{"id":698615,"date":"2026-04-04T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698615\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:10:16","slug":"nba-confirms-giannis-antetokounmpo-declined-to-play-in-bucks-scrimmages-investigation-still-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/698615\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA confirms Giannis Antetokounmpo declined to play in Bucks scrimmages, investigation still ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shams Charania: An NBA spokesperson in response to its <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\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Milwaukee Bucks&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>-Giannis Antetokounmpo investigation: \u201cThe NBA\u2019s Player Participation Policy investigation into the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo is ongoing and certain facts remain in dispute. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/free-agency-begins-top-nba-224221954.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:The investigation has found that the Bucks scheduled Giannis to work out last week in three-on-three scrimmages as part of his return-to-play process, but he declined to participate.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;The investigation has found that the Bucks scheduled Giannis to work out last week in three-on-three scrimmages as part of his return-to-play process, but he declined to participate.&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The investigation has found that the Bucks scheduled Giannis to work out last week in three-on-three scrimmages as part of his return-to-play process, but he declined to participate.<\/a> There is a disagreement as to whether the team requested that Giannis participate in a group workout earlier this week, and the league is continuing to monitor the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/free-agency-begins-top-nba-224221954.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Twitter&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shams Charania: An NBA spokesperson in response to its Milwaukee Bucks-Giannis Antetokounmpo investigation: \u201cThe NBA\u2019s Player Participation Policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3775],"tags":[108,7,103,6626,102,121,3871,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-698615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-antetokounmpo","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-milwaukee","13":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","14":"tag-milwaukeebucks","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116348965737618849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698615","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=698615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}