{"id":529200,"date":"2026-01-11T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/529200\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T10:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T10:13:38","slug":"giannis-antetokounmpos-last-minute-block-and-steal-against-lebron-james-leads-bucks-to-win-over-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/529200\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis Antetokounmpo&#8217;s last-minute block and steal against LeBron James leads Bucks to win over Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday. Naturally, it involved Giannis Antetokounmpo doing something big.<\/p>\n<p>With the game tied going into the final minute, the former MVP notched two stops against LeBron James to key a 105-101 Bucks win. It is the Lakers&#8217; first single-digit loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>First, there was a block of the kind of lay-up usually automatic for James.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was a poke that forced a turnover, allowing the Bucks to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Antetokounmpo finished with 21 points on 9-of-11 shooting, 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 blocks, 2 steals and 4 turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>It was a frustrating game overall for the Lakers, especially for Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who fouled out for the first time this season. He got his sixth foul in that final minute by not giving Kevin Porter Jr. space to land on a 3-pointer. Don\u010di\u0107, naturally, wasn&#8217;t happy with the call, and several others.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u010di\u0107 also had a highly inefficient night, shooting 8 for 25 for 24 points. He was 4 of 6 from 3-point range, meaning he went a bizarre 4 of 19 on 2-pointers. Ten of those misses came inside the paint. He described it as a &#8220;<a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mcten\/status\/2009869096993861880?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:terrible day for me;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">terrible day for me<\/a>&#8221; to reporters after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The loss lowers the Lakers&#8217; record to 23-13, good for fifth in the Western Conference. They are now 8-8 since Dec. 1. The Bucks, meanwhile, improved to 17-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday. Naturally, it involved Giannis Antetokounmpo doing something big.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,103,123,365,185,150,368,102,121,3871,6,361],"class_list":{"0":"post-529200","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-giannis-antetokounmpo","11":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-luka-doncic","15":"tag-milwaukee","16":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","17":"tag-milwaukeebucks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-the-bucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115875938677071327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529200","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=529200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}