Led by Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 29-point, eight-rebound effort in only 19 minutes, the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Brooklyn Nets to snap a seven-game losing streak, their longest slide since Jan. 2014.

“It felt really good,” Antetokounmpo said, when asked about getting a win for the first time since Nov. 14. “I think guys came in and set the tone. They were on a back-to-back, we were on a back-to-back, but we were fighting for our lives.”

On top of getting the Bucks back in the win column, Antetokounmpo also made history on Saturday night. Midway through the third quarter, Antetokounmpo knocked down a corner 3, which made him the 42nd player to score at least 21,000 points in the NBA.

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“I think when I was younger, a couple years ago, I’m like, ‘Yeah, it’s another day at the office. Let me just do my job, go back home,’” Antetokounmpo said. “But as you get older, you start appreciating those moments, you don’t take it for granted.

“Coach Doc (Rivers) came in and he told me that there’s only like 11, 12 players who have ever scored 21,000 points with one team through the history of the game and you’re like, ‘Wow.” Being a kid from Greece, from Sepolia, where I grew up in a small neighborhood that not a lot of, let’s say, great things happen there or come out of there, to be able to be on this stage and 13 years later to score 21,000 points, I’m very appreciative.”

According to the Bucks, Antetokounmpo was the sixth-youngest player to record 21,000 points.

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“First of all, we gotta talk about who those guys are because I just saw those guys,” Antetokounmpo said. “We’re talking about Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Wilt (Chamberlain) and Kevin Durant. I think it’s the GOATs of the GOATs and I don’t think anybody disagrees in this room. I don’t think anyone in this world disagrees.

“Just to be on that list with them is incredible. Have I accomplished as much as them? I don’t think so. Do I have a lot of room to improve and room to grow and years to keep on writing my own legacy? Yes.”

Seeing his name next to the rest of the all-time greats on that list made Antetokounmpo think a little bit more about what he wants to accomplish over the remainder of his career. But while The Athletic suggested it might take six or seven years to get near the top of the all-time scoring list, Antetokounmpo shared that he has a different timeline in his mind.

“I think to get to the top of the scoring list, it’s not six, seven, eight years away,” Antetokounmpo said. “I think, in my opinion, it’s four years away. Four, five years away, four and a half years away.

“I think when I am going to be 35 years old and sitting in this chair and we want to have a discussion of I am in the top list of all-time in scoring and I would have talked that into existence. And not just talking it into existence because I believe that I’m going to do it. It’s something that I want to do.”

For a frame of reference, Antetokounmpo has scored 2,055 points on average in each of his last four seasons. Through 15 games this season, Antetokounmpo has scored 464 points. If he is able to stay healthy enough to reach an average of 2,000 points this season and the next four, as Antetokounmpo laid out in his postgame vision, he would eclipse the 30,000 point mark by the end of 2029-30 season.

While Antetokounmpo’s accomplishment ended up taking much of everyone’s postgame attention, Saturday’s game also marked the return of Kevin Porter Jr., who missed 19 of the Bucks’ first 20 games.

Porter started at point guard for the Bucks in the season opener and scored 10 points in the first nine minutes before spraining his left ankle and leaving the game. While recovering from his ankle sprain, Porter tore the meniscus in his right knee, which required surgery to repair.

On Saturday, Porter started at point guard alongside Ryan Rollins, who has been one of the league’s best breakout stories of the season after taking over for Porter, and put up 13 points, four rebounds and six assists on a 25-minute limit in his first game back.

“You have three ballhandlers now, you have two guys that can put incredible ball pressure on the ball and that was our plan to start the season and then Scoot (Porter) gets injured,” Rivers said of the trio of Porter, Antetokounmpo and Rollins. “It was good to see it. Scoot surprised me with his conditioning and how sharp he looked.”

Things went well on the Bucks’ first night with the trio completing a game together this season, but their effort came against the Nets, who are at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings at 3-16 and decimated by injuries. For the Bucks, now 9-12, it will feel good to put together a win and inch closer to a .500 record, but there is still a lot of work to do to make up for their struggles over the last two weeks.