{"id":164158,"date":"2025-07-11T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/164158\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T22:03:11","slug":"doc-rivers-reveals-bold-plan-to-use-giannis-antetokounmpo-as-point-guard-amid-ongoing-trade-rumors-nba-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/164158\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Rivers reveals bold plan to use Giannis Antetokounmpo as point guard amid ongoing trade rumors | NBA News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DocGiannis Antetokounmpo is in Milwaukee Bucks (Image via Instagram \/ giannis_an34) The future of Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> with the Milwaukee Bucks is still the subject of trade rumours. However, Doc Rivers has already created his grand strategy for the upcoming season. It appears that he doesn’t care about the rumours that connected the NBA legend to New York or Houston. He talked about his plans for the NBA icon during a recent appearance. <\/p>\n

Giannis Antetokounmpo to lead as point guard next season, says Doc Rivers amid trade speculation<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> have made several significant moves in recent weeks, but one of their most significant moves might be an inside one. They cut and stretched Damian Lillard to sign Myles Turner to a four-year, $107 million deal. Additionally, Giannis Antetokounmpo’s continuing presence was ensured by these deals. It also reportedly moved the team closer to contention. Doc Rivers<\/a> appeared on a recent NBATV broadcast at the Vegas Summer League and discussed his plans for the Milwaukee Bucks star’s future.He also stated that he made a drastic choice after Damian Lillard<\/a>‘s injury the previous season. He made the Greek Freak the main ball handler for the team by giving Giannis Antetokounmpo the point guard responsibilities.The team was reportedly taken aback by the move. He further acknowledges that when he came up with the idea, his coaching staff questioned his sanity. He stated: \u201cThe second half of the year, when I put the ball in Giannis\u2018 hands, we did it by default. I\u2018d love to say, I\u2018m this genius and I thought, \u2018Hey let\u2018s play Giannis at the point guard spot\u2019.\u201dHe then revealed:\u201cWhen I brought it up with our coaches, they thought I had lost my mind. When I brought it up with Giannis, he thought I had lost my mind.\u201d\"Giannis<\/p>\n

Giannis Antetokounmpo is a remarkable player (Image via Instagram \/ @giannis_an34)<\/p>\n

He further admitted that the plan reportedly wasn’t well thought out. However, this is probably the reason why the Milwaukee Bucks were able to start the postseason as the fifth seed in the Eastern Conference<\/a>, despite Damian Lillard’s injury forcing his hand.Then, further explaining his plan for the NBA legend<\/a>, he said:\u201cNobody\u2019s pressuring Giannis. So it allowed us, even against Indiana, to bring up the ball pressure free.\u201dThe tactic has a chain effect. Due to this decision, the Milwaukee Bucks’ shooters can get clean shots because Giannis Antetokounmpo attracts defensive attention. Also read: Giannis Antetokounmpo tours Athens with IShowSpeed, stunned by huge crowd outside hotel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo is in Milwaukee Bucks (Image via Instagram \/ giannis_an34) The future of Giannis Antetokounmpo with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,20620,30710,123,102,121,3871,367,6,1783,4163],"class_list":{"0":"post-164158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bucks","10":"tag-damian-lillard-injury","11":"tag-doc-rivers-plan","12":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-myles-turner","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-trade-rumors","19":"tag-point-guard"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114836865456573369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}