{"id":563313,"date":"2026-04-04T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563313\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:51:11","slug":"its-almost-like-you-waved-the-white-flag-and-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563313\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s almost like you waved the white flag and I don\u2019t \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat are you telling me? The next time I\u2019m going to be play basketball is October? Why? I don\u2019t want to do that. I don\u2019t,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cI want to play basketball. I was born to play basketball. \u201cI\u2019ve been here 13 years and I understand the team gets eliminated from the playoffs, be smart. Taking care of your body, being in and out, just to be careful, to prepare for the next season, prepare for the next generation and the young players to get some minutes, go out there \u2014 I get that. But that wasn\u2019t the time that this took place. That\u2019s what bothers me. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7161947\/2026\/04\/03\/giannis-antetokounmpo-injury-update-frustrated-bucks-decision\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.MCcI.epP_E1OZ70yB&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:It\u2019s almost like you waved the white flag and I don\u2019t do that. I am sorry. I don\u2019t. And I never, never will.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;It\u2019s almost like you waved the white flag and I don\u2019t do that. I am sorry. I don\u2019t. And I never, never will.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">It\u2019s almost like you waved the white flag and I don\u2019t do that. I am sorry. I don\u2019t. And I never, never will.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7161947\/2026\/04\/03\/giannis-antetokounmpo-injury-update-frustrated-bucks-decision\/?source=emp_shared_article&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.YVA.MCcI.epP_E1OZ70yB&amp;smid=ta-ios-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Times&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat are you telling me? The next time I\u2019m going to be play basketball is October? Why? I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-563313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563313","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=563313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}