{"id":261781,"date":"2025-10-31T00:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:19:06","slug":"antetokounmpo-ruled-out-for-bucks-thursday-night-game-against-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261781\/","title":{"rendered":"Antetokounmpo ruled out for Bucks\u2019 Thursday night game against Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo is missing his first game of the season Thursday night as the Milwaukee Bucks face\u2026<\/p>\n<p>MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo is missing his first game of the season Thursday night as the Milwaukee Bucks face the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time MVP had been listed as probable in the Bucks\u2019 afternoon injury report because of left knee soreness, but the team announced about an hour before the opening tip that he wouldn\u2019t be available.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, 30, has averaged 36.3 points, 14 rebounds and 7.0 assists through the Bucks\u2019 first four games of the season. He entered Thursday night\u2019s action ranked second in the league in scoring (behind Philadelphia\u2019s Tyrese Maxey) and rebounding (behind Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic).<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo has scored at least 30 points while shooting at least 70% from the floor in each of his last three games. He\u2019s one of only six players in NBA history to accomplish both those statistical benchmarks in three straight games.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo is missing his first game of the season Thursday night as the Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-261781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261781","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=261781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}