{"id":396942,"date":"2023-02-03T03:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T08:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=396942"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:22:28","slug":"antetokounmpo-scores-54-as-bucks-dispatch-clippers","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/antetokounmpo-scores-54-as-bucks-dispatch-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Antetokounmpo scores 54 as Bucks dispatch Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s 54 points &#8212; 20 in the fourth quarter, and 19 rebounds, the Milwaukee Bucks overcame a 21-point deficit and defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 106-105 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Comeback complete. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ChrCsFfQr0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ChrCsFfQr0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Milwaukee Bucks (@Bucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bucks\/status\/1621384879786102785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo, who now has reached the half-century mark in six career regular-season games, joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players in Bucks history to have at least three 50-point games in a season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great compliment to be up there with Kareem,\u201d Antetokounmpo said. \u201cMan, I never thought I was going to score 50 in the NBA when I got drafted. It\u2019s an insane, crazy journey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Antetokounmpo celebrated his most famous 50-point performance by ordering 50 chicken nuggets at a Chick-fil-A drive-through the next day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow I think I\u2019m going to go to Culver\u2019s,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ll go get 50 cheeseburgers and try to eat as many as I can. The rest, I\u2019ll have my son eat them or I give them to my dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Greek star has scored at least 50 points in three of his last 11 games. He had a career-high 55 on Jan. 3 in a 123-113 victory over Washington and scored 50 in only 30 minutes Sunday in a 135-110 triumph over New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard finished with 17 points, 11 rebounds, and five assists for the Clippers in the losing effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Clippers visit the New York Knicks while the Bucks host Miami Heat on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by Giannis Antetokounmpo\u2019s 54 points &#8212; 20 in the fourth quarter, and 19 rebounds, the Milwaukee Bucks overcame a 21-point deficit and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":396943,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,17188,16726],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Greek star joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players in Bucks history to have at least three 50-point games in a season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/396942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396942"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=396942"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=396942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}