{"id":491770,"date":"2025-03-29T08:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491770"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:02:58","slug":"giannis-appreciates-lebrons-compliments-but-stays-humble","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-appreciates-lebrons-compliments-but-stays-humble\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis appreciates LeBron\u2019s compliments but stays humble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo reveals that it makes him happy that LeBron James complimented him by sharing that the Milwaukee Bucks leader could have scored 250 points in a match if he had been part of the league in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>But the Greek superstar claimed it isn&#8217;t really a fair comparison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate what LeBron said, but you can\u2019t compare different eras,\u201d the Bucks superstar revealed after his team\u2019s 116-107 defeat against the NY Knicks. \u201cIt is not fair. If I competed during that time, how everybody practiced and what everybody&#8217;s style was, but now it\u2019s a different time and things have evolved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe game of basketball from that period has nothing to do with the basketball that we are playing today,\u201d Giannis added. \u201cMy wish is that I can score 250 points in 2025, but it is not a realistic thing, and that\u2019s the same way with comparing nowadays and the past. I believe that I would play like everybody else in the NBA during the \u201870s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really appreciate that LeBron James complimented me. It is always great to hear positive things about yourself from 1 of the best basketballers in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giannis on LeBron saying he&#39;d score 250 points in a 1970s game:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s wrong take\u2026probably more 275 \ud83d\ude06 I&#39;m joking. Great compliment. But I don&#39;t like comparing eras. It&#39;s not fair. If I played in the 70s, how everybody practiced &amp; played, we&#39;d play same way\u2026The game evolves\u2026&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p3rtCK38nj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/p3rtCK38nj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA_NewYork\/status\/1905838930542387456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 29, 2025<\/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>Giannis Antetokounmpo reveals that it makes him happy that LeBron James complimented him by sharing that the Milwaukee Bucks leader could have scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":491771,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16728,16972,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17843,17644,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Antetokounmpo said that eras can\u2019t be compared.","video":["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\/491770"}],"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=491770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491772,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491770\/revisions\/491772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491770"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491770"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}