11:33am: The Bucks are waiving Jamaree Bouyea to make room for the younger Antetokounmpo on their two-way roster, Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype tweets.
11:18am: The Bucks are signing Alex Antetokounmpo to a two-way deal, ESPN’s Shams Charania tweets.
He joins older brothers Giannis and Thanasis, who are both on standard contracts. This will mark the first time in NBA history that three brothers are on active roster contracts with the same team, Charania adds.
Milwaukee must waive one of its other two-way players to officially add Alex Antetokounmpo.
The younger brother has mainly spent his pro career in the G League. He played for Raptors 905 in 2021/22 and the Bucks’ affiliate, the Wisconsin Herd, in 2022/24 after signing camps deals with the NBA teams and then getting waived during training camp.
He also had stints in Lithuania, Montenegro and Greece. He requested his release from PAOK in the Greece Basketball League in August. He then joined Aris Thessaloniki, another club in Greece, but only appeared in two games with that team. A report surfaced last week that he was headed to the U.S. to play in the G League again.
The addition of Alex can certainly be construed as another way of keeping his superstar brother happy in Milwaukee. There have been persistent rumors regarding Giannis’ future, including a report last week that the Knicks had preliminary discussions this summer with the Bucks regarding a blockbuster trade.
What’s Kostas up to?
Also I’m assuming Bouyea gets waived
Lavar just filed to change his last name to Antetokounball.
Sell the stadium naming rights to poppa $1 ;)
No one talks about the kid (I guess it’s Bouyea) whose NBA dream just got crushed because a superstar insisted the team hire his completely un-NBA-talented brother. This is repeated over and over in the League, usually for buddies not family members. It sucks.
I’m sure if the Bucks thought Bouyea was going to develop into a contributor, they would have kept him.
This nepotism process is not exclusive to the NBA and I envy your sheltered life if you haven’t observed or encountered this elsewhere in your experience. It’s quite literally how the world works.
Ask yourself if you were a Bucks fan faced with the onslaught of Giannis rumors, would you be happy or sad with this transaction? Is the potential of keeping Giannis around better for the Bucks franchise than the potential of Bouyea?
World has always worked this way lol.
Not my money. I don’t care.
Don’t know anything about him except he has good size. Wish him luck.
Bouyea is actually 2 years older than Alex Antetokounmpo.
And we don’t know if Giannis had anything to do with this, or were Milwaukee acting on their own accord. Didn’t Miami draft Shabazz Napier all those years ago because they wanted to keep LeBron and he tweeted he liked the player or something?
And Druuu is right, this happens all the time everywhere in life.
He did and it’s why he won’t win another championship. Don’t give me that you’re looking out for your family crap. If you’re taking spots away from deserving players but your family, that’s an nepotism. We got a call of Spade of spade and we say the same thing about LeBron and now giannis is doing the same thing. The way he is acting is not like a winner and he is destroying the bucks. To be honest, the best thing the bucks can do is move off a giannis now so they can get as much as back as they can. They already destroy this team when they traded for Dame, they have no Future and are turning into the Lakers as we speak. Only different the Lakers are in LA And we were able to get Luka (courtesy of the NBA) That type of deal won’t happen till Milwaukee. All in all, giannis’s an all-time player top 20 of all time but only won one championship for the City. Kareem did the same thing so I don’t understand why it’s so hard to just move on from him or let him know that the team will not be able to contend but continue to trading assets at assets and signing brother is just a bad way to go
Its a 2way contract in the G-league …..
Get a grip. I doubt you care or know anything about the 13. 14, 15 player on ANY roster in NBA.
What are you talking about “deserving players”? Neither you nor I knew who this guy Bouyea was before we read this article. xD
You think Milwaukee are passing on world-beaters who can change the fortunes of the team to keep Giannis’ brothers in the squad? These are two-way players we are talking about here.
I never said anything about LeBron and his kid. I think it’s a non-story anyway. 2024 draft was so poor and shallow in talent that Bronny, who actually spent all his life working on his basketball skills, is not the worst out of 60 who got drafted.
He played 181 total NBA minutes, so he had absolutely no impact on LAL and their season; it’s not like he dragged them down or something.
And LeBron took 2 million less than he could on his extension in 2024, essentially making it a freebie for LAL to sign Bronny. A guy could be waived like anyone else on a rookie deal and that’ll be the end of it.
People spend a million times more effort trying to make points about Bronny than his actual impact merits.
Giannis never winning another title is a very safe bet. Because the chances of winning one are very slim when 30 teams are contending. It is a very very safe bet to say “Giannis is never winning a title again” or “Steph is never winning a title again” or “KD is never winning one again” or “Brunson is never winning one” etc. Probabilities are not in favour of any of those guys.
You’re not making a spectacular point by saying that.
Milwaukee can’t move on from Giannis because they don’t own their own picks until 2031. If they trade him, they will not be able to pick high in the lottery.
“Giannis, we will nepotize this entire organization if it means you don’t leave us, baby.”
Exactly this. More exit rumors? Sign another brother ASAP!
Bouyea is a good player who deserves a roster spot
No he is not. If he was he would be on another team. If you notice, Seth Curry was able to go from Team Team to team and didn’t have to play on his brother’s team. When the only team that wants you is the team, your brother or son or whoever plays for you’re not good enough to play in the league
I hope Giannis realizes how good he has it, no organization that wants to win will continue to sign the family. Don’t care if it is 2way, some teams know how to find contributors on 2 way deals.
The facts about a Giannis trade …….
Facts are —— it helps the Bucks MORE at this point. So get off the Giannis hate bandwagon. Grown men jealous of athletes banking Feria ….
Milwaukee needs Nico Harrison as a GM.