{"id":225077,"date":"2025-10-14T22:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:45:07","slug":"alex-antetokounmpo-inks-deal-with-bucks-joins-brothers-giannis-and-thanasis-in-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/225077\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Antetokounmpo inks deal with Bucks, joins brothers Giannis and Thanasis in Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (WLUK) &#8212; The Antetokounmpo brothers are making NBA history with the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported Monday the team is signing Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way deal &#8212; meaning he&#8217;ll join two of his older brothers, Giannis and Thanasis, in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time ever that three brothers are on active roster NBA contracts with the same team.<\/p>\n<p>Alex, 24, went undrafted in 2021. He spent some time in the G League &#8212; including with the Wisconsin Herd, the Bucks&#8217; affiliate in Oshkosh, from 2022-24 &#8212; but has been playing in Europe since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanasis, 33, played for Milwaukee from 2019-24. He sat out last season to recover from a torn Achilles tendon, but was <a href=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/sports\/bucks-and-nba\/thanasis-antetokounmpo-returns-to-bucks-after-missing-last-season-with-achilles-tendon-inj\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/sports\/bucks-and-nba\/thanasis-antetokounmpo-returns-to-bucks-after-missing-last-season-with-achilles-tendon-inj\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">re-signed by the Bucks this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giannis, 30, <a href=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/sports\/bucks-and-nba\/giannis-antetokounmpo-locked-in-with-bucks-but-says-theres-a-chance-he-could-change-his-mind-milwaukee-teammates-espn-new-york-knicks-championship-playoffs-free-agency-myles-turner#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/sports\/bucks-and-nba\/giannis-antetokounmpo-locked-in-with-bucks-but-says-theres-a-chance-he-could-change-his-mind-milwaukee-teammates-espn-new-york-knicks-championship-playoffs-free-agency-myles-turner#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has spent his entire 12-year NBA career in Milwaukee<\/a>, becoming one of the league&#8217;s most decorated players of all time. He and Thanasis were leaders on the Bucks&#8217; championship-winning team in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As for the other two Antetokounmpo brothers:<\/p>\n<p>Kostas, 27, spent three seasons in the NBA and earned a title with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2020. He has spent the last few seasons in Europe. Francis, 36, was a professional soccer player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (WLUK) &#8212; The Antetokounmpo brothers are making NBA history with the Milwaukee Bucks. ESPN reported Monday the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[29722,112230,6251,4133,18426,8263,355,99,126299],"class_list":{"0":"post-225077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alex","9":"tag-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-contract","12":"tag-giannis","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-thanasis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}