{"id":287762,"date":"2025-11-12T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:51:12","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpo-out-for-wednesdays-game-vs-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/287762\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo out for Wednesday&#8217;s game vs. Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1906867\" class=\"wp-image-1906867 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/giannis2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1906867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is averaging NBA-leading 33.4 points per game this season.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo won\u2019t play for the Milwaukee Bucks in Wednesday night\u2019s game against the Charlotte Hornets as he deals with a knee issue.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks announced Wednesday that the two-time league MVP wouldn\u2019t be available because of left knee patellar tendinopathy.<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte is playing without LaMelo Ball (right ankle impingement) and Brandon Miller (left shoulder subluxation).<\/p>\n<p>This is the Bucks\u2019 third game in a stretch of four nights. Antetokounmpo scored 15 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter as the Bucks rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat Dallas 116-114 on Monday night. Milwaukee also has games on back-to-back nights later this week, hosting Charlotte on Friday and the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo has an NBA-leading 33.4 points per game and ranks sixth in rebounding with 11.9 per game. He averages 6.2 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Bucks also won\u2019t have Taurean Prince or Kevin Porter Jr. available for Wednesday\u2019s game.\u00a0Prince\u00a0is out indefinitely with a herniated disk in his neck.\u00a0Porter\u00a0hasn\u2019t played since spraining his left ankle in Milwaukee\u2019s season opener, and he also recently had meniscus surgery on his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is averaging NBA-leading 33.4 points per game this season. CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Giannis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[151385,355,99],"class_list":["post-287762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo-out","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287762","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=287762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}