During an interview with NBA writer Sam Yip of HoopsHype, Milwaukee Bucks forward Bobby Portis revealed what superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo is really like behind the scenes. According to Portis, Antetokounmpo “acts like a big kid” all the time.
“Yeah, that’s my boy,” Portis said about Antetokounmpo. “Man, it’s hard to tell because every day is something new. But, he’s always messing with somebody each and every day. In our (Bucks) training room, he kind of acts like a big kid. We have all these Nerf guns, shooting each other. And so, people come in and it’s definitely funny, early in the morning time people just wake up at nine in the morning and they get shot in the face. That’d be funny.”
Portis and Antetokounmpo helped the Bucks win the 2021 championship over the Phoenix Suns in six games. Both players will go down as Milwaukee legends for delivering a title to the city.
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The Bucks won 58 games in the regular season and were the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference. However, Milwaukee lost to Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat in the first round of the 2023 NBA playoffs in five games. Antetokounmpo hurt his back in Game 1 of the series and missed Games 2 and 3. The former Defensive Player of the Year got injured just 10 minutes into Game 1 in Milwaukee.
Antetokounmpo put up 26 points, 10 rebounds and 13 assists in Game 4 and 38 points, 20 rebounds and three assists in Game 5 for the Bucks. However, it wasn’t enough to beat the Heat, who made it all the way to the 2023 NBA Finals, where they lost to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets in five games.
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The Bucks re-signed Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez this offseason in free agency. They also replaced head coach Mike Budenholzer with Adrian Griffin. Antetokounmpo and Middleton met with Griffin during the interview process.
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