{"id":647606,"date":"2026-03-08T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:18:24","slug":"bucks-wont-have-giannis-antetokounmpo-available-for-sundays-game-with-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/647606\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucks won&#8217;t have Giannis Antetokounmpo available for Sunday&#8217;s game with Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/giannis-antetokounmpo-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> won\u2019t play Sunday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> continue to work him back gradually from the right calf strain that caused him to miss 15 straight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Bucks are playing for a second straight night, which explains the decision to rest Antetokounmpo. The 6-foot-11 forward had 27 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in 27 minutes Saturday as the Bucks snapped a four-game skid with a 113-99 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/utah-jazz-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Antetokounmpo has played three games since returning from the calf injury that knocked him out for five weeks. He has missed time with a right calf strain on two separate occasions this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">This will mark the 30th game Antetokounmpo has missed this season. Never before had he missed more than 21 games in a single season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Antetokounmpo, 31, is averaging 27.5 points, 9.9 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 33 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">The Bucks also will be missing second-leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/kevin-porter-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Porter Jr.<\/a> for a third straight game because of swelling in his right knee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo won\u2019t play Sunday night against the Orlando Magic as the Milwaukee Bucks continue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,123,365,121,1407,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-647606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","10":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","11":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","12":"tag-national-basketball-association","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116195171041407471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647606","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=647606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}