NBA\u2019s biggest stars with the Miami Heat, but one Florida opponent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-413306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413306","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=413306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}