{"id":697380,"date":"2026-04-04T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697380\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:48:35","slug":"antetokounmpo-says-hes-healthy-and-wants-to-play-as-bucks-continue-to-keep-him-on-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697380\/","title":{"rendered":"Antetokounmpo says he&#8217;s healthy and wants to play as Bucks continue to keep him on the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PFZ5EI7NZ5GZLPB5AYLMRAV5OE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MILWAUKEE \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo says he\u2019s healthy and wants to play even as the Milwaukee Bucks continue to say the two-time MVP is too injured to take the floor.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5N3P35EYM5CB7EPN5C5GSQOFFE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Antetokounmpo missed a 10th straight game on Friday night against the Boston Celtics due to what the team has described as a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-injury-0c1bff47a47c48849d07bc93eaaa93f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">left knee hyperextension and bone bruise.<\/a> Antetokounmpo hasn\u2019t played since landing awkwardly during a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bucks-giannis-antetokounmpo-7909d5f651b255abcf82c4193a317c8e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 15<\/a> victory over the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Giannis Antetokounmpo says he\u2019s healthy and wants to play even as the Milwaukee Bucks continue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[75174,2889,7,87723,103,102,121,3871,6,82226,446,43263,14942,3101,82227,22097,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-697380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-2026-nba-schedule","9":"tag-athlete-injuries","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bkn-bucks-antetokounmpo","12":"tag-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukee","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-milwaukeebucks","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nba-2026-news","18":"tag-nba-basketball","19":"tag-nba-highlights","20":"tag-nba-latest-news","21":"tag-nba-news","22":"tag-nba-schedule-2026","23":"tag-nba-scores","24":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116345109358633063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697380","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=697380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}