{"id":284516,"date":"2025-09-15T08:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/284516\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:49:21","slug":"after-giannis-leads-greece-to-bronze-medal-eurobasket-fans-and-players-show-respect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/284516\/","title":{"rendered":"After Giannis leads Greece to bronze medal, Eurobasket fans (and players) show respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After carrying Greece <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/giannis-antetokounmpo-dominates-leading-greece-171215928.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:to the bronze medal in the FIBA Eurobasket;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to the bronze medal in the FIBA Eurobasket<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> star Giannis \u00a0Antetokounmpo called his country&#8217;s third-place finish in the 24-team European tournament &#8220;probably the greatest accomplishment in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Greece&#8217;s 92-89 victory over Finland Sept. 14. Antetokounmpo scored 30 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and had six assists in 31 minutes. After the game, Giannis posted a photo on social media with his brothers Thanasis and Kostas wearing their bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Giannis shot an astounding 68.5% from the field in the tournament, averaging more than 27 points a game.<\/p>\n<p>Though it&#8217;s a third-place finish for Greece, Giannis explained why this accomplishment is different from any other in his basketball career.<\/p>\n<p>Here is additional social media reaction on Giannis leading Greece to the bronze medal:<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/bucks\/2025\/09\/14\/more-respect-for-giannis-after-leading-greece-to-bronze-medal-finish\/86156473007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More respect for Giannis after leading Greece to bronze-medal finish;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">More respect for Giannis after leading Greece to bronze-medal finish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After carrying Greece to the bronze medal in the FIBA Eurobasket, Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis \u00a0Antetokounmpo called his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,46827,103,46866,46865,31602,123,46864,3007,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-284516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bronze-medal","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-european-tournament","12":"tag-fiba-basketball","13":"tag-fiba-eurobasket","14":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","15":"tag-greatest-accomplishment","16":"tag-greece","17":"tag-milwaukee","18":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","19":"tag-milwaukeebucks","20":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115207455593414475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284516","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=284516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}