{"id":481994,"date":"2024-04-16T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481994"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:27:28","slug":"bucks-preparing-to-be-without-2-time-mvp-antetokounmpo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bucks-preparing-to-be-without-2-time-mvp-antetokounmpo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks preparing to be without 2-time MVP Antetokounmpo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/milwaukee-bucks\/\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> are preparing to be without superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/giannis-antetokounmpo\/\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a><\/a><\/a> for the beginning of their Eastern Conference 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round matchup vs. the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/indiana-pacers\/\">Indiana Pacers<\/a>, but believe that the 2-time MVP will be ready to help his team later in the series.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek basketballer has been undergoing treatment on the calf.<\/p>\n<p>The 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-seeded Milwaukee begins the matchup vs. the 6th-seeded Indiana at the end of the weekend at home. Indiana defeated Milwaukee in 4 of 5 regular-campaign matches.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis didn\u2019t play in the final 3 regular-campaign matches of the Bucks after sustaining his injury vs. the Celtics 7 days ago. He finished the regular campaign averaging over 30 points on a career-best 61% shooting with almost 12 boards and 7 assists per match. Antetokounmpo is the 1<sup>st<\/sup> basketballer in National Basketball Association history to average 30 points per match with his percent of shooting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giannis Antetokounmpo 2023-24:<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f 30.4 PPG<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f 11.5 RPG<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f 6.5 APG<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f 1.2 SPG<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f 1.1 BPG<br \/>\u25aa\ufe0f 61.1% FG \u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Highest FG% in a 25+ PPG season<br \/>\u2014 Only 30+ PPG Season ever on 60+ FG% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvySw630lf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IvySw630lf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hoop Muse (@HoopMuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoopMuse\/status\/1780257038355906861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks are preparing to be without superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo for the beginning of their Eastern Conference 1st-round matchup vs. the Indiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481995,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,16726,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[17843,17841,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Milwaukee is preparing to play without Giannis.","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\/481994"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481996,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481994\/revisions\/481996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481994"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481994"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}