Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has been diagnosed with a left knee hyperextension and bone bruise and will be reevaluated in one week, ESPN’s Shams Charania tweets.
Milwaukee ruled out Antetokounmpo approximately 90 minutes before its game against Cleveland on Tuesday. Coach Doc Rivers told reporters during his pregame press conference that Antetokounmpo underwent testing on the knee, Eric Nehm of The Athletic tweets.
“The good news was it was a really good image, so there was no damage,’ Rivers said. “Nothing. It was really just good news. But I don’t know the next part (regarding a timeline).”
The Bucks also ruled out Myles Turner for Tuesday’s game due to a calf injury.
Antetokoumpo suffered his injury on Sunday, late in the third quarter of a 134-123 victory over Indiana, when he came down awkwardly on a dunk following a spin move. The two-time MVP stayed in the game for a little over a minute before exiting the rest of the night.
After the game, Antetokounmpo didn’t anticipate undergoing imaging but obviously that thinking changed over the past two days. The veteran forward has only played in 36 of the Bucks’ games this season, having battled knee, groin, and repeated calf ailments. He’s averaging 27.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists per contest.
The Bucks are barely clinging to hopes of a play-in tournament berth. They’re currently 11th in the East at 28-39, five-and-a-half games behind 10th place Charlotte (34-34).
Antetokounmpo’s latest injury could extinguish all hopes of making the postseason. Following their home game on Tuesday, the Bucks embark on a four-game road swing that begins in Utah on Thursday.
I’m 100% shutting him down if Mil while concurrently seeding the front yard and watering the flowers en lieu of staking the 4 sale sign up in the summer
It’s ( been ) time Mil
Time to tank to keep Giannis in Milwaukee. I’m sure he stays with a top pick. If they win the Lottery it’s definitely rigged.
@mlb
is it really “tanking” if they just suck for real?
Post had nothing to do with tanking
Tanking has become a bigger problems with fans than organizations
Thank god silver is flattening the odds soon as the fans have pushed tanking to ridiculous levels with not only their full on acceptance but their prayers for it to happen
Well said. I completely understand looking on the bright side of losses, but the hostility some fans have to anything but maximum tanking is weird bordering on obsessive. You have fans who are anti-taking, or even just hoping their team wins specific games, getting hate, downvoted into oblivion, etc.
It’s so silly in the end when you realize move down a spot or two doesn’t THAT dramatically change your odds. Of course, I understand why organizations want to maximize their odds regardless but a) you still need to hit on your picks, b) you might get unlucky, c) you can find very good players throughout the 1st round typically.
What you just don’t want to do is be in that awkward middle ground where you’re not completing in the playoffs but aren’t bad enough to have a reasonable shot at a high pick. But we’ve taken implicit acceptance of tanking far beyond that to the point where fans are cheering losses enthusiastically and anything less than that is worth demonizing.
Simply put, you can be for the general tanking approach and NOT be obsessed with it to the point of unhealthy mindset and discourse. Players and coaches should always play to win (ie, not tank the end of games); it’s up to the front office/medical staff to kneecap the roster enough to ensure they aren’t too competitive.
As someone who doesn’t believe in the rigging theory, if that does happen I will 100% jump onboard lol.
One of the reasons i don’t wnat the warriors trading for him. The last thing they need is a older player with injuries.
Tanking for sure
They don’t own their first round pick. It’s a pick swap so they can’t even tank. They should have traded Giannis a year and a half ago held on to him too long. Honestly, he’s really not worth a crazy overhaul that they believe they’re going to get
Agreed buckets
But I think they will still get a bigger price than I’d be willing to pay
29 teams to find 1 sucker
I don’t know they didn’t have their 1st rnd pick but to be honest I was just trolling anyway haha
They really did screw themselves by waiting so long. 2 years ago was the right time. They would have gotten so much more.
Always risky to hold onto players dependent on physicality and athleticism past 30 who would have already racked up so many miles. Not saying it’s a guarantee of becoming injury prone, but it’s not exactly surprising either when that happens. And Giannis is so dependent on those attributes (since he can’t shoot and is terrible from the line) that it makes getting the timing right that much more important.
Trading Jrue Holiday for Lillard
Trading Middleton for Kuzma
Waiving young draft pick players
Waiving Micic spreading his contract till 2028
And waiving Lillard and putting dead weight money 23M per year until 2030!!!!!!!!!!!!! Horrible move. The worst decision all time. Why did they change it from one year
What are they doing
It’s still easy to fix
He came back to try and lead towards the playoffs. Declaring I’m not going anywhere. I mean MIL is basically his home town. He’s the king. I’m a dubs fan and we wanted him for years. My guess is he stays until MIL trades him when he is no longer useful. Is that this off-season ? Probably not. He’s still young enough and without him they are absolutely zeros in this league. He Stays. They maybe can come back the next few season and have a semi good team at some point. His injuries will mount with age. And he’ll be sent off in year three of his extension.
Giannis unhappy. Giannis “injured”.
Giannis needs to fully heal.